6/4/08 NOW: MD/VA/WV/PA/OH/KY/IN/IL/IA/MO/KS/NE/CO/OK

[cstrunk]

Tornado sirens going off in Red Oak, not good for that town. I was listening live to KCSI in Red Oak and the live stream just went to static. Not good.

*Edit - They are back on the air now..

*Edit - Reports of 100 MPH winds just north of Red Oak, IA.

 

[Joel Wright]

Meso looks to be taking dead aim on Villisca Iowa.

 

[cstrunk]

Incredible area of rotation with the supercell northwest of Lincoln, if this thing holds together it may track close to the Omaha metro area... at this time it may go just south of there. It looks like it will be chugging along for some time.

Supercell east of Red Oak, IA still looks very dangerous and is turning ESE. Still reports of wall cloud and baseball size hail with this storm.

Supercell west of Osceola, IA is still tornado warned but is looking less impressive. The Red Oak supercell may eventually take this area over.

 

[david diehl]

Tornado warnings up for North western Indiana, no reports of touchdown though at this time

 

[MatthewCarman]

Storm Spotters are reporting a wall cloud with the storm near Osceola. Also winds in excess of 100 MPH,Large Hail and Tornadoes are possible with the Redoak suppercell.

 

[David Draun]

Scattered storms with a few supercells now popping in IL/IN along the warmfront. At the same time, lake breeze front now sinking slowly SW toward the approaching warmfront. Might be an interesting low level shear situation setting up. Throw in a couple FFD from the supercells now moving northward. The one near Pontiac, IL has a nice look on radar. It has turned right and is likely anchored on the boundary, look out anyone in the path of this one.

But Chicago and NW of there will remain storm free as usual.

 

[MatthewCarman]

StormSpotters reporting a large rain wrapped torndao with the suppercell east of Redoak.

 

[cstrunk]

Lincoln Supercell is now diving southeast towards the city. The city of Lincoln is under a tornado warning. Storm has taken a dramatic turn to the southeast.

 

[MatthewCarman]

A possible tornado with a area of rotation moved through Corning IA and a second area of rotation moving into Corning. A stormchaser is reporting on Ch8 a tornado is on the ground with a huge debris cloud moving towards the town of Corning. He says it is a multivortex quarter mile wide tornado. He is saying it is a very destructive tornado.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Jeff Patrowski is the one reporting the tornado on Ch8. He says debris is falling now and it is rain wrapped at times. Repeating a large destructive tornado is moving towards Corning.

EDIT: The tornado has missed Corning thankfully.

 

[Heidi Farrar]

Here is live streaming video from KETV in Omaha; they're covering the IA & NE storms.

http://www.ketv.com/video/9312602/index.html

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

The gate to gate on the storm moving over Ceresco and towards Omaha is, well, quite impressive. Unless it's some weird radar artifact -- I mean, it's a good 7 miles wide and spinning all the way up to the top radar scan. I'm wondering if Ceresco is still there.

 

[Jim Zandonai]

That storm in SW IA had very impressive Velocity readings earlier and a consistent hook echo.. Classic cell..
The cell west n south of Omaha is absolutely huge and has to have excellent structure..Wonder if Mike Hollingshead is on it..Baseball size hail reported earlier or larger.. with VIL earlier insane acc to nexrad attributes..lightning extremely intense reported..The velocity showing a fantastic image...

 

[Anthony Petito]

The cell that approached Omaha (that also dropped tornadoes in Ulysses, Bee and Polk) bowed out and quickly moved across Omaha. Looks as though moisture is feeding in and backbuilding across extreme SE NE/NE KS.

 

[MatthewCarman]

The massive suppercell moving towards Afton Iowa now has a very broad exspansive area of circulation around 1 mile wide. A large tornado could be on the ground right now according to CH8. This circulation is moving towards Afton. This area is now under the gun from it's second tornadic storm of the day.