4/25/07 NOW: KS / OK / MO / AR

[Jordan Hartley]

Barton Co in W Missouri needs to watch out. The storm is taking on a flying eagle look to it. Storm has really gained strength in the last 15 mins. Look for this one to start spinning like the cell to the north. Any confirmed tor reports out of Barton/Cass count yet?

Vort Max just to my se still showing up on vis sat and radar nicely putting off quite the show if you like these kinda things.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

The hook looks like it's moving toward (or just east of) EAX. Wonder if it will hold together long enough to make it to Pleasant Hill.

Edit - lots of new convection to its south and now its looking like the warning dropped.

 

[David Draun]

Defininitely not LP... These aren't supercells, they are just showers along the front. No lightning. So basically cold-air funnel type spinups are reaching the ground, no threat other than to your doghouse, and not able to be detected by radar. So NWS just blankets the entire area, making sure the funnels don't go down with a "miss" and that the public ignores real tornado warnings.

While they may not be supercells by definition, they're not plain-old cold air funnels either. I'm looking at the SRM display and there is some evidence of circulation on two of those tornado warned cells in central IL. These circulations are now radar indicated according to the warning text.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

The Harrisonville storm keeps trying to cycle. TVS is indicated off and on and it still has a nice shape on radar, even though it's embedded with lots of other stuff. The storm over my place in KC is trying to intensify a bit too. Lots of good lightning/thunder now. Cloud bases are low and there's just tons of moisture in the air. Wish we had a bit better wind, though.

 

[Jordan Hartley]

I think its safe to add IL to the topic lol. Tornado reported on the ground at 456 6 miles south of Kinkaid moving ne at 30 mph. 8 confirmed tornado reports in IL so far. Also the cell I was talking about earlier in sw MO fell apart due to the tor wrn cell that cut it off and is now rotating. This storm is screaming to the ne at 50 mph Another cell to its se seems to want to do the same thing this storm is doing. Both of them fired out ahead of the line moving in a nnw direction which is what I was seeing with the storm that started this whole topic this morning.

Edit: SW MO cell is now embedded and apart of a line the strecthes N/S across w MO and into AK before turning back sw in TX.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Looks to me like the Harrisonville storm has recently merged with the surrounding cells. Wild shape - but it's regained a clean source of inflow and I see a brand new meso a little further south from the last.

Edit - the Kansas City storm is really looking cool. It's pouring here, but I can see the inflow very well from my front porch and the base is barely sitting off the ground. It's embedded too, but still some beautiful black clouds to look at.

 

[David Draun]

Those tornadic showers in IL, are really getting their acts together. It is a surprise they aren't producing any lightning even with those intense precip cores.

 

[Jordan Hartley]

St. Clair is under the gun again. New storm embedded in the line takin on a sup look to it on radar. The line seems to have split which would make this storm the tail end charlie. Its fighting off convection to its se not too confident that things will get exciting.

 

[Dick McGowan]

The Harrisonville storm keeps trying to cycle. TVS is indicated off and on and it still has a nice shape on radar, even though it's embedded with lots of other stuff. The storm over my place in KC is trying to intensify a bit too. Lots of good lightning/thunder now. Cloud bases are low and there's just tons of moisture in the air. Wish we had a bit better wind, though.

Darin and I were on this storm (South side of Harrisonville) at the time it had the TVS. Got some nickel-sized hail, and saw an interesting lowering, but nothing significant. Should have been on it earlier, but was messing around with junk in Miami county.

The bases were extremely low, and the rain never seemed to end.