04/10/05 TALK: Central Plains

A very chaseable 20 mph...but, its right over the metro. That's an awful place to be chasing a storm. But, it is a nice storm. Not sure how likely it is that it drops a tornado...but could be worth a shot to anyone who stayed back in Norman once it exits the city.
 
I've chased in Metro areas, many times. It's a absolute pain in the neck with traffic and red lights and I'm sure OKC is no exception. But it's a Sunday evening, and I'm sure the traffic is not that bad - and am sure you could find a nice spot to view the storm just outside the city. Let's hope it stays together as it exits...

..Nick..
 
Seems to be a general weakening trend to the discrete cells in central OK now. The two non-severe storms south of OUN have all but disappeared now, and the cell over OUN seems to be losing some strength at the moment as well.
 
TOR has just been issued for Oklahoma County ... strong rotation has developed on radar just southwest of Harrah. The hook was extremely well defined in the last scan, but it's a bit distorted in the most recent scan. A tornado can definitely drop out of this one...

..Nick..
 
Tony Laubach recently phoned to report witnessing five tornadoes in N. Central Kansas (assuming this was the Ogalla, KS storm along I-70; but don't quote me on that). Additional reports to follow.

Pardon my "--" deleted message in the REPORTS colum; it has been moved here.

..Blake..
 
Multiple spotter reports of power flashes in the Harrah vicinity. Doppler continues to indicate strong gate to gate shear with this tornadic supercell now located over Harrah. We should hear a TOR for Lincoln county within the next few minuites...

..Nick..
 
It's rapidly weakening and is now just about dead. Although the latest severe weather statement just came out about five minuites ago and it continued to indicate the possibility of "weak" tornadoes in the Warwick areas. But I pretty much find this to be impossible now...

It was a pretty long-lived storm.

..Nick..
 
I did a quick look at the chances of seeing a WATERSPOUT in Kansas as several chasers, including myself, saw in Trego County over Cedar Bluff Reservoir.

Some Kansas Geography Facts...
Data collected from Netstate (Kansas)

KS Total Area: 82,282 sq. miles
KS Total Land: 81,823 sq. miles
KS Total Water: 459 sq. miles

Using that information, assuming 1 tornado touching down anywhere in Kansas, the chance of seeing a WATERSPOUT in Kansas is...

.56%

Someone else can calculate the odds of seeing a tornado (in Kansas), let ALONE seeing one over water in Kansas... fun little stat I thought I'd add since several of us were driving over the dam road when the dam tornado touched down over the dam water. :lol:
 
Originally posted by Verne Carlson
Wow, those are low odds Tony!

For those of you who didn't get to see it, here's a pic:
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The image below is of the same feature looking almost exactly 3 miles to the due east of Verne and Tony's location on the dam. This perspective shows the well established RFD occlusion. I don't like the "waterspout" labelling, that's just the meteorologist in me... but this is obviously a supercell tornado, very weak albeit, but an obvious different process from a waterspout off the Floriday Keys, for instance. Just a supercell tornado over water, that's all ;-)

<img src=http://www.underthemeso.com/albums/2005apr10/DSC2382.jpg width=650>

More photos are available at this link: April 10th, 2005 Tornadoes

This album continues to be updated with more photos and eventually some pretty amazing video stills of the 10 SW Russell, KS tornado shot by my partner, Fritz Kruse.

Mike U
 
Originally posted by Mike Umscheid
I don't like the \"waterspout\" labelling, that's just the meteorologist in me... but this is obviously a supercell tornado, very weak albeit, but an obvious different process from a waterspout off the Floriday Keys, for instance. Just a supercell tornado over water, that's all ;-)
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Mike,

First of all, the image wasn't working prior to me posting this..

Second, I would agree with your above post, but still, its hard to not call it a waterspout! :lol: A tornado over water in Kansas! Still pretty dam cool! 8)
 
Originally posted by Tony Laubach


Mike,

First of all, the image wasn't working prior to me posting this..

Second, I would agree with your above post, but still, its hard to not call it a waterspout! :lol: A tornado over water in Kansas! Still pretty dam cool! 8)
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Should be working now, I changed the album name after I copy/pasted the link and didn't realize the former album name was in the url.. Thanks for the catch! As little water as there is in western Kansas, it truly is an amazing phenomena... whatever lakes we do have in western kansas... they are quite small! I kinda wish we were on the dam dam, cuz that's just dam neat... from our downstream dam perspective, it just looked like a dam funnel cloud, and never realized it had any dam vortex on the dam water beneath it... certainly dam interesting, that's for sure :lol:

Mike U
 
I like that perspective you got on the storm Mike, nice pic!

Here's a video of that event...

After watching this, tell me if it doesn't remind you of a scene from a certain movie (hint: only the other sister and a cow are missing) :shock: :D

>> CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO!<<
 
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