5-8-14 Arkansas tornado

[kmreid]

We had a tornado last night that hit less than 5 miles from where I live. Didn't see that one coming at all. It was just a nasty, rainy mess for most of the night, so this surprised me a bit.

http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/...n-pope-co-thursd/18622/edGdhoQBBkC6koyEtbqb2Q

 

[Jeff Hawkins]

We had a tornado last night that hit less than 5 miles from where I live. Didn't see that one coming at all. It was just a nasty, rainy mess for most of the night, so this surprised me a bit.

http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/...n-pope-co-thursd/18622/edGdhoQBBkC6koyEtbqb2Q

Sounds similar to a storm that hit near me back in 2011. I was home that evening and there was a SVR warned storm passing by not TOR warned. No problem until just as the storm ended by me the power went out and it was dark the rest of the night. I got up the next morning and power was still out. I decided to drive around (sun just coming up) and found trees down in yards west of where I was. I later got word that an EF-0/EF-1 tornado had damaged an area WSW of my location. I eventually was able to see the damage path, a SW-NE track through several suburbs west of me. Fortunately no injuries or severe damage. Here's a local CBS News item about it.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/23/confirmed-tornadoes-hit-downers-grove-mount-prospect/

 

[kmreid]

That is about the extent of the damage here as well. The track, according to the article, was a little over a mile.

I was sitting there watching it and there was a small bow echo that managed to push forward from the original squall line. It was when that bow echo broke off from the line of storms that the northern part of the bow echo managed to spin up. I mentioned that to someone last night and NWS basically said the exact thing. I was at least glad that I understood what had happened and how it managed to materialize so quickly, but it was after the fact when I went back and looked at a few screen captures that I put two and two together.