Kevin Myatt
EF2
There looks to be 2 additional MCS lines/clusters lined up to rake the same area where the supercell tracked.
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Kevin Bowman
EF4
Looks like joplin just missed the most dangerous part of the storm but its still tracking to the sw. if i were in diamond, Granby or Neosho id be taking tornado precautions now
Bart_Comstock
EF5
I agree they are still reporting a tor on the ground with this cell.
John MacKay
EF2
I'm assuming since nothing has come out on the extent of the damage yet, nothing major happened (such as an injury or extensive damage). We heard one of the news stations in Wichita report it, but they didn't give us more than the town that got hit. We'll see later on Friday.
I'm surprised that Greenwood county cell actually did something (I thought it was only going to be the token radar indicated rotation we get with these strong summer fronts), because when it was there, it looked like a cell that was briefly going to rotate then maybe be a hailer. I just blew off the possibility of a long-track tornadic supercell because one of the SPC outlooks said marginal shear was in place.Blake Allen
I live in Scammon and I don't know of any major damage or injuries in town from the storms last night, although there was quite a bit of tree damage and possibly other damage to structures that I haven't seen or heard about.
I was caught somewhat off guard by the storms last night and didn't chase or spot any aside from what I could do from my house, and while I didn't witness any wall clouds or funnel clouds from my house, I couldn't see all of the updraft base due to trees. Judging from radar, storm reports other than the one that mentioned Scammon, and what I could see, I think the main area of rotation stayed to the west of town. Scammon is only about a quarter to a half square mile in size, so if anything did touch down in the town itself it couldn't have been far from where I was. At my house the worst we got from the tornadic storm was penny to nickel size hail -- there wasn't much wind. I think most of the wind damage in town came from severe straight line winds associated with the bow echo that blew through 2 or 3 hours after the supercell, but I'll be very interested to see the info from the damage survey to find out the paths of any tornadoes in the area.
The worst damage that I know of in the area was to a mobile home that was destroyed near McCune. Unfortunately news reports say that there were two people injured in the mobile home and that there was a third injury elsewhere in the area.
Blake Allen
Darin Brunin
EF5
Here are some damage photos taken in SE KS by NWS SGF and a small survey/ case study from ICT.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/050630.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/cgi-bin/vuesto...MBER=2005070200Similar threads
