Sam Soman
EF1
Todays the day!!
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Sincerely, Jeff D.
2024-04-15 EVENT: NE/KS/OK
- Thread starter Mike Smith
- Start date
JamesCaruso
Staff member
Looks like they’ve run into some cap suppression ?
Warren Faidley
Supporter
Still 3 hours of shooting light, so the chase is still on. The sig. torn. parameters are nuts if something goes up, but the cloud cover is a problem. Maybe a retreating DL or a wave will set things off. There are cells trying to go up within the sig-tor outlook!
Robert Rohloff
EF3
Pretty good hail on the storm near Swenson TX with some rotation showing up now. Maybe we finally have something.
Warren Faidley
Supporter
JamesCaruso
Staff member
Interesting that an SPC meso discussion (#443) came out for NEB 4 hours ago, with a 95% probability of watch issuance. But a watch never materialized.
Mike Smith
EF5
About 15 minutes ago, a huge TCU floated northwest across ICT.
SPC has meso'd western Kansas: Storm Prediction Center Mesoscale Discussion 448
SPC has meso'd western Kansas: Storm Prediction Center Mesoscale Discussion 448
Mike Smith
EF5
Matt Zumbrunn
EF2
Looks like they starting to go south of Garden City, KS
Warren Faidley
Supporter
All's well that ends well.... so far. SVR storm passed within 29 miles of my original forecast in KCDS, so I'm OK with that. Don't think CAPE was sufficient enough to take advantage of / overcome sheer. Hard to guess what will occur later tonight and tomorrow, but danger still exists for nighttime tornadic storms. Congratulations to everyone who made the decision to stay put today.
Matt Zumbrunn
EF2
Storm approaching Dodge City is all by itself.
Warren Faidley
Supporter
Timing on this storm is not good for DDC, hope it waits until it's north of the city to go tornadic.
Matt Zumbrunn
EF2
Watching a chaser and he just said the structure is amazing. Living vicariously through others tonight.
John Farley
Supporter
As of 10:45 p.m. Central time, there has not been one tornado warning anywhere in the US. There certainly could be tornadoes, maybe even strong ones, overnight, but from a storm chasing standpoint, this day has been a bust tornado-wise. Glad to hear some are seeing good structure, nonetheless.
Dan Robinson
EF5
I broke off of the DDC storm east of Jetmore. Didn't see anything interesting with it from the south/southeast. Dryline squall line to the west looks like it is trying to spin things up in several places, but I need time to sleep and get east for tomorrow.
