Broken Bow airport in Central NE (close to my hometown) reported wind gusts of like 58 today. If we would've had a fire going it would've been a bitch to stop as I'm seeing the ones in central kansas and Oklahoma right now
Has gone all linear now; still chance for an embedded supercell/tornado though. NWS Quad Cities had some 90 mph gusts reported with this line.
Also worth watching those storms in far SW Missouri/NW Arkansas. If they can get organized before being overtaken by the line, they are in an strongly sheared environment. Best chance for more discrete supercells. We shall see.
SPC just put out a mesoscale discussion highlighting the tornadic threat these SW MO/NW AR cells pose that we've been watching
Just to throw this out there - should lomcevak start a new thread for us? I know I ask a lot of questions for resources that have already been posted, would be really nice to have a first post ITT that compiles all the radar classes etc. before the spring season really kicks in.
Yep it's supposed to be rolling in in the next 10-15 minutes. Sirens apparently just went off in Fayetteville. Nothing in Johnson yet.
Infrared satellite view. You have the line of storms on the right side of the animation and wildfires in the OK and TX panhandles and KS. Can even see the smoke.
Whatever works for y'all. If you want to just continue on this one, I can add whatever you want to the OP. If you think starting a new one is a better idea, do your thing. Doesn't make a difference to me
The storm near Fayetteville is looking a little bleh. The flying-v storm off to the SW, however, now looks like the best storm.
Seems to be cycling now. The special balloon launch/sounding just north at Springfield, MO had an incredible amount of low-level shear.
Pretty good hail signature on this storm. Very high reflectivity along with low differential reflectivity (compares horizontal pulses with vertical; large + values = more oblate, or horizontal shapes, neg values = prolate, or larger in the vertical; values near 0 = relatively spherical). Rotation is also increasing
Yep, that storm cycled and just keeps churning. Will probably be over-taken with the squall line within the next hour or so.
A lot going on here. One lonely supercell ahead of the squall line. That fine line surging ahead of the squall line is the gust front/outflow from the storms; often the strong gusty winds you feel before a line of strong storms actually hit you.