Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

[Lightning]

I guess these outbreaks and just going to be one after another after another.

It's just that time of year. I predicted that the spring severe weather season would be active due to La Nina being in a weakening phase.

[toxictwister00]

I guess these outbreaks and just going to be one after another after another.

It's just that time of year. I predicted that the spring severe weather season would be active due to La Nina being in a weakening phase.

This month is reminding me a lot of April 2009 as far as how active the severe weather has been.

[TWCmatthew]

A moderate risk of severe weather has been issued for Day 2 for parts of the MS valley and western Ohio Valley. This could be another record-breaking event.

[Lightning]

A moderate risk of severe weather has been issued for Day 2 for parts of the MS valley and western Ohio Valley. This could be another record-breaking event.

Here we go again. The winter was very active with one snow/ice event and cold wave after another and now the spring season is very active with one severe weather outbreak after another.

[WeatherWitness]

We're under a tornado watch until 10 PM tonight. It's hard to tell if we're going to get much or not...TWC isn't saying anything about it.

[toxictwister00]

I was surprised to find out today we have a slight risk for severe weather tomorrow. Locally, it's been made out to not be a big deal because the main energy was supposed to be moving further north than it has with the past severe weather events because of a HP that's supposed to be over the SE. I guess something must have changed.

[WeatherWitness]

Well...severe thunderstorms in progress right now for the DFW area, so I guess anything is possible, Tavores. I don't remember anything but a 30% chance of thunderstorms, but I guess that has changed.

Right now I'm not seeing more than light rain and (BRIGHT) lightning outside my window, but some areas could be at risk of baseball-sized hail.

[Pop Light Brown]

Parts of Mississippi are under a severe thunderstorm watch until 8 pm tonight CST. Some warnings are in effect.

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
CHOCTAW...SOUTHWESTERN OKTIBBEHA AND SOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTIES...

AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE TO
TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EUPORA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MATHISTON...SHERWOOD...REFORM...STURGIS AND LONGVIEW

[Lightning]

We had some good thunderstorms this morning but nothing as severe as last Friday.

[Lightning]

The city of St. Louis is now the latest victim of severe weather and tornadoes. A tornado hit there tonight with extensive damage at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The active spring severe season continues. There are reports of injuries.

[Localonthe8s]

According to the airliners.net forums there's major damage reported at the airport. Reports of "extensive damage on Tarmac, luggage carts knocked over, damage to planes, windows blown out, cars tossed". Sounds really serious...

[toxictwister00]

Looking at the damage, I think it's going to be rated an EF3.

[Pop Light Brown]

EF3 or EF4.

Lambert is closed until further notice. Reading the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, NWS St. Louis confirms that tornadoes struck New Melle and Maryland Heights in Missouri and Granite City in Illinois. The Post-Dispatch also reports the track is only five to ten miles off of the path of a 21-mile tornado that struck the same area Jan. 24, 1967.

[WeatherWitness]

I've been watching several videos this morning covering the damage of Lambert-St. Louis Airport. It's pretty amazing what happened, and I am shocked that those passengers who were actually inside airplanes at the time the tornado hit were able to survive and make it out OK.

[Lightning]

I saw about an hour ago that the rating for the St. Louis tornado is EF4, with winds of 166-200 mph.