06/09/04 NOW: CO, WY, NE, KS, OK

[Larry J. Kosch]

NWS has issued a TORN watch for the high plains of CO, WY, NE and KS:

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SOUTHEAST WYOMING

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 140 PM UNTIL 800 PM MDT. TORNADOES, HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER, THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

Numerous (10 so far) severe thunderstorm warnings have been issued in the watch area. Post your storm discussions here. 8) LJK.

Update: The TORN watch is being replaced by a Severe Thunderstorm Watch directly to the east of the former TORN watch area. LJK.

 

[Stuart Robinson]

A tornado has been reported East of Denver - also a MD has been issued on top of the watch box WRT to tornado outlook

* AT 417 PM MDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO APPROXIMATELY
5 MILES NORTH OF BENNETT...OR ABOUT 33 MILES EAST OF DENVER...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

 

[David Schuttler]

Tornado Warning Lincoln and Payne Co's Oklahoma

 

[Lance Maxwell]

5 tornado warned counties just east and northeast of us here in Norman, OK now.

 

[Lance Maxwell]

Significant damage to a mobile home near Chandler, OK -- half the home was ripped in half. This was shown by Channel 9's chopper.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

For any who are interested, as since OUN discussed it in a warning decision update, you can view both Terminal Doppler radar as well as Phased Array radar imagery online at http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/hondl/publi...wr_lowprf.shtml ... This page, as well as the PAR itself, is experimental and thus not always real-time... However, from my experience, the TDWR has been real-time.. Phased array is off and on, just as in OUN radar (OUN is NSSL's radar .... dual-pol if I'm not mistaken.. OKC's operational radar is KTLX).

 

[Kevin Scharfenberg]

Very classic tropical/mini-supercell event in Oklahoma. Really a good feel for what it must be like to watch the weather in Houston or Miami. Very difficult to warn for these, because the rotation tended to develop first at very low altitudes, increase quickly and then dissipate, all within a few minutes.

Looks like at least 3, possibly up to 5 brief tornadoes touched down -- one west of Chandler and one near Agra, probably near Lake Stanley Draper, and possibly touchdowns in Ada and Sasakwa.