Long track tornadoes, large hail and high winds are expected today across portions of the deep south. This may be one of those events that catches many people off guard – those are the types of events that end up with a death toll.

While the Atlantic Hurricane Season is in full swing, a strong system is moving through the plains and into the Ohio Valley. The Storm Predication Center has issued a Tornado Watch for extreme southeast Iowa, west central and northwest Illinois, and extreme northwest Missouri.

I recently read Storm Chaser and respected tornado scientist Dr. Chuck Doswell’s latest essay titled – “An Incident Leading to an Implication of Unfullfilled Promises,” which as Chuck’s essays usually do made me do a lot of thinking. The gist of the essay refers to the fact that on June 12th, 2009 at 10:23 PM CDT a tornado formed in the “heart of meteorology” (Norman, Oklahoma) and it ended about 10:38 PM.

I don’t know what is more thrilling, when you intercept a tornado – or when one of your long-time friends and past tour guest intercepts a tornado. The latter happened today when I received a text message from Nicole saying there was a wicked storm in the Denver area and she was going to head out an “see what she could see”.

Spring-like weather has returned to the Central Plains, but it’s June – not May!

We started the day off in the southern portion of the Texas Panhandle and drove all day without much stopping to get back into Oklahoma. We witnessed convective initiation on the southern end of the boundary, just north of Watonga and stayed with this cell all evening long.

Today’s severe outbreak is setting up. However tomorrow could be the bigger severe event in Oklahoma. It’s going to depend on what happens this evening and if there are outflow boundaries leftover from today’s storms.

Things are getting a bit punchy in Oklahoma at this hour. SPC issued a Mesoscale Discussion just a short time ago – Tornado Watch will likely follow shortly.

Tornado watches are currently in effect from Louisiana to the east coast of Florida and tornado warnings are lighting up the map across the gulf states.

A recent story by Associated Press writer Holbrook Mohr tells a familiar story – in …

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Exclusive: New photos of the Edmond Tornado from February 10, 2009, these were taken by Kate Meyer in Oklahoma City. Special thanks to Kate and Sarah Kogler (StormTours.com Meteorologist) for these incredible photographs.

Preliminary survey results are in for the February 10, 2009 tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. The damage survey on the Lone Grove tornado indicated the tornado reached EF4 strength with maximum wind speeds in the 165-200 mph range. The tornado’s widest path was measured at ½ mile wide at times.

Damage survey results are also in their final stages for the Edmond tornado. The preliminary data indicates that there were 3 tornadoes. The first tornado had the shortest life of the three and struck NW of Bethany, it travelled ¾ of a mile and was about 30 yards wide and did EF1 damage.