re: More Central U.S. Severe Weather: 4/30/24 - 5/3/24

This right here, and there is plenty of it, is wishcasting at its best.

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Meteorologically speaking, the EF scale alone is very limited. I’m surprised there isn’t a sister scale that rates strictly by the storm intensity. Something like an evolved version of the original F scale.

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Even attempting to do what this person suggests would be terribly flawed. How do I know? Because I've watched storms on radar that I was convinced put down violent tornadoes only to see the resultant damage and be emphatically proven wrong. Radar can and will trick you. The reality is we aren't great with wind, and we aren't great with wind on radar and how it relates to what is actually going on on the ground. That's where we have a whole lot to learn. To rely on radar presentation alone (especially with questionable data or poor storm placement in relation to said radar) would be essentially useless and would create even more "drama".