5/6/08 NOW: SD/NE/IA/KS/OK/TX/NM

[John Peters]

There is a pretty nice right mover SW of Odessa with a tight couplet and what appears to be an RFD showing up on radar. To me it looks like there was a pretty strong meso that is currently occluding. It doesn't look like a tornado has been reported yet, but this is the best looking storm today has produced so far.

Elsewhere it looks like a bowing segment has produced a swath of wind damage in NE Nebraska.

 

[Scott Lincoln]

Strong rotation at the apex of a bow echo also just passed over Broken Bow, NE. At the time I was really surprised that North Platte WFO did not issue a tornado warning as it looked like a classic bow echo tornado case with a spectrum width spike and everything. Seems to have passed the city and I haven't seen any reports of significant damage thus far. To me it looks like the Northern Plains have enough shear for a brief formation of a mesocyclone or maybe tornado, but big hail is probably going to be the story tonight. Even down south... I'm not sure that there is enough shear to produce more than a small handful of spinups.

 

[David Wolfson]

Currently about 4 miles west of Caprock, TX, watching broken line of discrete cells with some rotation. Light-moderate inflow. Lead storm now north of Lorenzo seems to have improving LP structure. Will pursue north of Ralls toward Cone.