Multiple Day Events

[Kevin Crawmer]

Seeing as that yesterday was a high risk, today could be a high risk, and tomorrow looks to be at least a moderate risk I was wondering if any of you historians could bring up some of the biggest multiple day outbreak events. This pattern suggests that Sunday could possibly be an elevated risk day more for the MCS that should develop over Iowa for wind/hail.

 

[Chris Hayes]

Two of the more notable back to back day events that I can remember/know of would be June 15 and 16, 1992, and May 29 and 30, 2004. Both of them 2 day tornado outbreaks resulted in well over 100 tornados.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

The first couple weeks in May, 2003 were hot in Missouri/Kansas. The last week in May, 2004 was nuts. March 9-13, 2006 was another superoutbreak type situation. April 3-4, 1974 was the mac-daddy superoutbreak. 2004 resulted in a lot of chasers actually getting tired of seeing tornadoes.

 

[Chad Ringley]

The first couple weeks in May, 2003 were hot in Missouri/Kansas. The last week in May, 2004 was nuts. March 9-13, 2006 was another superoutbreak type situation. April 3-4, 1974 was the mac-daddy superoutbreak. 2004 resulted in a lot of chasers actually getting tired of seeing tornadoes.

I'm not sure that is possible I still hang on to 2004 since it was the last time I was able to chase the summer in the Plains. From May 12 to June 12, there was a ton of action.

May 3-10 in 2003 was crazy indeed. I chased 8 days in a row, and bombed finals because of it!

 

[Shane Adams]

Surprised no one has mentioned May 4-5, 2007.

 

[John Peters]

The most extensive mulit-day event i can think of is May 1-10 2003. May 4 alone was one of the larger single day events I've seen. Also two consecutive days with large strong/violent tornadoes in the OKC metro area is pretty unprecedented.

Tornado count for the sequence:
Total: 401
F-0: 212
F-1: 123
F-2: 38
F-3: 20
F-4: 6
F-5: 0

Now even these statistics don't hold a candle to the single-day super outbreak on 4-3-74

Total: 148
F-0: 19
F-1: 33
F-2: 32
F-3: 34
F-4: 23
F-5: 6

 

[Chris Nuttall]

2004 resulted in a lot of chasers actually getting tired of seeing tornadoes.

Not even I could make it out of that week without seeing a tornado. That finally ended my streak of 40 chases without a tornado. A lot of those were crap chases when I worked in TV, but they still count.

May 29, 2004, is by far-and-away my best chase day yet. Isolated cells with 200 miles between them...moving 25 mph through great country....After I abandoned the Harper County, KS storm after dark, I was still able to catch up with the one the moved across all of Oklahoma that day. I caught that one on the east side of Tulsa and followed it east to the Arkansas state line.

I remember it really well because the last tornado from that storm came relatively close to a Boy Scout camp that was having a 4-day event over the Memorial Day weekend. My dad was there and I was giving him constant updates.