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Helene making landfall as a Category 4 - and thereby having an enormous amount of energy that had to go somewhere, in spite of all of the dry air and shear around the storm - is a case I'd like to see front and center. ML is really struggling with "in spite of" tropical rapid intensification, too.

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The skit is a distant third for me. First, it's a great song that my dad passed on to me. Second, some churches tried to throw it away as devil/suicide worship ("It's about a boy asking a girl to go out with him!", I can hear my dad yelling). So I leave any church that villainizes the song.

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Two of my favorite chaser buddies and I ate at Cattleman's in OKC that night. We knew the northeastern Texas panhandle was the place to be. We just didn't feel like chasing. There was an admittedly stressful amount of rain in OK during my 10 days there in 15. It's OK to do different things.

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So many awesome instruments on this mission. The most critical to bend the curve on rising hail losses, usually exceeding $30b/year, are the roof shingle panels being deployed & hit by hail. Having better roofing will lower losses - can’t wait to see all the data from this crucial part of research!

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Most ground teams deployed on a storm that produced wind-driven baseball-sized hail near Christoval, Texas yesterday afternoon. Another team found 5.87 inch hail further to the east by Menard.

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Condensed footage of yesterday’s tornado chase in Floyd, NM. First 17 minutes of the tornado shortened to 45 seconds from 5:18-5:35 p.m. Full video is up on YouTube: youtu.be/VLXkVJgogME

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No tornadoes today, but I got to hear a younger student say “I knew from the math we did in class that it rotates, but to actually see it spinning like that… woah”, so I’ll count that as a success! Some of the most insane hail Rayleigh scattering I’ve ever seen, and a cool funnel!

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Love that we are getting people looking for fresh hail.

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I was kinda cheering for a picture after the 2014 atmospheric missile attack

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As good as it gets. Wow!

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Love the foreground.

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Watching this stationary thing on radar constantly spit off dead left splits is almost hypnotic.

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Thank you for your valuable mPING reports!

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Best screen shot i have of dual QLCS tornadoes attacking us at 3 AM last 5/24.

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You could tell me the seward KS tornado was a violent tornado and i’d believe you. Just the most extraordinary plains atmosphere i’ve ever seen. Storm number actually prevented more urban violence than what took place.

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Teams had the most successful IOP yet today in Colorado, featuring > 70-80 mm hailstones (large apple sized) and an unexpected tornado near Akron! Well done everyone!

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Definitely did not expect a storm this good to be on the north side of town today

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Looks like a blizzard hail day for ICECHIP out on Highway 385.

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The 5/19 dry line bulge will be a fascinating look at distracted inflow (warm front thunderstorms), dry air intrusion from the west, and a whole lot of tornado outbreak ingredients all in one place. Great account from Dan.

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21 years ago today. Close range intercept in my home turf. I get hit/cut on the leg by a stick thrown by this tornado. Glad it wasn’t metal or at my face/neck. That was the end of me caring about getting super close to tornadoes.

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A big part of my appreciation of the Fujita scale died in 2011. Joplin was going to be rated an EF4, like Tuscaloosa. They didn't have a DI. It felt wrong given the death. I feel that way about Tuscaloosa, Rolling Fork, and now London. ISU mercifully figured out a way to test the parking slab.

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Here's the track of the first EF-2 tornado from Sunday (Elkhorn Ranch, NW Elbert County) overlaid on the landscape as it was in 2004, and today. 20+ years ago, it would've been over open country, but now it tore through a neighborhood. Almost certainly would not have been (E)F2 in the past. #cowx

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Tulsa/Wagoner updraft. The sky was simply obliterated by updrafts that afternoon.

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If you thought the picture we posted yesterday was good...just check out this timelapse of the same storm! 🤯 Video courtesy of Mesonet technician Steve Thompson (taken Sunday, May 18 near Freedom, OK). #okwx #okmesonet

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May everybody who tries to branch out in their mid 40s have a big sister for a hype-person!

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May 21st, 2024. Rotating wall cloud over the southern Omaha metro. There are some trees just to the left of this picture for whom this moment was within the last few seconds of their life.

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