2012-04-30 MISC: KS/OK/TX

[cstrunk]

I did not expect to check out the radar and see so many impressive supercells this evening! Several tornado reports (one near Greensburg) already with a long evening ahead for many folks.

We currently have four tornado warned supercells southwest of ICT (several are very impressive), one nice tornado warned supercell (with confirmed tornado reports near Nowata, OK) in northeast OK, and some gargantuan hail producers in the TX panhandle moving into western OK, down I-20 in TX.

 

[Andy Jackson]

Yeah, I was watching some of the streamers it looks like those storms (ks) had cooler temps aloft that may have made the difference compared to the Amarillo area storms. There was some photogenic structure down south for a while at least.

 

[Warren Faidley]

Any word on Medford, OK...?

This warning contains some interesting wording.... and thus worth posting.


* AT 920 PM CDT...TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO AND
RADAR DETECTS A TORNADO ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF MEDFORD. THIS
TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM IS QUICKLY
APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. THOSE RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF INJURY
OR DAMAGE IN AND AROUND MEDFORD SHOULD BE PREPARE FOR ANOTHER
STORM. WINDS OVER 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

W.

 

[cstrunk]

Everything I've read/heard so far is that the tornado just missed town to the northwest. There were a few structures with some damage, and a barn that was destroyed just west of town. Power lines blocked the road west and east of town per KFOR.

 

[cstrunk]

That Medford beast has been amazing to watch on radar. Occluding/reforming meso's, and now the circulation is so large/persistent that it has fought off a heck of a linear storm that crashed into it's rear. The supercell is trying to absorb the strong linear storm, something I don't remember happening too often, if ever.

 

[Dan Robinson]

An MCV is beginning to take shape there. The current reflectivity hole reminds me of the North Carolina "Tornadocane" from 4/16/99.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/coolimg/nc_storm/index.html

 

[John Peters]

No writeup from Norman on the damage surveys of the tornadoes in N OK?

 

[Ben Holcomb]

They had a graphic on their site and issued some LSR's but it doesn't appear that they posted a huge write up.