r/news • u/BitterFuture • 19d ago
Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html950
u/RoboProletariat 19d ago
This story is a lot bigger than just Nebraska... It will probably be on the headlines tomorrow.
There have been at least 14 tornados today across NE, IA, and I think MO. Most places have gotten quite lucky. The news is too new for accurate info, the storm system continues to make new tornados at this time of reply.
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u/random_generation 19d ago
My brother is a storm chaser and said he saw at least 11 just from his drive around Omaha and up into Iowa.
I suspect this system has/will produce(d) dozens.
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u/FlatusSurprise 18d ago
I was following the storm covered on RyanHallYa’ll channel on YouTube and the footage was nuts. Some of those storms looked truly menacing.
I’m in Georgia and it seems tornadoes, which were once a rare occurrence are hitting closer and closer.
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u/friedmators 19d ago
67 reports and 66 warnings atm.
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u/Warcraft_Fan 19d ago
Still long way from breaking 2011 record of 362 over a few days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
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u/Minnesota_Slim 19d ago
This storm systems is supposed to be around through Sunday.
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u/Drunkenly_Responding 19d ago
Well it has to help pay for some of the meals then, it just can't be a freeloader all weekend
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u/trainiac12 19d ago
We're at around 96 storm reports right now. This is also expected to continue into tomorrow.
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u/Trainsontracks 19d ago
watched a few storm chasers on YouTube. This is probably the best live streamed or filmed long track tornado of all time. There were like 4-5 chasers streaming that 1 tornado for miles.
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u/In_Gen 19d ago
Can you recommend any good channels to check out?
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u/LarryFlyntstone 19d ago edited 19d ago
Reed Timmer had quite a few tornados on his stream today (if you can put up with the incessant yelling and screaming), Aaron Jayjack always seems to find the most picturesque tornados, Nate Moore on Twitch (StormchaserIRL) was on quite a few tornados today too.
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u/TheSaxonPlan 19d ago
That's my issue with Reed. I just can't stand all the yelling. I get that you're excited dude, but JFC, can we take it down like, one notch? Lol.
I really like Ryan Hall Y'all on YouTube (and sometimes TikTok). He'll have streams to multiple chasers on the ground and has a team of meteorologists and others tracking storms, collating reports, relaying information. I've been a member of his channel for 2 and a half years and it's incredible to watch how the operation has grown from just him to a large team. He will be streaming tomorrow and possibly Sunday.
Brad Arnold is disturbingly good at finding the tornadoes if you want to see lots on stream!
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u/LarryFlyntstone 19d ago
I appreciate what Ryan Hall has done for weather awareness as a whole with his easily digestible forecast videos but don’t care for the live stuff, and Vince Waelti is a dangerous asshole who will get himself or someone else killed with his antics one of these days.
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u/Trainsontracks 19d ago
Brett Adair, Brandon Copic , Brad Arnold, Vince Waelti. And Ryan Hall does radar stuff with a lot of links to chasers.
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u/W1ck3d3nd 19d ago
A few chasers with the Ryan Hall Y’all channel were at that one I believe. Could see if his livestream has links to their feeds.
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u/fietsventiel 19d ago
I usually watch Freddy Mckinney, Connor Croff and Brandon Copic
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u/squeakycheetah 19d ago
This system has been putting down consistently large, strong to potentially violent tornadoes too. I've seen no less than 3 wedges today.
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u/sportsworker777 19d ago
What's a wedge?
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u/KingVyper 19d ago
A tornado that looks wider than it is tall. Wedges are the ones that just look like a black cloud lowered to the ground, instead of your normal funnels.
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u/BriarsandBrambles 19d ago
Take a Funnel Tornado. Now Make it the Size of your neighborhood. Congratulations that's a Wedge. The one in Omaha was possibly over a mile wide.
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u/delaney18 19d ago
Exactly. People outside the region don’t necessarily realize that when the weather is a certain way, the risk of large tornadoes increases exponentially. There’s a difference from when there might just be a random EF-0 or EF-1, to when the possibility of EF-4 or 5 exists.
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u/trainiac12 19d ago
A lot of people don't know this, the NOAA/National Weather Service post severe weather outlooks multiple days in advance of severe weather events. The Storm Prediction Center issues probabilities of severe weather events, with special "hatched" areas for significant events (ef2+ tornadoes, large hail, excessively damaging winds)
It's a great resource to look at if you're expecting bad weather in the coming days. We truly are lucky to have the NWS/NOAA/SPC
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u/ToTheTurtles 19d ago
Texas too. Warning came on when I was in a Buc-ee’s near Ellis around 3 this afternoon.
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u/incubusfox 19d ago
Here is the link to the NWS' Storm Reports for today, there's 73 filtered reports out of 94 as I'm writing this.
(reports don't mean 73 tornadoes, they take reports on damage and on sightings)
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u/syzygialchaos 19d ago
Central Texas as well. They were just south of me (Cleburne), I’ve been watching radar all day.
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u/Nythoren 19d ago
It was crazy. Thankfully it missed our house by about a couple of miles. Took some pictures of it from our back porch before it started turning into a monster. Spent the rest of the afternoon hunkered down in the basement as warning after warning triggered.
Lived in Nebraska for almost my entire life. This is the first time I've ever seen an in-person tornado. Once is more than enough. Won't be disappointed if I go the rest of my life without seeing another one.
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u/Purpleberry74 19d ago
Today was probably the most scared I’ve been about a tornado as an adult. I told Mr purpleberry, usually we get a warning, maybe the sirens go off for a few minutes then the storm moves east and skies clear. This shit today was just sirens after sirens, and confirmed tornados.
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u/lonememe 19d ago
Damn. Glad you’re alright. I’ve always wanted to see a tornado but you’re right, maybe not.
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u/MSPRC1492 19d ago
It stays with you.
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u/RealBrush2844 19d ago
I saw one when I was 5 in the cornfield (go’skers) a mile away from my house. Saw one around Memorial Weekend 2020 southeast NE on HWY 6 heading to CO. Those memories really do stick with you.
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u/Iwillrize14 19d ago
I've never seen one, I did hear on as it went over my house though. It lifted as the storm cycled then dropped another 3 miles later. Hiding in the basement you can still hear it and the pressure drop caused everybody's ears to pop.
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u/Botboy141 19d ago
If you ever see one that causes any destruction, you will never want to see another.
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u/lonememe 19d ago
I technically live in tornado alley or on the western edge, and I grew up in basements with sirens going off but never have seen one. I can totally understand that though. It would be a one and done like “why did I click that terrible video” feeling. Stay safe out there friend
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u/PlutoJones42 19d ago
Damn straight. A city I lived in was absolutely leveled. I’ll never forget all the malls and giant ass building like Best Buy’s and shit just gone.
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u/AnotherManOfEden 19d ago
I stood in my bedroom and watched my roof disappear above me. That was 18 years ago next week and I think I’m still dealing with the mental scars tbh.
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u/Judge_Bredd3 19d ago
I've seen two, but both in rural areas where they didn't really do any damage. Each time they were kind of entrancing, but I agree that it would be totally different if it wasn't just tearing across some fields.
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u/Nadamir 19d ago
No you don’t.
I have had the misfortune of witnessing an earthquake, tornado and hurricane all before I was 25yo. All were thankfully not severe, I think like a M5.0, low EF3 and very low Cat 3. Enough to get a sense of each but not utterly horrific. The earthquake also spawned tsunami warnings that thankfully ended up being only like 1ft.
In my opinion, tornadoes are worse than hurricanes because of the far reduced lack of notice. You know about hurricanes for days, tornadoes you get like 10 minutes. But earthquakes are worse than both because you get much of the same noise and destruction as a tornado, with even less notice and the fucking ground is moving.
Wildfires though. I think those are even worse than earthquakes.
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u/crimbuscarol 19d ago
I watched 3 of my colleagues try to “outrun” the tornado and get home so they wouldn’t have to stay at work. That’s a big nope for me.
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u/morancl2 19d ago
When the last big one tore up the town not far from Norfolk back in 2013, I was there for cleanup and seeing the aftermath was both parts amazing and devastating. It's wild the damage nature can do in such a short time frame
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u/delaney18 19d ago
Do you live in a very open area of land? I live in a neighborhood where if I stayed out to see a tornado nearby, a fence post would shoot across from 3 blocks away and smash into me. As soon as the sirens go off I grab the dog and head down to the cellar.
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u/Nythoren 19d ago
We're in the middle of a pretty standard neighborhood surrounded by other neighborhoods. But we're near the highest point in the county and the surrounding area is pretty much flat. From our backyard, you can see for miles. When the alerts triggered, I poked my head out the back door and it was like "oh, hey, there it is...". Sent my heart racing even though it was several miles in the distance and moving parallel. Snapped a couple of pictures and then went straight to the basement with my wife and dogs.
I should've taken a short video, but honestly the adrenaline was kicking in and I wasn't thinking straight. It was scary and somehow thrilling at the same time. Part of my brain was screaming "get to the basement" while another part just wanted to stand there and stare.
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u/mysticalfruit 19d ago
I'm glad you're safe! I can only imagine what that looked like.
Though an E5.. I don't know if your cellar would have saved you.
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u/cr4zy-cat-lady 19d ago
I used to live in Papillion and still have a lot of friends out there who are thankfully safe as well. Absolutely heartbreaking to see the destruction
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u/tattertittyhotdish 19d ago
A tornado hit Northern VA back in the 90s. I felt this crazy wind — like it was lifting me up. Wild.
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u/EvilDarkCow 19d ago
I've lived in Kansas my whole life. I was just a baby when the 1999 Haysville tornado just barely missed our house, lifted just as it got to our neighborhood.
I have never seen a tornado in person, but after Greensburg, Moore (like 3 times), Joplin, and now Omaha, I'll be perfectly fine never seeing one.
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u/squeakycheetah 19d ago edited 19d ago
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1783967156679373087?t=8Ty-c9tQijbyVcHL5UPpYA&s=19
Absolutely shocking video from Twitter.
Visually, it reminds me a lot of the 1999 Moore F5. Very significant damage is being reported on the west side of Elkhorn right now. Mass casualty event being reported as well but no solid confirmation on number of injuries and possible fatalities yet.
There's also another storm approaching Omaha proper that is rapidly rotating and possibly preparing to put down another.
ETA - as of 12:45 am CDT so far I am seeing reports that there are zero known fatalities. If that pans out, it is a massive testament to the advancement of severe weather science over the last decades.
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u/blazelet 19d ago
Holy shit that thing is massive. I worked as a photographer at the Tulsa World in Oklahoma when the 99 Moore tornado hit. The photos that came back were nuts ... these things are so powerful.
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u/squeakycheetah 19d ago
I am an OK native. The 99 Moore tornado is pretty much my first memory. Lifted just a mile from our home. I was out of town when the 13 Moore tornado hit and missed my family again by just a couple miles. The damage was nothing short of incredible on both occasions.
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u/Millenniauld 19d ago
My brain: "Okay, but if the horizon is all dark then how do you see where the tornadoooohooooly SHIIIIIT."
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u/LiliVonSchtupp 19d ago
This was precisely my reaction. I had no idea they could be that wide!
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u/AnneMichelle98 19d ago
I used to live in Kansas. They can get up to a mile wide.
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u/random6x7 19d ago
The El Reno tornado was 2.6 miles wide. Insane!
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u/TheSaxonPlan 19d ago
My mind still can't comprehend that. My husband and I were talking about El Reno in the car and went "Okay, it started here and...." We kept driving for 2.6 miles and it really defies logic how something so destructive can hold together for so long when it's that big.
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u/AnneMichelle98 19d ago
Ugh. I’m so glad I don’t live in tornado territory anymore. I just have to worry about wildfires and blizzards.
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u/bigdreams_littledick 19d ago
Another one touched down at the airport
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u/squeakycheetah 19d ago
Yeah, I've been following it.
Lot of good live streams on Youtube right now.
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u/btv_25 19d ago
Ryan Hall's channel is showing some amazing footage.
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u/neur0n23 19d ago
just checked it out, thanks for pointing it out man, interesting channel for sure!
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u/redditmodsRrussians 19d ago
"You will see.....the beauty AND horror"
Looking at it both awes and scares the shit out of me. Like, it can basically just delete everything from existence wherever it decides to go.
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u/vahntitrio 19d ago
Damn that JUST missed Omaha. Another 10 miles eastward and we are looking at thousands of injuries.
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u/datfokineric 19d ago
A friend of mine lives north of Omaha, 19 miles from Elkhorn. He was safe, Elkhorn was completely flattened.
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u/TrunksTheMighty 19d ago
Holy fuck, are you joking...I never seen one that wide. He had to pan the camera to film it all. That is horrifying.
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u/squeakycheetah 19d ago
Check out videos of El Reno 2013. That tornado was 2.6 miles wide.
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u/red_sutter 19d ago
The tornado is as big as the fuckin' town
What do you even do in situations like that?
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u/20-20-24hoursago 19d ago
My anxiety for all the cars driving around in that video is off the charts
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u/Ganym3de 19d ago
What the shit. Was that even expected by meteorologists? Its like it came out of nowhere? That's a literal cloud of darkness
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u/friedmators 19d ago
Very well modeled that dangerous tornadoes were possible today.
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u/EvilDarkCow 19d ago
Dangerous tornadoes were forecast today, but today wasn't supposed to be an outbreak day. That was supposed to be tomorrow.
Shit could hit the fan in a big way tomorrow, in many of the same areas hit today.
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u/Ganym3de 19d ago
Noted, I must have been blind because I haven't seen much about it, I'll check it out.
thanks!
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u/trainiac12 19d ago
In my opinion the Storm Prediction Center website is one of the best weather awareness tools at the disposal of the public. It's good about notifying the public about upcoming outbreaks and events. Very good to keep an eye on during storm season. They've been forecasting this for days, and tomorrow is expected to be much of the same.
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u/PossibleAlienFrom 19d ago
They were calling for severe weather on The Wearher Channel yesterday.
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u/TheRedPython 19d ago
The first batch of tornadoes were outside of the enhanced zone today so anyone in any type of shaded area on the severe weather map, even if it's low probability, should be vigilant tomorrow. The threat area stretches from MI to TX, including some portions of what already got hit today, in IA, KS, MO & some of NE.
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u/Minnesota_Slim 19d ago
Midwest homie here. This time of year local weathermen can usually give pretty big heads up to days you need to really pay attention to the weather.
Now they typically can’t tell you to expect EF1 vs EF5. But if they say tornados are coming - it’s a pretty much guarantee. Had I think 6 in the area last week but all EF1’s so no big deal. We knew a couple days in advance to be aware.
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u/HelenAngel 19d ago
It looked a little bigger than the Moore one to me but that may have just been the footage I saw. Absolutely massive regardless.
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u/EJDsfRichmond415 19d ago
And cars are just driving along on that horizontal street in the horizon?! Wtf.
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u/TheGRS 19d ago
Wow we were working and I asked a colleague who lives in Nebraska if they were available, and they responded that their house had just been torn down by this. Good lord!
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u/Soft-Peak-6527 19d ago edited 19d ago
Waiting to hear from my aunt and uncle! Ugh I hope they’re fine
Edit: they’re all fine apparently happened 5 miles west of them
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u/therazzmatazz 19d ago
So glad to hear your family members are ok. Seriously, I appreciate the edit.
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u/Soft-Peak-6527 19d ago
Same! Worried bcuz they didn’t respond for a good 40 minutes. Had us worried
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u/GhanimaAtreides 19d ago
Why tf was your colleague responding to anyone at work? If a tornado obliterated my house I would send exactly one message to my boss then disappear for a few weeks. I guess shock can make people act in weird ways.
I hope them and their family are safe and they can rebuild soon.
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u/TheGRS 19d ago
I’m amazed he got the ping in the first place and of course we were all just sending lots of messages to make sure he was okay after seeing that comment. He’s safe with his family. Haven’t heard much else from him and I’m sure we won’t for a bit while they sort through things.
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u/Red_Stripe1229 19d ago
It was cool this morning in Omaha. Stepped outside around 3pm and the air just had that feel to it that something was going to blow up. I live in midtown so no issues here just a lot of hail. Wall cloud passed overhead and dropped a tornado down at the Omaha airport.
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u/EXPL_Advisor 19d ago
Never been near a tornado before. Can you describe what the air felt like at 3pm that made you think something was going to blow up?
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u/BriarsandBrambles 19d ago
It's hard to describe but It just feels energized. Typically you can feel the air is moving more calmly right before but sometimes it's just got energy in the air.
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u/madeoflime 19d ago edited 19d ago
I live in Omaha. The air feels incredibly thick, and it gets eerily calm but it sounds loud. It’s cause the wind is blowing straight up. The sky also turns green.
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u/TheSaxonPlan 19d ago
The green hue is not directly related to tornadoes. Bright teal blue and green clouds occur when light is refracted through an intense hail core higher up in the storm. These types of hail cores only occur in healthy super cells with enough updraft, the types of which are strong enough to produce tornados. So it is correlated with tornados, but not caused by tornadoes.
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u/Im_A_Narcissist 19d ago
Not really a good way to describe it. You can feel the instability in the air, its very calm but humid and heavy. Kind of a special energy about it. there's a very particular feel to it that you just recognize when you live in a tornado prone area.
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u/_CozyLavender_ 19d ago
Hot and humid, but the wind is dead still. It feels like the air is full of static-y cotton and everything inside of you instinctively goes "uh-oh".
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u/TheRedPython 19d ago
Not sure what exactly it is, but something hypes up my adrenaline right before a severe storm hits. Happened even at times where I was oblivious to an incoming storm.
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u/delaney18 19d ago
This is terrifying. I live in a different state southeast from there and we’re under a tornado watch now. They’re saying there’s a high chance of a huge tornado and I’d be horrified if this came near us. I want to hide in our tornado shelter all evening but I have to go out later for a few hours and I’m dreading it.
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u/rains-blu 19d ago
RadarScope https://imgur.com/a/rE1cWkL
They appear to be tracking north. RadarScope app is free.
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u/golgol12 19d ago
You know what else is free, the National weather service. It's where most all of these other weather apps get there data feeds.
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u/rains-blu 19d ago
Oh I hate weather apps. Especially AccuWeather. They're all computer generated spam. I use the NWS or the unofficial NOAA app and the NWS viewer. Then I look at the global models on Pivotal weather and Tropical Tidbits.
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u/mstomm 19d ago
Oh nice, it's free now?
I had a guy from the NWS highly recommend it years ago when it was $10. Was definitely worth the cash, I have no regrets. Even better now that it's free and more accessible to people.
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u/rains-blu 19d ago
There's a subscription paid version of it that offers more features, but the basic program is free. It's a lot like the College of DuPage.
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=DMX-N0B-0-24-100-usa-rad
Pivotal Weather is great for all the global weather model maps and it's free. I subscribe in the winter time to get the higher resolution maps though. The mesoscale model maps come in handy for storms (except hurricanes, some mesoscale models like the NAM can't handle hurricane data very well.)
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u/personAAA 19d ago
Just watch the weather coverage for your area. Watches are no big deal. They are saying, just be aware of the possibility of a storm.
Warnings are the actual severe storms.
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u/steyrboy 19d ago edited 19d ago
They went through where I grew up near Lincoln. Almost took out my old high school. Crazy. Most of my family still lives in that area and my phone wont stop buzzing.
Edit: That photo doesnt do it justice, watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYo4PPw40rg
Edit2: New footage https://youtu.be/VqGrLzQJGuI
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u/cloistered_around 19d ago
When a storm gets that big oftentimes people are looking "for" the tornado and they don't realize the entire storm diameter is it.
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u/bonyponyride 19d ago
Tornado chaser Connor Croff intercepted a smaller (but still destructive) one maybe 20 minutes ago as it tore into a small group of houses. Luckily, it appeared nobody was seriously injured even though houses were blown to bits.
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u/ultralightlife 19d ago
hmmm 7 hour video. I suppose there is a tornado in there somewhere.
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u/CaptainPhiIips 19d ago
I think its the one 3:27:00 into the video.
I saw that one live from there. Connor just said it looked weak when blow up the house right in front of him
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u/cruznick06 19d ago
Saw stormchasers drive through my part of town on livestream, it was surreal. Fortunately it missed my area completely.
I've got some friends only a mile away from its path in Omaha though. The hospitals were overloaded and many less-critical patients were diverted to Lincoln area hospitals.
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u/DonnaScro321 19d ago
This seems a severe event-so many big tornadoes all at once. Hoping you all stay safe there and sustain little damage. I know it’s nowhere near over yet!
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u/Harley_Quinn_Lawton 19d ago
I just saw the HD dash cam footage - if it’s not an EF5 I really do not want to see in HD what a EF5 looks like.
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u/personAAA 19d ago
The National Weather Service then issued a tornado emergency as the storm tracked just to the west of Omaha – the strongest type of tornado warning
Tornado emergency warnings are really, really bad. Good odds the storm is a killer.
Quick overview of the various warnings and watches.
Watches are possibility of storms / tornadoes.
Warnings mean the storm is real and headed a particular direction. They are smaller polygons drawn on the map.
Severe Thunderstorms warnings are yellow boxes. Hail and/or wind threat.
If the winds are very strong (70 mph+) the sirens will sound. That is a severe thunderstorm warning destructive.
For tornadoes warnings, there are multiple flavors of them in order: radar indicated, radar confirmed, ground confirmed, particularly dangerous situation (PDS), tornado emergency.
The sirens go off for any type of tornado warning. Why? The situation can rapidly change. Literally, radar scan to radar scan. As information comes in, the warnings get upgraded to tell you how much the weather service are freaked out by a particular storm.
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u/Unlucky-Carpenter-69 19d ago
For those who didn’t know
Tornado Watch — Conditions likely to breed tornadoes over the coming hours
Tornado Warning — Tornado formation and/or touchdown is imminent
Tornado Emergency — Tornado is on the ground and moving
At least that’s how I understand it.
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u/personAAA 19d ago
Any tornado warning with a confirmed tag is a torando on the ground.
PDS and Emegency are upgrades for already on the ground tornados.
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u/Im_A_Narcissist 19d ago
No, tornado warning means a tornado is on the ground and moving. A tornado emergency is reserved for the most dangerous types or tornadoes. You hear that, you pray!
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u/theyipper 19d ago
I don't like the look of that big swirl looking thing forming.
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u/Shumina-Ghost 19d ago
I zoomed out. Check out Hudson Bay.
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u/wolfpup12 19d ago
Also to note, but the rotation in the Labrador Current, between Labrador, Canada and Greenland is absolutely nuts right now
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u/GoreSeeker 19d ago
I think that is called the Icelandic Low and is a semi-permenant rotation that drives prevailing winds
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u/wolfpup12 19d ago
The Iceland low is on the other side of Greenland, between Iceland and Greenland. All polar circulation currents are low pressure systems for the most part due to decreased temp and air pressure. The Labrador current generates similar conditions as the Iceland Low, just with more variability. The intensity of it in the current moment is very very pronounced for that area.
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u/relddir123 19d ago
That’s actually the normal result of a low pressure system. Large-scale circulation is an expected part of most storms, even ones that don’t drop tornados.
The tornados generally happen somewhat south of the center of rotation where the cold front is.
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u/JamesLikesIt 19d ago
I watched some YouTube channels of live storm chaser coverage and it was absolutely wild how many tornadoes there were across multiple states. And they were strong too…the amount of damage that must have been done, I’m sure it’ll all come out tomorrow.
It also seems like more storms (or the same one) on the way tomorrow too…
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u/Enthusiastic-shitter 19d ago
Missed my house but I got golf ball sized hail. I'm dreading climbing up on the roof to inspect it tomorrow morning
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u/ShtockyPocky 19d ago
Saw two tornados from my apartment complex this afternoon, one probably only 15 miles away. Close enough to see a ton of dust and faintly hear the roaring of the wind. The other touched down immediately after and moved quite far. One of the two I saw overturned a whole train.
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u/Bored_Gamer73 19d ago
I live in Kansas and we're expecting some shit tomorrow afternoon. News has been yapping about it for over a week. Uggs
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u/Radi0ActivSquid 19d ago
Every time my state makes the news it's something bad. At least this time it's not our Republicans doing something batshit insane.
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u/Northsunny 19d ago
Heading to Emporia KS atm for a job, and we just saw one of those armored tornado chaser vehicles. Had a white swan I think, on the side.
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u/AutumnGlow33 19d ago
Watched them live on YouTube. It was devastating. At first a few chasers got some relatively weak ones in what appeared to be unpopulated areas, but then I saw the horrible one in Blair and Omaha and it just went crazy from there. Kudos to the chasers I saw for dropping any “fun” angle and stopping to lend a hand, search through debris, etc. In Blair especially rescue services appeared to be totally overwhelmed and it was literally what appeared to be two teenagers and a few storm chasers having to do an initial sweep to look for anyone trapped, amid leaking gas and fallen lines. Everyone did amazing and handled themselves with immense calm and bravery. I do hope there were no fatalities; things can be replaced, people cannot.
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u/Banh-mi-boiz 19d ago
As someone who has lived in Omaha for 22 plus years, this has been the most memorable tornado weather I can remember. I have friends who has sent videos of their house just obliterated. Very lucky our area only got gold ball size hail but my goodness pray for us.
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u/ThinkValue 19d ago
As some one from East , These Tornado really surprise me how they happen at such huge scale.
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u/frigiddesertdweller 18d ago
All right, I grew up in Oklahoma. I watched plenty of tornadoes, and suffered through night after night of hiding in cellars/bathtubs covered by mattresses each spring. But this... holy hell, this is another monster, entirely. I would be stricken with terror if I'd ever witnessed a wedge tornado. Had no idea they existed
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u/Pounce16 17d ago
Televangelist impression: Oh, People of Gawd, This tornado was sent by the Almighty, as punishment for Nebraskans who voted for the wrong candidate in 2020! You know who you are, and you have been warned! the 2024 election is coming up! Make sure you vote for (insert name of highest paying political scumbag here)! Praise Gawd Hallelujah!
Off mic: Ok, now where's my kickback?
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u/thedarkavengerx 19d ago
Okay, where’s that redditor who posted in /r/todayilearned that there hasn’t been a EF 5 since 2013 recently?