The image I’ve included is surface level radar (top left) to radar at 15000ft (bottom right) and is truly incredible. You almost never see such obvious and large scale cyclonic activity like this that is both so wide and so high up into the atmosphere. Wind speeds of over 200mph
Truth continues to defy fiction, unfortunately at this moment we can just hope it doesn't hold true for The Day After Tomorrow 
That's an impressive hook. I'm curious to see Storm-Relative Velocity data from that 15kft slice.
I used to have all kinds of weather nerd programs on my old PC, like GrlevelX etc. Radar apps for phones just aren't the same.
This is some really incredible shit
That correlation coefficient…yeah, lots of stuff being chucked I to the air.
Lots of stuff chucked into the air with little to no manmade objects in the area or forests. Scary
Certainly better than the alternative. Our ability to visualize abject natural terror has come so far.
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a spiral like that!
Neither have I. It honestly is beautiful. Scary, the power needed to create a feature like that on radar, but beautiful
That is fucking wild, terrifying
GRLevelX spotted, kinda sucks the gold standard public weather radar analysis program is some old, proprietary Windows program. ~~You running a legit copy? I know some bits that cosmic rays could flip in your copy to give you infinite trial period...~~
Thinking about emailing the NWS to see if they have some ancient IRIX X11 radar analysis program or something that they would be willing to open source.... maybe I port that to modern Unix
Do it!
I don't know who to email or how even to ask them but I will look into this
It was 15000ft tall?
Tornado circulation continues above the cloud base, far up into the parent storm.
I saw one far away while visiting family in the Midwest as a kid. Cloud base was 2500m that day according to weather records, so at least 8000ft for a random one I happened to see.
Essentially, yes. And about a 1 to 1.5 miles wide
rare that hook echo ever looks so crisp
It was strong enough that it produced an anticyclonic tornado, one of the strongest and widest anticyclonic tornadoes of all time as well
Can't wait to see some detailed analysis on it. Just searching and theres not a lot on it right now and most searches point back to the EF5 in 2013 on May 3rd. So roughly same time of year.
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