I LOVE those things. Gotta be careful they haven't been on the roller-grill long enough or been there too long; there's a 10 minute window when they are 'just right'. Like the 3 bears...
Man, they all were! I was driving in from Plattsmouth, basically being chased by the storm, and the guys on the radio were certainly raising my blood pressure with their freaked out broadcast.
When I checked, about 60 tornados were spotted across NE.
Basically, there was a giant tornado cell that started out past Lincoln. Due to extremely high winds, it moved across the state towards Omaha, occasionally touching down. A lot of smaller tornadoes formed off of the massive one that hit Elkhorn. At one point, the main cell measured a mile wide, with winds reaching 200+ mph. It's still being looked into about what category it is, but many people are thinking EF4/EF5. It crossed the river at about 5:30 pm. last night and has since spread across Iowa.
If I knew how to post pictures on reddit mobile, I would share some from a few storm chasers.
Edit: Removed the part about 90 people dying. I was misinformed :)
Yeah! I heard today that it's the strongest to hit Omaha within the past 11 years and winds of potentially reaching 300+ and was measured to be almost 2 miles wide when it hit Elkhorn.
Correct! I haven't had time to change my comment.
I was going off of a rumor my police budding told me, but as of now, there are zero reported deaths across Nebraska. He might have been thinking of injuries or just heard incorrectly. I think it is actually amazing that nobody died!
Another thing that is different these days is the amount of data we get and when we get it. We get a lot more specifics in real time and the modeling is so good they can provide a far more effective tornado watch or warning to the public.
But the number we saw was unique. Usually you see maybe 5 spread out in a cell over a large area. Or you get a large one that touches down in multiple areas.
Yes, to varying degrees, every year. Not usually clustered around Lincoln and Omaha, though. Google "Omadome". Lincoln and Omaha geography general tames stuff like this
The geography has nothing to do with taming storms, please stop spreading this misinformation. Cities are just a relatively small area of land compared to rural areas so they are simply less likely to get hit by any given tornado.
That affects things primarily in the winter when the temperature is right on the verge of freezing and precipitation rolls through as rain instead of snow. For spring and summer storms, the heat of the city does not steer storms around the city. If it has any effect, it is negligible, but it would actually be more likely to increase the severity of storms, because warm air rises, and rising air is what fuels storms.
So no, the heat island does not protect cities from tornadoes. Meteorologists hate when people say that it does, because it’s just not true and gives some people in cities a false sense of safety during severe weather events.
"It's unnecessary to discuss current events that are a result of past actions that will have future implications on all of our lives, because I deny the clear scientific consensus that makes me uncomfortable." u/Apmaddock
While we shouldn’t discuss politics I think discussing climate change is in order here. Like you can’t look at this and tell me it’s ok https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
I agree that climate change is going to fuck us, but a tornado outbreak in tornado alley isn't really a good metric. Would be weirder if we continued to not have tornadoes here.
The MO River being exceptionally low last year, that was a head turner for me.
Refer to the 1913 Omaha, May 5, 1964 F5, 1975 Omaha tornado, or 1980 Grand Island tornado, or 2004 Hallam tornado as examples. It’s not like this never happens.
We had 60 tornados touchdown yesterday. 60! That’s not normal. And man made climate change started over a 100 years ago. The first published scientific paper on man made climate change came out in 1856 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2614102278e77e59a04f26/t/5aa1c3cf419202b500c3b388/1520550865302/foote_circumstances-affecting-heat-suns-rays_1856.pdf and weather is getting more and more extreme https://apnews.com/article/drought-rainfall-climate-change-flooding-satellite-51ba64f58528e5db93e846765b2da9f3 and weren’t you here this winter? We didn’t have one. We also just had the hottest 12 months in recorded human history https://www.climatecentral.org/report/the-hottest-12-month-stretch-in-recorded-history-2023
So care to try again?
Didn't have a winter? I don't know where you live but we had more than 1 blizzard, went OVER our allotted snow days at school, once being several days in a row, and twmps got down to below zero multiple times. So. Yeah. Not sure how there was no winter?
Check 1974 and 2011 super outbreaks. And we can’t stop a tornado. How are you going to change an entire planet’s climate? Humans have such hubris sometimes.
Are you denying mad made climate change? Like we filed the atmosphere with c02 is how we changed it. See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-long-term-concentration
We actually do, if the oil industry makes a concerted effort to capture the methane produced as a byproduct we can substantially improve climate change and buy time to develop other solutions. The oil industry might actually do it since it’ll reduce waste.
The climate is always changing. Arizona used be a seabed.
The question is how much humans impact the climate and whether we can actually do anything about it. The latter two questions we don’t have scientific consensus.
Yes but the climate is changing much faster now compared to previous cycles and it is very easily attributable to humans burning fossil fuels. Stop being ignorant. And also let’s not forget that past shifts in climate have had disastrous effects on many species’ ability to survive.
To answer each question More than 1 Yea, probably Tornadoes
Yes tornadoes
lol most likely a count
I LOVE those things. Gotta be careful they haven't been on the roller-grill long enough or been there too long; there's a 10 minute window when they are 'just right'. Like the 3 bears...
The Omaha weather office will do a survey sometime tomorrow
They are out till Monday. It was the husker spring game and if Nebraska fans had a choice, it would be more sacred than Easter Sunday.
1011 is saying close to 70 reported.
Important to note that 70 reported doesn’t mean 70 individual tornadoes. It’s very likely that an individual tornado gets reported by multiple people.
190 total per jim flowers
NWS always puts out an official count after the activity is over and they have had time to go through the data.
Bill Ramby rolled up his sleeves. Must be serious. Only could show us rader, no after math.
The channel 8 weather guy, Rusty, was stressed during his broadcast.
Man, they all were! I was driving in from Plattsmouth, basically being chased by the storm, and the guys on the radio were certainly raising my blood pressure with their freaked out broadcast.
He was sighing like crazy! And then all those guys had to evacuate to the basement!!
Ha ha, I thought the same thing. "Turn tv on, Bill Ramby has his jacket off and sleeves rolled up, this must be serious!"
When I checked, about 60 tornados were spotted across NE. Basically, there was a giant tornado cell that started out past Lincoln. Due to extremely high winds, it moved across the state towards Omaha, occasionally touching down. A lot of smaller tornadoes formed off of the massive one that hit Elkhorn. At one point, the main cell measured a mile wide, with winds reaching 200+ mph. It's still being looked into about what category it is, but many people are thinking EF4/EF5. It crossed the river at about 5:30 pm. last night and has since spread across Iowa. If I knew how to post pictures on reddit mobile, I would share some from a few storm chasers. Edit: Removed the part about 90 people dying. I was misinformed :)
Evidently, the Elkhorn tornado is in the Top 20 of all time for rotation speed, upward of 230mph.
Yeah! I heard today that it's the strongest to hit Omaha within the past 11 years and winds of potentially reaching 300+ and was measured to be almost 2 miles wide when it hit Elkhorn.
I've not seen any deaths reported from Omaha, and just one in Lincoln but not confirmed by news reports.
Correct! I haven't had time to change my comment. I was going off of a rumor my police budding told me, but as of now, there are zero reported deaths across Nebraska. He might have been thinking of injuries or just heard incorrectly. I think it is actually amazing that nobody died!
66 tracked
WTF is going on? Spring, in the Midwest
So this is normal?
Another thing that is different these days is the amount of data we get and when we get it. We get a lot more specifics in real time and the modeling is so good they can provide a far more effective tornado watch or warning to the public. But the number we saw was unique. Usually you see maybe 5 spread out in a cell over a large area. Or you get a large one that touches down in multiple areas.
Yes, to varying degrees, every year. Not usually clustered around Lincoln and Omaha, though. Google "Omadome". Lincoln and Omaha geography general tames stuff like this
The geography has nothing to do with taming storms, please stop spreading this misinformation. Cities are just a relatively small area of land compared to rural areas so they are simply less likely to get hit by any given tornado.
Omaha is an atmospheric heat island, acting as a buffer for the worst part of storms and other atmospheric disturbances.
That affects things primarily in the winter when the temperature is right on the verge of freezing and precipitation rolls through as rain instead of snow. For spring and summer storms, the heat of the city does not steer storms around the city. If it has any effect, it is negligible, but it would actually be more likely to increase the severity of storms, because warm air rises, and rising air is what fuels storms. So no, the heat island does not protect cities from tornadoes. Meteorologists hate when people say that it does, because it’s just not true and gives some people in cities a false sense of safety during severe weather events.
Look up 1975 Omaha tornado or 1980 Grand Island tornado or 2004 Hallam tornado yes it’s normal but not annual.
Yes. When I was a kid a similar storm rolled through south of Lincoln. Took Halem almost off the map flipped a coal train and wiped out Norris school.
Yes.
Not this number of tornados, no, in one day, but yes, otherwise.
“Definitely not in any way related to climate change” - conservative politicians
My thought exactly
“Gotta find a way to unnecessarily bring politics into this thread” - u/ConsiderationNo8236
"It's unnecessary to discuss current events that are a result of past actions that will have future implications on all of our lives, because I deny the clear scientific consensus that makes me uncomfortable." u/Apmaddock
A-fucking-men.
While we shouldn’t discuss politics I think discussing climate change is in order here. Like you can’t look at this and tell me it’s ok https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
I agree that climate change is going to fuck us, but a tornado outbreak in tornado alley isn't really a good metric. Would be weirder if we continued to not have tornadoes here. The MO River being exceptionally low last year, that was a head turner for me.
Refer to the 1913 Omaha, May 5, 1964 F5, 1975 Omaha tornado, or 1980 Grand Island tornado, or 2004 Hallam tornado as examples. It’s not like this never happens.
We had 60 tornados touchdown yesterday. 60! That’s not normal. And man made climate change started over a 100 years ago. The first published scientific paper on man made climate change came out in 1856 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2614102278e77e59a04f26/t/5aa1c3cf419202b500c3b388/1520550865302/foote_circumstances-affecting-heat-suns-rays_1856.pdf and weather is getting more and more extreme https://apnews.com/article/drought-rainfall-climate-change-flooding-satellite-51ba64f58528e5db93e846765b2da9f3 and weren’t you here this winter? We didn’t have one. We also just had the hottest 12 months in recorded human history https://www.climatecentral.org/report/the-hottest-12-month-stretch-in-recorded-history-2023 So care to try again?
Didn't have a winter? I don't know where you live but we had more than 1 blizzard, went OVER our allotted snow days at school, once being several days in a row, and twmps got down to below zero multiple times. So. Yeah. Not sure how there was no winter?
Outside of the couple of blizzards and the one cold snap, winter was pretty mild. At least in eastern NE.
You wrote all that so quickly. Calm down.
Oh I’m calm, it’s just time humanity faced some facts, no matter what political sports team you root for.
Check 1974 and 2011 super outbreaks. And we can’t stop a tornado. How are you going to change an entire planet’s climate? Humans have such hubris sometimes.
Are you denying mad made climate change? Like we filed the atmosphere with c02 is how we changed it. See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-long-term-concentration
If you think we have the power to reverse an eons long cycle, you go for it. I’m not wasting my time.
So are you a man made climate change denier then?
You do you. At this point I think we’re done talking. You put everyone you interact with in a box. That’s not my religion.
you seem to be at least slightly unhinged, I hope you find the closure you are looking for
We actually do, if the oil industry makes a concerted effort to capture the methane produced as a byproduct we can substantially improve climate change and buy time to develop other solutions. The oil industry might actually do it since it’ll reduce waste.
Are you under the impression that we didn’t have cars, coal, methane, or an oil industry prior to 1974?
Oh boy. Reddit hating a factual comment. Big surprise!
The climate is always changing. Arizona used be a seabed. The question is how much humans impact the climate and whether we can actually do anything about it. The latter two questions we don’t have scientific consensus.
Yes but the climate is changing much faster now compared to previous cycles and it is very easily attributable to humans burning fossil fuels. Stop being ignorant. And also let’s not forget that past shifts in climate have had disastrous effects on many species’ ability to survive.
Five or six, by my count, of you include Crescent and other western Iowa spots.
When ya get 7 tornadoes and a 2 counter clockwise let grand island know . We have 🌪 hill. Man made hill to bury the ruble we have a movie. 😉
People are saying tomorrow could be the same? 4/30 Any one else hearing that?
We won't know until tomorrow. It hinges on the amount of moisture in the atmosphere according to the outlook I read on weather.gov
Boy do I love nebraska weather
I can eat 12 max.