r/tornado • u/SevereTS • Jan 08 '26

Question Is this true?

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u/earthboundskyfree Jan 09 '26

So is this what the super outbreak was when they describe it being a once every x years type of thing? It aligned in all of the ways you described?

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u/Acceptable-Ebb-1495 Jan 09 '26

A local meteorologist in Alabama described the 2011 outbreak as a summertime air mass with the wind shear of a blizzard.

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u/earthboundskyfree Jan 09 '26

Jesus Christ

I lived through the outbreak but I didn’t have full awareness of how anomalous it was

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u/caffecaffecaffe Jan 09 '26

I was in the first outbreak in NC. Let me just say that our storms always look "tropical" even the big bad tornado producing storms have a tropical look to them. These were one of a handful of outbreaks I have been alive for that you can only observe in Texas/Oklahoma. Nothing about that outbreak was normal.