Historic outbreak Sunday: The aftermath

[x-y-no]

Wow ... just fired up GRW and took a look at the radar out of KEAX ...

The base velocity signature on that cluster of cells heading through SE Kansas toward Kansas City looks real nasty, and the trailing cell is building big time ...

Hope everybody is paying attention and staying safe.

[WindRunner]

Storms really firing over SE Kansas right now - already have a report in of 1.75" hail, and radar currently indicating a couple of mesos out there. Also some extremely high VILs - as in values of 73!

[6SpeedTA95]

Things are really starting to pop in kansas and just to my west

[CrazyC83]

PDS Tornado Watch 74 issued for eastern Oklahoma, southern Missouri and western Arkansas.

[6SpeedTA95]

Tornado Watch
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 74
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1247 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006

ARC007-015-033-047-087-131-143-OKC001-021-035-037-041-061-077-079-
091-097-101-105-107-111-113-115-117-121-131-135-143-145-147-
130400-
/O.NEW.KTSA.TO.A.0074.060312T1847Z-060313T0400Z/

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 74 IN
EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 7 COUNTIES

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

BENTON CARROLL CRAWFORD
MADISON WASHINGTON

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

FRANKLIN SEBASTIAN

IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE
SEQUOYAH

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

ADAIR CRAIG CREEK
DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA
OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA
PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA
WAGONER WASHINGTON

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

HASKELL LATIMER LE FLORE
MCINTOSH PITTSBURG

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BARTLESVILLE...BENTONVILLE...
BERRYVILLE...BRISTOW...CHARLESTON...CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...
EUREKA SPRINGS...FAYETTEVILLE...FORT SMITH...HUNTSVILLE...JAY...
MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...NOWATA...OKEMAH...OKMULGEE...
OZARK...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...ROGERS...SALLISAW...
SPRINGDALE...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VAN BUREN...
VINITA...WAGONER AND WILBURTON.

$$

[cheezyWXguy]

o boy, it looks like the line is going to extend south pretty rapidly...I'd say that by 5 today, I maybe in the the path of a severe thunderstorm(hopefully nothing tornadic)

[WindRunner]

o boy, it looks like the line is going to extend south pretty rapidly...I'd say that by 5 today, I maybe in the the path of a severe thunderstorm(hopefully nothing tornadic)

I doubt it - there still isn't any precip south of the KS/OK border, and the nearest stuff to that border took about two and a half hours to become severe. I know you'd like to see some stuff, but I think you're out of luck today. If you're lucky, you might get a little isolated thunderstorm, but nothing severe (IMHO).

[senorpepr]

o boy, it looks like the line is going to extend south pretty rapidly...I'd say that by 5 today, I maybe in the the path of a severe thunderstorm(hopefully nothing tornadic)

I doubt it - there still isn't any precip south of the KS/OK border, and the nearest stuff to that border took about two and a half hours to become severe. I know you'd like to see some stuff, but I think you're out of luck today. If you're lucky, you might get a little isolated thunderstorm, but nothing severe (IMHO).

I concur... the conditions that far south aren't as ripe.

[CrazyC83]

o boy, it looks like the line is going to extend south pretty rapidly...I'd say that by 5 today, I maybe in the the path of a severe thunderstorm(hopefully nothing tornadic)

That is my prediction; I wouldn't be surprised to see the supercells reach all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Even up in central Ontario (where I am), it is warming up rapidly - into the 50s - and the front is supposed to be just north of here (separating the snow and 20s from the rain and 50s+).

[simplykristi]

In our area, we jumped from 55 to 67 in one hour. Storms are off to my south and west (50 miles).

Kristi

[cheezyWXguy]

o boy, it looks like the line is going to extend south pretty rapidly...I'd say that by 5 today, I maybe in the the path of a severe thunderstorm(hopefully nothing tornadic)

That is my prediction; I wouldn't be surprised to see the supercells reach all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Even up in central Ontario (where I am), it is warming up rapidly - into the 50s - and the front is supposed to be just north of here (separating the snow and 20s from the rain and 50s+).

I doubt the cells will reach the gulf...if I get anything Ill probably be on the tail end

[WindRunner]

Funnel cloud reports coming in now for the southernmost cell in SE KS - but tornado warnings are out for all three. These storms are also very moist! VILs on all three are high and they are dropping at least 2" of rain an hour on some spots as well as 1.75" hail being reported. These cells should stay well south of KCMO area, luckily.

[senorpepr]

Funnel cloud reports coming in now for the southernmost cell in SE KS - but tornado warnings are out for all three. These storms are also very moist! VILs on all three are high and they are dropping at least 2" of rain an hour on some spots as well as 1.75" hail being reported. These cells should stay well south of KCMO area, luckily.

Actually, a couple of those cells are projected to go toward Cass County, MO... which is the southern suburbs for KC.

[simplykristi]

Severe weather in far western metro KC now.

Kristi

[WindRunner]

Funnel cloud reports coming in now for the southernmost cell in SE KS - but tornado warnings are out for all three. These storms are also very moist! VILs on all three are high and they are dropping at least 2" of rain an hour on some spots as well as 1.75" hail being reported. These cells should stay well south of KCMO area, luckily.

Actually, a couple of those cells are projected to go toward Cass County, MO... which is the southern suburbs for KC.

Oh - I see they are now. Couldn't see those storms from the Tulsa radar, and I just noticed that KEAX stopped updating data about an hour ago. Let's see - radar up, and, yep, KC is going to get nailed! My error there . . . don't know what happened with GR3.

[cheezyWXguy]

dang! 2nd storm of the day for KC!!! what a day for them!

[x-y-no]

Funnel cloud reports coming in now for the southernmost cell in SE KS - but tornado warnings are out for all three. These storms are also very moist! VILs on all three are high and they are dropping at least 2" of rain an hour on some spots as well as 1.75" hail being reported. These cells should stay well south of KCMO area, luckily.

Actually, a couple of those cells are projected to go toward Cass County, MO... which is the southern suburbs for KC.

Oh - I see they are now. Couldn't see those storms from the Tulsa radar, and I just noticed that KEAX stopped updating data about an hour ago. Let's see - radar up, and, yep, KC is going to get nailed! My error there . . . don't know what happened with GR3.

Strange ... I'm getting up to date data from KEAX.


Cell headed towards Iola looks impressive. New tornado warning up for that one.

[senorpepr]

Man... if I didn't have to work today, I'd take a trip back to KC--where I was born and raised.

[WindRunner]

Strange ... I'm getting up to date data from KEAX.


Cell headed towards Iola looks impressive. New tornado warning up for that one.

Yeah, it's coming fine now. I just think the software jammed up. I've that copy sitting on KEAX since 9am this morning, so it was probably just getting tired

And that Iola cell has to have a pretty bad tornado in there - that SRV is not pretty.

[CrazyC83]

Man... if I didn't have to work today, I'd take a trip back to KC--where I was born and raised.

ahhh, don't you wish we could go back to the blue law era when everything was closed Sundays?