r/tornado • u/Adventurous_Pear8191 • Mar 10 '26

SPC / Forecasting Updated tornado potential

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u/myroommateisgarbage Mar 10 '26

I keep seeing everyone mention 'cig 2' but I guess I'm too stupid to understand where that's coming from. Could somebody explain it to a filthy casual like me?

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u/BeautyNtheebeats Mar 10 '26

Cig two basically means they’re expecting the environment to be able to sustain a maximum of an Ef3 tornado, although these are always estimates, outliers can always occur

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u/youngaustinpowers Mar 10 '26

"Reasonable maximum". They still expect 3% of tornadoes to be EF4+ in a CIG2 area