At least 36 tornadoes have been reported already today across central MO, northern IL, and southern WI, with one particularly damaging tornado in extreme southeast WI near the town of Racine, WI around 2230 UTC. Two simultaneous tornadoes were reported 3 miles northwest of Kenosha, WI right along the western Lake Michigan Shoreline! Other very impressive tornadic supercells were ongoing in northeast MO and southwest MO as of 2330 UTC, with the latter storm looking absolutely incredible on reflectivity and velocity. Damaging tornadoes are likely with any of these storms as they track rapidly northeastward at over 50 mph.
All he models are going nuts! I dunno where precisely this warm air mass just shoved its way into the picture but as of this typing there were still 6 warning boxes out for tornadic storms along with a number of severe thunderstorms all across missouri some of which are showing signs of rotation.
Also to the west oklahoma, there is another squall line moving across the area. it seems to have a bow echo formation so it is negligable that there could be tornados from this system too.
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XD thats epic win.
Thanks for the bit of humor but seriously, so friggin much was goin on last night and its all supposed to fire back up today. I'm really curious to see if we have a full record outbreak of thunderstorms in a 24 hour span. This weather is highly unusual and if nothing else is a good indication about what the storm situation will be this year.
I don't know about the rest of the Midwest, but here in Kansas we've had unseasonably mild winters for about five or six years. I figure we're due, and made the prediction that this winter was probably it based on how damn extreme last summer was.
I see. I've only been just following it. where I am at, there isn't much hope of seeing good storms. By the way I ment to put 36. The 66 was the confirmed tornado warnings issued in a 3 hour period.
I'm really intrested to see how this season will play out.
The weather here in Arkansas is strange as well. We're wearing shorts in January one day, then we get nasty storms, then it becomes freezing cold, then the next day it is nice again.
Weird.
Oh God. Al Gore was right.
WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!!!
Lol.
Joking aside, The weather is incredibly odd yet a perfect prelude to the rest of the year one would believe. But then again I base it off of the year 1999. for those of you who dont recall, that was the most active year in roughly 150 or so years. don't quote that though because It's rough estimates.
Also that was the year the overpass myth was completly settled. So, here is to an intresting if chaotic year for the weather.
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How do they know that?
Weather records with sufficient detail to make such pronouncements did not exist prior to the Second World War, and even now there is very little data for the 99.9% of the Earth's land surface that is not urban areas.
They base it upon the local records they had. When statements "Strongest in 150 years" They used to say "Strongest on record in 150 years" However, they decided to drop that off as for the longest time it was common knowledge they based it off of records. Secondly, weather records with sufficient detail did exist back in the late 1800s and even dated back to the time of benjamin franklin when he made his original weather pronouncements.
It is true though that sufficient records did not exist untill roughly 1950 or so. There was also written constraints. If you will recall, up untill 2003 or so it was common to include that statement "In recorded history" or "In the last recorded X number of years"
I suspect some digging will pull up why the notation of being on record was phased out. I personally have not looked into this based upon my assumption it was just common sense they were basing it on the records.
I mean, come on, they obviously are basing it upon previous records and not just being presumptuous. Anyone can figure that out amirite or what?