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

Reed is particularly adept at putting himself into situations that appear more dangerous than they are at the time. He can ride the edge like no one else. It helps that he's done it tens of thousands of times, and that he seems to have a sixth sense about tornadic storms. He doesn't really panic despite the excitement he shows, and he always has an out.

The problem is that the "Monkey see, monkey do" kicks in and many others start believing they have the same skill and experience.

The tornado debris signature path of the Shawnee tornado. Not good to see for sure.



News9: Oklahoma Task Force One (OK-TF1) Urban Search & Rescue is deployed to Shawnee

The little town 9f Cole tooka direct hit i heard.

That pic of Shawnee looks terrible..

The hail damage alone is going to make insurance companies and auto body repair shops heads spin.

I live close to Cole and graduated from OBU.

Sheesh.

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Well that’s not terrifying or anything like that…

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Is that a Fujiwhara effect with 2 tornadoes?

Shawnee

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Is that a Fujiwhara effect with 2 tornadoes?

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Maybe, kind of. What we had was a setup that favored splitting supercells. The chance for deviant motion with those type storms is much higher. Couple that with a cyclical supercell that is going through the process faster than normal and you have a storm that is trying to split, but the newly-formed meso takes over too quickly for the split to happen. The new meso forms, the old one (and the original tor) fricks off northward at a rapid pace, and the new meso pulls the storm back together. What made this storm extraordinary was how many times it was able to efficiently go through that process.

The primary and secondary mesos (and possible tornadoes) could play off of each other similar to a fujiwara effect, but not necessarily that. It is going to be very interesting to see the actual tracks of these plotted out and how often that storm had two tors down at once.

Also, it was refreshing to see that no chasers were rolled by this one, because it was certainly a dangerous storm capable of doing just that. Maybe they learned some lessons.