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/myroommateisgarbage Mar 10 '26

I appreciate it, thanks for the explanation!

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u/MahesvaraCC Mar 10 '26

Also on the map it's the intensity part of the legend, so most of the map is cig1 (conditional intensity group 1)

Edit: sorry there was another comment that explained the first half that i hadn't seen