Photo: Doug Drace and Kavin Sconce
The biggest tornado outbreak of 2010 year-to-date took place on April 22 with 32 tornadoes reported so far. While some of these are no doubt duplicate reports, there were several very impressive supercell thunderstorms with large tornadoes in this group.
See photos of a large funnel cloud just before it touched down near Groom, TX below.
Storm Chasers Dough Drace and Kavin Sconce were tagging along with this storm as it moved northeastward at about 25mph through the eastern Texas Panhandle between 5 and 7pm.
The tornado, according to Drace, was ¼ mile wide. A second tornado generated from the same cluster of supercells produced a multiple vortex tornado a short time later. While Drace reported a few new dents to his truck courtesy of baseball sized hail, there have been no reports of injuries or fatalities anywhere within the tornado zone. Several farm structures near Scott City, KS were destroyed and this is the worst damage reported so far.
Had this event taken place in a more densely populated area (such as north Texas) there would no doubt been extensive damage and probably a human toll too.
The risk of severe weather shifts into the zone from East Texas into mid-south for the weekend, with another 20-30 tornadoes quite likely by sundown Saturday.
Comments
how can you tell if it is a major outbreak of the year, or is that just a prediction
you are full of it matt aguinaga
The article was both a report on the April 22 event and an outlook through the weekend. As we can see from the events of April 24, it was an accurate prediction (unfortunately).
This 3-day outbreak spawned about 100 tornadoes: more than we had seen the entire year up to that point. Quite an intense event.
Take Care, Steve
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