Monday, May 24th! Nebraska!

[spadilly]

man, that would be one of the dream teams of storm chasing.

Howie Blustein was on most of the tornado specials/videos i watched as a kid, Josh Wurman was the one who lead the TIV around in the first season of Storm Chasers from the DOW, and Karen was the girl in the truck with him most of the time.

[wxdata]

Head for the mid-Mississippi Valley for the really big storms (according to SPC)

[wxdata]

OKC warning media/emergency managers

"We are concerned about the possibility of tornadic supercells impacting the OKC Metro/I-35 corridor at rush hour. "

[srainhoutx]

Upper Air analysis suggests a 105 kt jet streak at 500mb over NM at this time. Supercells appear to be very likely this afternoon.

[wxdata]

For those interested, here's a video briefing from OKC's NWS

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/media/oun/player.html

[wxdata]

PDS Tornado Watch to be issued for central and western OK.

Mesoscale Discussion for that area:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0507.html

[srainhoutx]

Getting concerned that this may well be like May 1999 where an EF5 struck Moore, OK.

[spadilly]

the way this is setting up is unbelievable.

http://www.tornadovideos.net/live has live feeds for storm chasers out there today (including Tom Skilling from WGN)

[tornado girl]

Getting concerned that this may well be like May 1999 where an EF5 struck Moore, OK.

I was living in northern OK during that time. Was very scary to watch the F5 tornado head to OKC/Moore where a lot of my relatives and friends live (318 mph winds were recorded with this tornado). Also, I will never forget Gary England on TV telling everyone that you need to be BELOW ground to survive this tornado. Some of those killed were found in their interior bathrooms/bathtubs. Let's hope today is not a repeat of what happened on May 3, 1999.

[wxdata]

New Mesoscale Discussion for OK

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0508.html

[wxdata]

New balloons going up from Stillwater, Mannford and NE OKC in the next few minutes.

[wxdata]

Vortex 2 sounding from Mannford OK at 1730z shows a strong cap...but a tremendous potential positive area in the hail growth region.

[wxdata]

FTW NWS:

"We did a special 18Z Raob. The sounding indicated that the Cap is very strong. It will be extremely difficult to break (this far south.")

[wxdata]

SPC mid-afternoon update

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outloo ... _2000.html

[wxdata]

New Mesoscale Discussion for North-central Texas

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0510.html

[wxdata]

Tornado on ground west of Medford OK at 3:45pm

[srainhoutx]

Spotters report Large Wedge Tornado...

[wxdata]

Great Base Velocity shot of the tornado near Medford. Notice the spiraling bands of velocity into the tornado.

[srainhoutx]

Getting concerned for areas S and W of OKC. That area looks very worrisome as the afternoon/evening progresses and moves E.

[spadilly]

this is unreal.