Furthest from SPC 2% or more Tornado Score

[James Wilson]

I was curious how far away from a SPC risk area someone has scored a tornado. Friday I bagged one in NE KS while the risk was 250 miles away in Western Nebraska and WY. Kansas was completely taken out of any tornado risk.

I am sure people have scored tornadoes states away.

 

[Michael Snyder]

A tornado cam to me in Kent, WA 1998 (F0, although never officially reported). I then chased the cell east towards the cascades and got hit with 1" hail.
By far the largest hail I have seen in my life in WA state.

Ive also seen a waterspout in Hawaii, but maybe someone in Alaska has the record by seeing a tornado there.

 

[James Wilson]

I take it there was not a risk those days from the SPC?

 

[Dan Robinson]

I saw three tornadoes on a zero tornado risk day in Illinois on July 1, 2013. They were reported, but only one made it into Storm Data.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=459160

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20130701

http://stormhighway.com/july12013.php

 

[Marcus Diaz]

April 20, 2010 for me. Just west of Amarillo, TX.

 

[joel ewing]

For chasers like me that don't live in the alley anymore, we're forced to chase the days we've allotted ourselves in the alley before we have to return home. No specific answer from me here, except that I absolutely was taught the lesson not to turn my nose up at a day that has sub-marginal potential. You'd be surprised at what the weather will sometimes throw at you on low-risk days. It's not unusual to see a nice funnel cloud or two (and I mean for-real ones....not wish-funnels or conjure-nadoes), and occasionally a brief tornado. Low-risk days sometimes equates in having far fewer chasers to contend with, too.