May 6, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said: At the risk of derailing things the Katrina bulletin from the NWS will always go down as the worst. Yeah the 26 days between Katrina and Rita were crazy. I remember following the live blog of Michael Bennett who kept the data center operational during the storm and aftermath.https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/05/provider-that-survived-katrina-exits-new-orleans That scar tissue from Katrina turned Houston into an absolute clusterfuck for Rita with people over panicking and evacuating when they were under very limited threats completely fucking the roads up. I guess my experience during Hurricane Alicia (also in 1983) had me ready to hunker down and ride it out. We wound up playing flag football at Christian's Tailgate even as the winds were starting to blow in and my buddy from Naperville who had fled the storm initially wound up driving back to Houston in the middle of the storm. On the positive front at least Limas Sweed caught that TD pass at the Horseshoe between those two storms.
May 6, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, Hate said: I don’t know why anyone would live in OK during the month of May. They should just close the state down and pick up where the left off in June. Bad idea jeans. You think all those Okies would go to Kansas or Arkansas.....no they would come HERE to Texas.
May 6, 20241 yr Author 40 minutes ago, bolverk said: @Royalfan5 @immamac Seconded since this is turning into the catch-all "Tornado thread." That's fine with me, but I haven't figured out how to change it yet.
May 6, 20241 yr Living on the prairie southwest of Ft. Worth, as a kid, we had several tornados. None never hit the house, but it tore up a bunch of fence and destroyed my new treehouse that I hadn't even stepped foot in. We had a big tornado in our subdivision about 7-8 years ago, it was past my folks house, but without the ability to verify the distance it was extremely scary until we heard from them. CHIEF
May 6, 20241 yr From time to time I travel for work and, as fate would have it, I’m at the Colcord hotel in downtown OKC. Next door is a tall building with a bar on top so, if it starts to get sporty I’ll do some on location reporting.
May 6, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, CoTex said: From time to time I travel for work and, as fate would have it, I’m at the Colcord hotel in downtown OKC. Next door is a tall building with a bar on top so, if it starts to get sporty I’ll do some on location reporting. Make sure your phone is fully charged for photos and videos.
May 6, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said: You know shit's real when you are getting a watch for a watch: Technically, isn’t that a warning for a watch?
May 6, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, SquishMitten said: Technically, isn’t that a warning for a watch? We have a watch, and a warning. The watch would be good for you.
May 6, 20241 yr 38 minutes ago, CoTex said: From time to time I travel for work and, as fate would have it, I’m at the Colcord hotel in downtown OKC. Next door is a tall building with a bar on top so, if it starts to get sporty I’ll do some on location reporting. Was at the Colcord last week. Dinner and drinks at Vast, the tall building place you mentioned. Go on up there and take pictures of the incoming doom.
May 6, 20241 yr 15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: We have a watch, and a warning. The watch would be good for you. But who's having sex with the hen?
May 6, 20241 yr 9 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said: Motion to rename thread title, because....today is going to be interesting. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html A regional outbreak of severe weather with multiple strong, long-tracked tornadoes, as well as very large hail and severe thunderstorm gusts, is expected over parts of the south-central Plains from this afternoon through evening. OK, Southern KS, Red River region... Thunderstorms are expected to develop by mid/late afternoon along and ahead of the dryline, near the eastern TX Panhandle/western OK line or 100W longitude into southern KS, then strengthen quickly to severe levels as they move eastward. Given the already very favorable parameter space by late afternoon, and increasingly so into early/mid evening, the concern is high for at least a few cyclic, tornadic supercells producing multiple significant tornadoes along potentially long paths. The threat for such tornadoes, as well as very large/destructive hail, will be maintained well into the late evening, and may even increase as hodographs further enlarge beneath the LLJ. Some uncertainty lingers as to how many such supercells will track across the outlook area, but given the unusually favorable environment and increasing confidence, a "high risk" outlook is warranted for areas between roughly the I-40 corridor in OK and the US-54/500 corridor in southern KS. Fuck Oklahoma in particular
May 6, 20241 yr 44 minutes ago, NorthLoop said: But who's having sex with the hen? And what about chicken pussy? Is it enticing? I mean, what's the story?
May 6, 20241 yr These storms have not even reached the real energy yet. Dewpoints are 75-78 % a county over.
May 6, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, CoTex said: What’s the difference in a cell and a supercell? super cells are always single cell just of the intense variety.
May 6, 20241 yr These weather guys need to pace themselves. No way they can keep up this intensity and the action ain’t even to OKC yet.
May 6, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, CoTex said: What’s the difference in a cell and a supercell? Just wait until you find out about the difference between jelly and jam.
May 6, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, SurlyBDR said: Just wait until you find out about the difference between jelly and jam. Peasant food. Nothing but marmalade for me.
May 6, 20241 yr These okies have got some balls. They got a weatherman broadcasting live from a damned helicopter. I guess he lost the bet or drew the short straw.
May 6, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, CoTex said: These okies have got some balls. They got a weatherman broadcasting live from a damned helicopter. I guess he lost the bet or drew the short straw. Who? this one is decent
May 6, 20241 yr 7 minutes ago, CoTex said: These okies have got some balls. They got a weatherman broadcasting live from a damned helicopter. I guess he lost the bet or drew the short straw. He won the bet.
May 6, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Who? this one is decent This is what I’m watching. They got some guy in “Sky 5: near nobscot.”
May 6, 20241 yr My wife has to work late tonight so I ordered a shitty pizza and am sitting on the couch to watch Max Velocity's youtube feed this evening. We live in a weird fucking era.
May 6, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, CoTex said: These okies have got some balls. They got a weatherman broadcasting live from a damned helicopter. I guess he lost the bet or drew the short straw. How in the fuck do you file THAT flight plan??
May 6, 20241 yr KOCO has always had a met forecasting from a helicopter, saw what you will but the okies are masters at tornado coverage, I like watching the news stations because they never get excited, always deliver it matter of fact.The last Moore tornado was caught on its infancy and followed by a news chopper.
May 6, 20241 yr About to have some drop. They’ve got rotation building up big, and the radar signature and brief funnels,
May 6, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, SurlyBDR said: Just wait until you find out about the difference between jelly and jam. But what if he already knows the difference between jelly and syrup?
May 7, 20241 yr KOCO below had a helicopter These names have to be made up: Omega, Loyal, Alpha, Oneida, those sound like government installations or a code when you string them together.
May 7, 20241 yr KOCO below had a helicopter These names have to be made up: Omega, Loyal, Alpha, Oneida, those sound like government installations or a code when you string them together. Sky 5, that dude always provides the best shots in storms
May 7, 20241 yr Okie weathermen not afraid of a tornado. One trying to drive a car through it and one flying a helicopter around it in a damned lightning storm.
May 7, 20241 yr Using night vision to see it. Windmill farm needs to prepare its anus. Edited May 7, 20241 yr by atomheartbevo
May 7, 20241 yr Manhattan KS has a pretty impressive radar sig a few minutes ago. I'm not sure if it hit or not. Edited May 7, 20241 yr by SimonBolivar
May 7, 20241 yr 16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Using night vision to see it. Windmill farm needs to prepare its anus. I’ve seen one rip a blade off a windmill. Luckily it dropped it in a freshly planted cornfield and not someone’s living room.
May 7, 20241 yr Sitting here in this hotel room, behind enemy lines, waiting for the tornado to come and take me to Shangri-La. Getting a little stir crazy.
May 7, 20241 yr Major tornado threat has shifted toward the Tulsa region. Small town of Barnsdall about to get hit. Bartlesville is going to be under the gun soon. Edited May 7, 20241 yr by bolverk
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