I haven't listened to that show in a while - do they still spend 60% of their shows trying somehow to bring up Global Warming so they can all pat each other on the back for reinforcing each others beliefs? I always used to think that show was such a shameful waste of good air-talent, as they'd take extremely intelligent and experienced scientist guests and then badger the hell out of them with one dimensional rhetorical fallacies about their own pet beliefs until the guests were audibly annoyed. It was like watching Glenn Beck, only the theatrics weren't as good.
Is there a good source article that says this? Also, how many F-5 tornados were confirmed on April 27th? There is so much misinformation in the media about the number of confirmed tornadoes vs. LSRs, and the number of violent tornadoes.
151 confirmed by damage surveys as of yesterday. I compiled a list of the tracks confirmed by damage surveys, and provided the link in another thread, but here it is for anyone that missed it.
Saw that but the audio was just making my ears bleed. Still have not heard many first-hand accounts of the impact that the power outages in some communities from the earlier storms might have had on the situation. I've heard antectodal references to NWS transmitters being out in some locales and spotty electricy/internet in others. Any one heard anything specific?
Thanks very much John! So this is outbreak is not bigger than the Superoutbreak?
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I'm still amazed there were not more EF-5 ratings, that's just my opinion though.
The spreadsheet he compiled were all tornadoes from April 26th-April 28th... that's more than the 24 hours. I also believe that there will be more continued tracks once the WFOs can coordinate a little better. I believe we're still a far way from knowing if this breaks the super outbreak.
It's now 75. "Of the missing, 22 are now classified as Level 1. Mayor Walt Maddox said that means that person who reported them missing had spoken with them within two weeks of the April 27 tornado."
I was sitting in Jasper, Al by 1pm and can tell you that the very early MCV that went through, crippled communications. I worked Hwy 78/I-22 from Hamilton to Birmingham and had trouble obtaining data through Verizon all day long. It made for a very dangerous day in that area.
Pretty simple - if you're talking a 24-hr span, the SO is the worst outbreak on record. If you want to make it a 72 hour span, then this one was the worst. Depends on how you want to judge them. But it's subjective either way. The weather world doesn't operate in timeframes, those are human inventions.
Well, regardless of the records, I'm most interested to see a technical report from NOAA on the instant event. It certainly deserves one. The technical report on the 1974 outbreak was a gem and well-described the synoptic conditions that preceded such an event. (It was sent from the Secretary of Commerce, presumably to his immediate superior, but I doubt Tricky Dickey circa 1974 would have been much interested in 700mb temperatures)
TR's died years ago. They are "Service Assessments" now... http://www.weather.gov/os/assessments/index.shtml
