re: Severe Weather 4/19 Thread | Multiple Tornadoes in Midwest | At least 2 fatalities

For reference to OKC metro

Boy Norman got lucky with that detour the storms took south.

You run a straight line on the damage paths and the storm damage looks completely different.

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Boy Norman got lucky with that detour the storms took south. You run a straight line on the damage paths and the storm damage looks completely different.

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The whole day was just strange. To start we’ve been in drought but you could take a knife from SW to NE Oklahoma and the SE side of that line is fine but the NW side of that line is very dry.

So they had like 20% chances in the morning but we’ve had so many 50% chance or higher just disappear so everyone figured at 20% there was no risk.

Then it came and was massive hail. Some had 4 unique cells that dropped hail so not just 1 hail event at a location. That was strange.

Then the tornados, again the cap has been impossible to break this year so even with chasers and wall to wall coverage, most didn’t think the cap would break even while chasing the storms.

Then they came but had very different patterns than normal. A few towns had tornado to west yet at last mile it went south then back north around. Or just lifted and reformed just north of town.

So many strange occurances yesterday.

NWS Norman

@NWSNorman
Survey crew in McClain County (near Cole) just uploaded this picture back to the office. Four people were in this house when the tornado hit. All survived by sheltering under a mattress in their mud room.

Line seems to be forming east of us.

HRRR showed the northerly pop ups while still missing a majority of DFW and reforming into a line just SE of DFW later on.

I guess we will see how well it did today.

Gotcha... I am in OKC too. we need to hook up for a beer. [Not Bud Light]

Early picture of Cole tornado which this same complex caused all the other tornados. What a scary yet beautiful picture

Last night I posted the audio clip of helo pilot from News9 who was covering tornados cussing about his windshield getting hit by hail. He was ok and landed but here’s the pics: