Easter Weekend Outbreak Pending

We are setting up for round two.

However Little Rock and SPC thinks its early yet for show time approx late sat into sunday.

Particularly southern AR, LA, MS, AL, GA and part of FL

 

Two miles? Thats grotesque. I witnessed the Moore and El Reno live on TV where possible and those pretty much blackened the sky with 300+ mph or so.

 

That is usually how nighttime tornados kill. They are not seen. Only heard as your ears pop and your world comes apart around you.

In storm days have your NOAA radio on one of the working channels constantly following what county you are in. When you are under a warned county or if you observed the other side of the freeway dry up to no traffic then find a strong building. To hell with the truck.

One time in 1994 we had 4 derechos (Land Hurricane Complex) form into one near me at approximately Silver Spring on 29. In between Baltimore and DC. I was flatbed delivering cinder blocks to a garden place. The sky went from silver blue severe clear to cloudy followed by despairing talk on the FM radio and on the CB of terror. I reached the customer and got inside the cinder block building just in time. I had the pleasure of watching the derecho try to flip my 18 wheeler back and forth raising both sets of tires and wheels 4 feet off and slamming it down to try to flip it again.

Bossman would love that phone call if it did get flipped. Wont be the first time it tried. I was upset because of the stupid coffee fixing to make a mess in there right quick.

The building I was in was essentially a blockhouse. But it shook then cracked in places as the wind stood on it and pushed. Snap snap snap. Its a good day to die. But not that day.

 

Here is the 2014 Vilonia Tornado. Its a bit of a long video of the coverage as it happened.

I do not live very far from there and heard it pass by. It was rated a EF4 at 200+ sustained. When it crossed the I-40 it threw cars and trucks around throwing people out onto the grass and pavement etc. Then crushed the town of Vilonia. Before it did it reached a small tree area and pulled the very bark off the trees themselves and snapped all their branches. These trees were naked. And the vortex actually managed to pry the paint off the new bypass pavement itself in spots before climbing a hill to smash a 10 million elementry school that would have been full of children if it arrived a week or so later then into town.

Essentially tornado terror for those unused to them.

 

Ok Shreveport is first up for outbreak today.

Individual Supercell Warned storm between Tyler Texas and Lufkin Texas, huge monster. Will reach Shreveport relatively soon, about a hour or so.

Remember storms that are big enough and by themselves have a huge tornado potential.

Shreveport, LA

Edit, the shreveport radar is failed or otherwise taken away so that velocity data is not availible.

There is two storm warnings plus additionals stating it will intensity for shreveport metro and I-20 shortly. Its going to get pretty violent. Cannot do much for the USAF Global Strike Base with all their B52's on the pavement. But it is what it is.