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April is often quite good. Hard tho with daylight hours still on the shorter side. Also the risk of snow in behind the severe weather. April tends to have big outbreaks that are moving very fast and hard to keep up with.

Sure do wish I was heading over this year. Just can't scratch up the money with a mortgage and baby. It's been 5 years since I was last there.
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Central Kansas looking a good bet for tornadoes mid week 84hrs on midnight models.
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I came across this clip of the 25 March 2015 Moore Tornado approaching. It was actually a mesovortex tornado and was rated EF1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7r6X-Sy2Ag
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I thought it was rated EF2?

Just did a quick search, odd that I couldn't seem to find a definitive rating. If you have a link would appreciate it.
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Apparently most of the damage observed was EF1, with only a small area of EF2-strength damage...

'The March 25, 2015 Southwest Oklahoma City/Moore EF2 Tornado' - NOAA

'Tornado Table for the Severe Weather Event of March 25, 2015' - NOAA
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re that video NZStorm
wow, notice the lack of big trees! (as this street was hit 2 years ago, going by the comment to the video)
even piles of debri still..
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I think today is the first Mod risk of the season.

...THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
FROM PARTS OF NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO WESTERN
AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI...

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

So many streams out today, https://tvnweather.com/live/
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03Stormchaser wrote:
So many streams out today, https://tvnweather.com/live/
A great camera network there :D
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spwill wrote:
03Stormchaser wrote:
So many streams out today, https://tvnweather.com/live/
A great camera network there :D
We hope to be on it in the two weeks Im chasing.
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03Stormchaser wrote: We hope to be on it in the two weeks Im chasing.
Please don't become an extension of TVNWeather.... for your sake.
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There is alot of chasers out today, seen one Tornado in Kansas earlier. Watching a very nice meso at present
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Clip from SW Kansas by Live Storms Media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzpnettVOk
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Nice one
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Massive Tornado on the ground right now in Il
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and now
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Seems to mostly be in rural areas but is heading towards towns :/
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A clip of that photogenic wedge tornado in Illinios today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didkQXhjeVQ
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NZstorm wrote:A clip of that photogenic wedge tornado in Illinios today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didkQXhjeVQ
Very photogenic, but very fast moving. Not ideal for chasing, but watching the stream the roading options looked good in IL
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NZstorm wrote:A clip of that photogenic wedge tornado in Illinios today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didkQXhjeVQ
Wow, great clip.
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Videos being added here as they come in.
http://tornadotitans.com/tornadoes-stri ... eosphotos/

Dare to give this a rating Ef4? possible EF5, would be IL first EF5 if it is. I only mention EF5 as twitter post from a chaser reports of a complete house torn from the foundation
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I see its been rated @ the high end of EF4
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Close encounter with the twister! The chances of surviving a direct hit from such a tornado would be nil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmJCB0x21s#t=16
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that is crazy !
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What a casual dude. So calm. What a fool tho. Very close to death there. Should have just blasted forward at the start of the video.
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Tornado Warning in Moore Texas, got quite a pronounced southern notch. Some Big hail coming from that thing!
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
551 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MOORE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MASTERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MASTERSON... LAKE MEREDITH...
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