Severe weather season has kicked into high gear this year after a couple of years with few if any bad storms.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Allan Curtis tells Radio on the Go News that following drought conditions, all the ingredients have been coming together to allow for tornadoes and other severe weather.
“A lot of times we get ingredients come together, or we’re missing one or two ingredients, and we don’t quite get the severe storms or a tornado or two, and it’s more generic thunderstorms or, you know, lighter rain. But if everything does start to align and we’re talking moisture, temperature, winds throughout the atmosphere, all of that, you know, if it starts to come together correctly, then we start to raise the red flag, so to speak, and hopefully people were paying attention the last couple of days because better or worse, we did start to see those ingredients start to line up two to three days before what transpired, and we did, you know, we attempted to get out that messaging, saying, hey, please, please pay attention.”
Storm survey teams from the National Weather Service have given a preliminary rating of an EF-3 tornado that struck Greenfield and a preliminary rating of an EF-2 tornado that struck portions of Polk and Story Counties.
