Tornado Season 2024

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I heard a report yesterday during Ryan Hall Y’all that the Taco Bell in Winchester was “leveled to the foundation” and that the adjacent Walmart also suffered damage. Anyone from around there? It also looks like the speedway would have been right in the path. Anyone have any more info from the Winchester area? I’ve checked correlation coefficient data and local storm reports, but the radar sites anren’t ideally located so the data is hard to interpret.

I think @DeadeyeChrista'sdad is from Winchester. Haven't seen him post today. Hope he's okay.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

I think @DeadeyeChrista'sdad is from Winchester. Haven't seen him post today. Hope he's okay.

Thank you. I'm fine. So far I haven't found any damage at my place, but I leave for work before 5. Down the road about a mile to the west, the sheriff couldn't go to work until someone (presumably) drove in through the field and got him. Snapped power pole in his front yard, and wires in the highway (32) stretching halfway to Farmland. Heaven only knows what Winchester looks like.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Thank you. I'm fine. So far I haven't found any damage at my place, but I leave for work before 5. Down the road about a mile to the west, the sheriff couldn't go to work until someone (presumably) drove in through the field and got him. Snapped power pole in his front yard, and wires in the highway (32) stretching halfway to Farmland. Heaven only knows what Winchester looks like.

Glad you're okay!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

That is a good photo.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I guess I can scratch "Photograph a Funnel Cloud" off my bucket list. My back yard, just outside of Selma at 7:40 pm on Thursday. We had no damage at all, and we didn't even realize that anything happened, until we heard sirens seemingly everywhere.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

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I guess I can scratch "Photograph a Funnel Cloud" off my bucket list.

The only one I ever saw in person was when I was a little kid, out in Oklahoma. I was 5 or less. I can still see them out, across that prairie—my dad was “storm chasing” before it was a thing.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

The only one I ever saw in person was when I was a little kid, out in Oklahoma. I was 5 or less. I can still see them out, across that prairie—my dad was “storm chasing” before it was a thing.

I spent part of a summer in Kingfisher OK. Never saw a tornado, but I did see an awesome dust devil.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

An old friend from dang near to W. Virginia posted this today. The first mailbox after the guardrail is mine. I SWEAR I didn't see that Friday morning.

 

[foszoe]

An old friend from dang near to W. Virginia posted this today. The first mailbox after the guardrail is mine. I SWEAR I didn't see that Friday morning.

Looks like they got tired and needed a nap. Like DoggyDaddy at 7pm.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I spent part of a summer in Kingfisher OK. Never saw a tornado, but I did see an awesome dust devil.

I remember dad talking about Kingfisher but I don’t know if I’ve ever been there.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Looks like they got tired and needed a nap. Like DoggyDaddy at 7pm.

Pfft. Nap time is approximately noon, but no later than 2 p.m.. 7 p.m. is almost bedtime.

 

[foszoe]

Pfft. Nap time is approximately noon, but no later than 2 p.m.. 7 p.m. is almost bedtime.

As long as you are up for the day now

 

[DoggyDaddy]

As long as you are up for the day now

Got up at 0310 this morning. Didn't want to, but the dog and cat had other ideas. Got my corned beef in the oven and made a stealth dumpster run to get rid of some yard cleanup debris already. There will be resleep (totally not a nap) after breakfast.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

An old friend from dang near to W. Virginia posted this today. The first mailbox after the guardrail is mine. I SWEAR I didn't see that Friday morning.

Way down there on the right there's a white car. There USED to be a house there. My ex said the owners were in the basement, and watched the whole house lift up, explode, and blow away. Now THAT would be some pucker factor.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Thankfully this stuff moved west after an early start here. There were text book storms out in OK, NE, IA a few days ago. Here’s how April looked.

 

[littletommy]

The only one I ever saw in person was when I was a little kid, out in Oklahoma. I was 5 or less. I can still see them out, across that prairie—my dad was “storm chasing” before it was a thing.

I saw one up around Lafayette when I was a kid, I remember thinking that it looked exactly like the one on the Wizard of Oz, sky was the same color and everything.
I remember the 74 outbreak and watching one go through Louisville, the sky was green! One of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.

 

[ghuns]

...There were text book storms out in OK, NE, IA a few days ago...

There were also some very odd ones.

Near Loveland, OK there was a HUGE anticyclonic(spins the wrong way) tornado. This type of tornado is usually small, weakish. But this thing was a monster and spun around a weakening cyclonic tornado like a satellite.

It was moving east and then swung around and moved southwest and disappeared.

It was part of this monster storm. Thing looked like a hurricane over land...

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

There were also some very odd ones.

Near Loveland, OK there was a HUGE anticyclonic(spins the wrong way) tornado. This type of tornado is usually small, weakish. But this thing was a monster and spun around a weakening cyclonic tornado like a satellite.

It was moving east and then swung around and moved southwest and disappeared.

It was part of this monster storm. Thing looked like a hurricane over land...

I saw that. One account had radar specs showing that spin was something like 15,000 off the ground. Most are no where meat that, I guess.

Luckily (it was reported) that thing was over sparsely populated country.

 

[ghuns]

I saw that. One account had radar specs showing that spin was something like 15,000 off the ground. Most are no where meat that, I guess.

Luckily (it was reported) that thing was over sparsely populated country.

Following these storm chaser freaks and weather weenies who dissect radar on Twitter is a hell of a rabbit hole to go down.