re: Southeastern Severe Weather Thread: 12/9-12/10

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Then a tornado warning should have been issued. Plenty of times a tornado is never confirmed in a tornado warning, just a radar indicated one.
Not sure who all would have done things differently since it occurred so late

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That's why I always say to treat storms like that (a line with high winds and embedded rotations) like a tornado warning when it rolls through. The NWS, nor anyone else, is going to catch 100% of those type tornadoes. Even if they do, by the time the warning is issued and pushed to the public that type tornado will have already done its damage and gone.

I've seen confirmed tornadoes that had a duration of less time than it takes for the radar to update a new scan. If the couplet didn't form on radar at just the right time, the radar never saw it. It just is what it is.

Never trust those QLCS storms with high winds and embedded rotations. Of course, the biggest threat they pose to life is to people in vehicles or in mobile homes. If you're driving or live in a mobile home, treat those storms like you would a tornado warning. Otherwise, those brief spin-ups aren't generally killer tornadoes, and that's good because we will never catch them all.