Memorial Day Weekend Outbreak 2008

[KWT]

Wow thats a very impressive mesocyclone there, on the higher resolution radar I've seen you could see an area of calm, the presenter said it was more akin to a eye then a tornado calm!

[wbug1]

3 severe thunderstorms moving through Georgia. They look very strong.

2130 UNK DUBLIN LAURENS GA 3254 8292 PUBLICS WORKS BUILDING DAMAGED, RADIO ANTENNA BLOWN OVER, AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS DOWN IN DUBLIN. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN COUNTYWIDE. (FFC)

Cells popping in Texas in addition to the strong cell already present.

Tornado SE of Enid shows clear hook and TVS as far as I can tell from NWS vance, ok radar.

[HarlequinBoy]

Fox News keeps confusing watches and warnings.

I think watches and warnings should be left to local media.

[HarlequinBoy]

There was hail nearly the size of golf balls on highway 61 on the south side of Tunica a few minutes ago. Nothing too exciting but the ground was nearly white.

[CrazyC83]

Tornadoes now heavily wrapped in rain...

[wbug1]

1950 UNK HOMESTEAD MIAMI-DADE FL 2548 8047 HOMESTEAD PD REPORTED POWER OUTAGE THROUHOUT FLORIDA CITY AND ALONG 288ST BETWEEN 137 AND 147 AVE (MFL)

2040 UNK HOMESTEAD MIAMI-DADE FL 2548 8047 HOMESTEAD PD REPORTED WIND DAMAGE AT 1 SPEEDWAY BLVD (MFL)


2124 175 DELRAY BEACH PALM BEACH FL 2646 8009 SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AT 542 PM AT 6TH STREET AND ATLANTIC AVE (MFL)

[CrazyC83]

Orange sky, dark purple core...likely a large violent tornado.

[Bunkertor]

Orange sky, dark purple core...likely a large violent tornado.

Where Crazy ?

[wbug1]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
623 PM EDT SAT MAY 24 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LOXAHATCHEE
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 21 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VILLAGE OF GOLF...
DELRAY BEACH...
BOCA RATON...
AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

[HarlequinBoy]

6 tornado reports today.. two in South Dakota.

[Bunkertor]

OK folks should be carefull when seeing price reduced pork

[CrazyC83]

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1009
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0607 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2008

AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS SD AND SRN ND...SWRN MN...EXTREME NWRN IA

CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 348...

VALID 242307Z - 250100Z

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 348 CONTINUES.

CONTINUE WW ALONG/AHEAD OF NEWD MOVING OCCLUDED FRONT AND DRYLINE AS
OUTLINED BELOW. POTENTIAL WILL PERSIST FOR DISCRETE SUPERCELLS WITH
TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND OCCASIONAL DAMAGING GUSTS...GREATEST
THREAT FOR TORNADOES BEING WITH RELATIVELY DISCRETE TSTMS SUCH AS
THOSE NOW EVIDENT FROM HAND COUNTY SD NWWD TO CORSON COUNTY.
ADDITIONALLY...CONDITIONAL SVR POTENTIAL MAY EXPAND/SHIFT EWD INTO
PORTIONS SWRN MN AND NWRN IA DURING NEXT SEVERAL HOURS ALONG AND W
OF SFC WARM FRONT. ANOTHER WW MAY BE REQUIRED SHORTLY OVER PORTIONS
ND.

22Z SFC MESOANALYSIS SHOWED FRONT FROM NWRN MO NWWD ACROSS SWRN IA
AND SERN SD...MERGING WITH COLD FRONT INVOF PIR...WITH OCCLUDED
FRONT EXTENDING NWWD TO SFC LOW VICINITY NRN PORTION SD/MT BORDER.
BLENDED DRYLINE AND PACIFIC-ORIGIN COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM TRIPLE
POINT NEAR PIR SEWD ACROSS HOLT/BOYD COUNTIES NEB. PRIND NARROW
CORRIDOR OF WARM SECTOR AIR IN BETWEEN DRYLINE AND WARM FRONT...AS
WELL AS VERY NARROW PLUME OF DIABATICALLY DESTABILIZED AIR INVOF
OCCLUDED FRONT...WILL SUPPORT CONTINUED POTENTIAL PROGRESSIVELY
COLDER AIR ALOFT WITH NWWD EXTENT -- AND WITH PROXIMITY TO ERN MT
UPPER LOW -- WILL OFFSET COOLER SFC AIR ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN FAVORABLY
STEEP LOW-MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES AND AT LEAST MRGL BUOYANCY...WITH
MLCAPES UP TO NEAR 500 J/KG OVER SRN ND AND MUCH OF CENTRAL/NRN SD.
LOW LEVEL VORTICITY...HODOGRAPH SIZE AND STORM-RELATIVE INFLOW EACH
SHOULD REMAIN MAXIMIZED INVOF OCCLUDED/WARM FRONT...AS WELL AS ON
PACIFIC FRONT/DRYLINE.

STRONGER SBCINH EVIDENT IN RUC SOUNDINGS OVER ERN ND/SWRN MN REGION
-- ALSO INDICATED BY BILLOW CLOUDS IN VIS IMAGERY -- MAY RESTRICT
EWD EXTENT OF SFC-BASED THREAT...ALTHOUGH STG LOW LEVEL WAA AND NEWD
MOTION OF WARM FRONT MAY DESTABILIZE AIR MASS BRIEFLY BEFORE
NOCTURNAL/DIABATIC COOLING COMMENCES.

..EDWARDS.. 05/24/2008


ATTN...WFO...MPX...FGF...FSD...ABR...BIS...UNR...

43089977 44570082 45460208 46140242 47430291 47520042
47149932 46199674 44309557 42939604 43059723

[Cyclenall]

Does anyone have a link to that large and dangerous multi-vortex tornado that happened at 5:30 pm ET (the video)? I didn't find anything on YouTube.

Here is a really awesome tornado going through it's life. It transforms into a very thin rope at the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GfoHdAhkmU

[wbug1]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
721 PM EDT SAT MAY 24 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 720 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DOLPHINS STADIUM...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 19 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
DOLPHINS STADIUM...
OPA-LOCKA...
AVENTURA...
NORTH MIAMI...
MIAMI SHORES...
MIAMI BEACH...
AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

[wbug1]

The Miami news site have finally put up the severe TS warning, hail already fell just north in Del Ray area.

Might be a widespread power outage there.

[RL3AO]

Since the first tornado, the cell has moved about 50 miles.

[Bunkertor]

Breckenridge under the gun

[wbug1]

Intensifying storm with what looks like rotation near Shaufler, TX and Maryneal, TX with the storm also affecting Sweetwater, TX.

[CrazyC83]

Rare special update from the SPC:

SPC AC 242328

DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK CORR 2
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0628 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2008

VALID 252322Z - 251200Z

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS THE PLAINS FROM PARTS OF
W TX TO ND...

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS PARTS OF FL PENINSULA TO
SERN GA...

UPDATED TO EXTEND THE SLIGHT RISK SWWD INTO W TX...NWD INTO CENTRAL
ND AND EXTEND A SLIGHT RISK NWD INTO SERN GA

...DAKOTAS...
SLIGHT RISK HAS BEEN EXTENDED NWD INTO CENTRAL ND TO ACCOUNT FOR
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SPREADING NNEWD THIS EVENING. FOR MESOSCALE
INFORMATION AND SEVERE WEATHER DETAILS...REFER TO SPC MESOSCALE
DISCUSSIONS AND RELEVANT WATCHES FOR THIS REGION.

...W/NW TX INTO SWRN OK...
SLIGHT RISK HAS BEEN EXTENDED SWWD INTO THIS REGION TO ACCOUNT FOR
RECENT STRONG TSTM DEVELOPMENT ALONG RETREATING DRY LINE...WHICH
EXTENDED FROM WEST CENTRAL OK SWWD TO THE TRANSPECOS AREA OF SW TX.
LATEST MODELS SUGGEST DRY LINE WILL CONTINUE TO RETREAT WNWWD
THROUGH AS SELY LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS TO 40-50 KT THIS EVENING
THROUGH TONIGHT. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES /UP TO 8 C/KM/ AND
MODERATE INSTABILITY SUPPORT A POTENTIAL FOR VERY LARGE HAIL IN
ADDITION TO STRONG WIND GUSTS. WAA/ASCENT ALONG AXIS/NOSE OF THIS
JET SHOULD SUPPORT ADDITIONAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE
EVENING...WITH MODELS INCLUDING THE SREF SUGGESTING DEVELOPMENT
FARTHER NWWD INTO NW TX AND SWRN OK BY LATE EVENING. FOR MESOSCALE
INFORMATION AND SEVERE WEATHER DETAILS...REFER TO SPC MESOSCALE
DISCUSSIONS AND RELEVANT WATCHES FOR THIS REGION.

...SERN GA/NERN FL PENINSULA...
EFFECTIVE BULK SHEAR RANGING FROM 40-50 KT ACROSS ERN/SERN GA WILL
DEVELOP SWD INTO NERN FL THIS EVENING AS SRN EXTENT OF ERN SEABOARD
TROUGH CONTINUES TO AFFECT THIS REGION. THIS COMBINED WITH MODERATE
INSTABILITY WILL SUPPORT ORGANIZED STORMS...WITH ACTIVITY TRACKING
SEWD WITHIN WNWLY FLOW ALOFT. FOR MESOSCALE INFORMATION AND SEVERE
WEATHER DETAILS...REFER TO SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSIONS AND RELEVANT
WATCH FOR THIS REGION.

..PETERS..

[CrazyC83]

Quinter tornado an EF4:

000
NOUS43 KGLD 242216
PNSGLD

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
416 PM MDT SAT MAY 24 2008

...FRIDAY AFTERNOON TORNADO RATED EF4...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONDUCTED A STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
ACROSS GOVE AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES FOR THE TORNADOES THAT OCCURRED
FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ONE TORNADO PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF QUINTER KANSAS. THREE HOMES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED...AND
TWO VEHICLES WERE MOVED APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS. THE TORNADO PRODUCED
TWO INJURIES...BUT NO FATALITIES. BASED ON THIS DAMAGE...THE TORNADO
WAS ASSIGNED A RATING OF EF4 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. EF4
TORNADOES PRODUCE WIND SPEEDS UP TO 200 MPH.

THIS IS THE FIRST EF4 TORNADO RATED IN THE TRI-STATE AREA SINCE
JUNE 15 1990 WHEN A TORNADO MOVED ACROSS CENTRAL HITCHCOCK AND
NORTHERN RED WILLOW COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA.

HERE IS LIST OF THE TORNADOES THAT OCCURRED ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS
AND EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO FRIDAY...

TORNADO 1...RATED EF4...LARGE WEDGE TORNADO DEVELOPED 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF QUINTER AND DISSIPATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
QUINTER...TORNADO WAS ON GROUND FOR 10 MILES...THREE HOMES WERE
COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE...TWO
VEHICLES WERE THROWN ABOUT 200 YARDS. TORNADO CROSSED INTERSTATE
70 AROUND MILE MARKER 102 AND DESTROYED A VEHICLE...RESULTING IN ONE
INJURY

TORNADO 2...RATED EF2...TORNADO DEVELOPED 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
QUINTER AND DISSIPATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TASCO...TORNADO WAS ON
GROUND FOR 16 MILES...ONE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED WHEN A
MOBILE HOME FLIPPED INTO IT...OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE...
EIGHT MILES OF POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED

TORNADO 3...RATED EF0...TORNADO ON GROUND FOR FIVE MINUTES 12 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GOVE

TORNADO 4...RATED EF0...TORNADO DEVELOPED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
STUDLEY AND DISSIPATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF STUDLEY

TORNADO 5...RATED EF0...TORNADO DEVELOPED 7 MILES NORTH OF QUINTER
AND DISSIPATED 8 MILES NORTH OF QUINTER

TORNADO 6...RATED EF0...BRIEF TOUCHDOWN THREE MILES WEST OF LEOTI

TORNADO 7...RATED EF0...BRIEF TOUCHDOWN FIVE MILES WEST OF WESKAN

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO REFINE THE DAMAGE
ASSESSMENTS AND TORNADO TRACKS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.

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MENTZER