Mike Smith
There is considerable damage in the Hutchinson-Reno Co. area with electrical transmission lines down and semi's blown over. At least one business has lost its roof.
6/15/2009 NOW CO/KS/OK/NE
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Jacob Ferden
EF4
TOR warned cell developing a nice hook west of Pierre, SD.
EDIT: Confirmed tornado 2 miles SE of Hayes, SD.
EDIT: Confirmed tornado 2 miles SE of Hayes, SD.
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Jason Haller
EF2
Well I cant put the link up because I am on my mobile phone. A Mesonet in Manhattan reported a wind gust of 125 mph at 20:03 and a 80 mph wind gust at 20:13. This was reported on the weathrunderground website. I am hearing reports of good sized trees down all around town and Power out on the west side. I live 4 blocks east of the mesonet and while those winds seem a litte high than what I observed there is no doubt that winds at least 70 mph rolle through about that time.
Jeff Snyder
EF5
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The peak wind at the ASOS location was 59 kts; interestingly, MHK picked up 1.36" of rain in 20 minutes (0052-0112 UTC). Was the observation site that reported 125 mph a private weather station? I wonder if it was getting some aerodynamic enhancement owing to it's mounting location (e.g. Bernoulli enhancement over a roof, etc). 125 mph is a doozy of an ob, and I would expect severe damage (roof removals, etc) in areas that experienced such winds. I'm not saying that the 125 mph ob was bogus, as it, apparently, was not necessarily near the location of the ASOS site.
Impressive velocities on the bowing line in eastern KS moving into western MO. There are occassional leading-line QLCS-type areas of strong rotation too.
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Jim Saueressig
EF5
Well I followed the storm from the warned cell at Florence to home to find massive amounts of damage county wide. There are stretches of power poles snapped off and lots of trees broken and snapped. I will post more in a bit in the reports thread when I get time. Gotta see if I can help get the trees off of the neighbors cars....
Greg Higgins
Supporter
Can anyone confirm a tornado in Cass County, Missouri? Based on GR3 it looks promising and I have relatives all through the area.
Jeff, saw your comment about leading edge rotation and agree. That is one heck of a bow as it pushes east through Cass County.
Jeff, saw your comment about leading edge rotation and agree. That is one heck of a bow as it pushes east through Cass County.
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jshields
i've been watching that cell, except ironically for the last 45 min to an hour and it has had some odd, random storm motions! this was the same cell that was basically stationary for well over an hour up in north central south dakota west of the missouri river. then it started moving southeast, and then south for a while and now its moving east/northeast as it is weakening pretty rapidly
in fact if you look at the digital total rainfall on grlevel3 it clearly shows the path of the storm. where it sat, radar is estimating nearly 11" of rain!!
fplowman
Hey Greg,
The NWS said they had a report of one 9 miles south of Louisburg, ks. I live in Louisburg and was at home when this storm hit. WOW! I was yelling out to my neighbor everything was going to be ok and the wind picked up to the point that my storm door wouldnt close and it took all my strength to keep it from taking it off the hinges for about 3 minutes. I was scared, no joke. I know that wind was 60+. Nasty.
The NWS said they had a report of one 9 miles south of Louisburg, ks. I live in Louisburg and was at home when this storm hit. WOW! I was yelling out to my neighbor everything was going to be ok and the wind picked up to the point that my storm door wouldnt close and it took all my strength to keep it from taking it off the hinges for about 3 minutes. I was scared, no joke. I know that wind was 60+. Nasty.
Andrew Francis
EF3
EDIT: nvrm I had a browser problem.
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John Lavin
non-warned storms moving through Douglas county now. Saw a nice structured shelf cloud about 15 minutes ago.
Tampa Dave
EF0
My God. The entire cluster based on satellite had an unbelievable bowing out structure. No doubt many are w/out pwr...and by the way that thing looks I'll bet people would be happy w/ that. What a dangerous squall line!
D. Hayes
Is anyone else watching this bow over Emporia/Eureka, KS? It has a evil cyclonic twist still showing on the radar loop starting at 3:10AM CST. It should be hitting Ottowa here any minute.
edit: Sorry forgot it was the 16th now so this should be a nowcast for the 16th.
edit: Sorry forgot it was the 16th now so this should be a nowcast for the 16th.
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