at 10:10 AM by Pierce Larkin

Ridiculous Weather Impacted Central Plains

Monday, Jacob Wilkins wrote about how there were severe weather warnings in areas that were under Blizzard warnings at the same time.

Well, yesterday we got our first sights into just how dynamic this system is. There was a strong, and deepening low pressure system over northwestern Texas, and it deepen as it moved northeastward. This system has already shown just how intense, and crazy November storm systems can be.

 

Monday evening, we really saw the major impacts be in the form of severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes. Like I spoke about last week, there are more favorable portions of a storm system for tornadoes and severe weather than others. Last night was no different. The first tornado watch was issued early yesterday afternoon, around 1 PM, and more followed as the dynamics really got cranking into the region.

h/t SPC
h/t SPC

The exit region of the 500 millibar jet made its way into the warm sector from the Texas panhandle up into Kansas, and fired off supercells all afternoon. With favorable instability (energy that makes thunderstorms) and wind shear, tornadoes dropped from Texas up into Nebraska. Check out some of these ‘naders.

h/t SPC
h/t SPC

 

 

 Honestly, this outbreak produced some of the most photogenic tornadoes I have ever seen. It is heartbreaking to see the devastation some of these tornadoes caused.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, on the cold side, the dynamics were so great that it forced heavy, convective snowfall into northwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado. The cold side of this system also included some very, very strong winds. This, combined with the heavy snowfall, created the second blizzard in a week over northwestern Kansas.

 

 

 

 

You think that our weather is crazy? At least we didn’t go from severe weather to a blizzard in less than a day.