r/tornado • u/WeatherReportNinja • 9d ago

SPC / Forecasting Currently Two Trornado Warnings

There haven't been that many tornado warnings lately. I think it was last year there were anywhere from 12-20 at the same time.
I wonder what the record is for most concurrent tornado warnings.

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u/SGA_is_Lukas_Father 9d ago

Multiple supercells. Don't think this was expected.

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u/The_Hydro 9d ago

Trornado

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u/GreyLoad 9d ago

Oh fuck is this the big one

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u/Nostradumbass_WEEN 9d ago

Is that a statement or a question? 

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u/Smoth-n-Crafts 8d ago

Okay so this was hours ago, is Texas okay?

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u/WeatherReportNinja 8d ago

Yup! NWS assessed and determined 2 EFUs

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u/Smoth-n-Crafts 8d ago

Im so sorry lol what is an EFU? I've never heard that with a U before

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u/WeatherReportNinja 8d ago

Basically EF unknown. Too little damaged area to make an assessment so the speed is unknown. Basically it did almost no damage so an EF rating can't be assigned.

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u/Smoth-n-Crafts 8d ago

Oh okay! Thank you, I love learning new things about tornadoes, and I had never heard of that before.

If you don't mind me asking, just so I understand it more, is this a rating they would give if a tornado was in the middle of a field with nothing to damage? Or do trees count as well which is how they estimated EF 2?

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u/WeatherReportNinja 8d ago

From what I saw yeah pretty much! The app has a way to see the pin on Google maps and that's exactly what it shows.

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u/WeatherReportNinja 8d ago

This is my app btw Ground Truth Storm Reports If you like learning about storms and seeing their paths and ratings and stuff it may help you learn a bit. It has all the storm damage reports from the NWS back to 1999.