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High risk convective outlook issued by the Storm Prediction center at 13:00 UTC on May 6. Starting April 30, the Storm Prediction Center noted that certain models, including the ECMWF, forecasted a multi-day period of high instability and supportive wind shear across the Southern and Central Plains, [10] and by May 1, a 15% risk was added across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas. [11]
NEXRAD radar imagery of an EF2 tornado near Alta Vista, Kansas on March 13, 2024 (supercell with hook echo on left, velocity on right). The weather system responsible for the outbreak was evident multiple days prior, but the area that received the worst tornadoes was not expected to be the main threat.
That tornado traveled 8.8 miles, had a max width of 400 yards and produced estimated top winds of 115 mph. It lasted from 7:45-8:15 p.m. The storms also caused power outages and large hail.
In the evening hours of April 1, 2024, an EF1 tornado would move through portions of eastern Barnsdall, impacting areas that would be hit by the EF4 tornado five weeks later. The tornado touched down at 8:38 p.m CDT (01:38 UTC) east of South 5th Street, damaging trees at EF1 intensity along West Chestnut Avenue and deroofing a home on West ...
The majority of tornadoes in 2024 have touched down in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Ohio has also experienced a surge in tornadoes, with 54 reports so far. Preliminary tornado ...
Updated May 1, 2024 at 7:46 AM. One person died and three others sustained minor injuries when a tornado touched down in Westmoreland, Kansas, on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
The state saw a total of 44 tornadoes in all of 2023, so it’s been a more active season in 2024. But when you look at averages since tornadoes started to be recorded in 1950, this year’s ...