About: May 28, 2016 Midwest Tornado Outbreak

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On the morning of May 28, 2016, the Storm Prediction Center had issued a High Risk for much of the Midwest, including 45% tornado probabilities across portions of Illinois and Indiana, and 30% tornado probabilities extending into portions of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. A rapidly deepening low pressure system with a pressure of 894 millibars was located over portions of Central Iowa as of 15z. A 100 knot jet streak at the 500-millibar pressure level was located across portions of Oklahoma, and rapidly rounding the base of the trough, pushing its way northeast. An unusually well-defined dryline for so far east was draped southward from the low, as well as a sharp cold front approximately 100 miles behind it. A well-defined warm front was also draped from the low pressure center and into p

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rdf:type	tornado outbreak
rdfs:label	May 28, 2016 Midwest Tornado Outbreak
rdfs:comment	On the morning of May 28, 2016, the Storm Prediction Center had issued a High Risk for much of the Midwest, including 45% tornado probabilities across portions of Illinois and Indiana, and 30% tornado probabilities extending into portions of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. A rapidly deepening low pressure system with a pressure of 894 millibars was located over portions of Central Iowa as of 15z. A 100 knot jet streak at the 500-millibar pressure level was located across portions of Oklahoma, and rapidly rounding the base of the trough, pushing its way northeast. An unusually well-defined dryline for so far east was draped southward from the low, as well as a sharp cold front approximately 100 miles behind it. A well-defined warm front was also draped from the low pressure center and into p
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Date	2016-05-28(xsd:date)
total fatalities	1783(xsd:integer)
total damages (USD)	2.59E10
Enhanced	yes EF5
Name	--05-28
tornadoes	237(xsd:integer)
Total	237(xsd:integer)
Duration	29640.0
F	7(xsd:integer) 16(xsd:integer) 33(xsd:integer) 47(xsd:integer) 48(xsd:integer) 86(xsd:integer)
areas affected	Portions of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky
fujitascale	EF5
abstract	On the morning of May 28, 2016, the Storm Prediction Center had issued a High Risk for much of the Midwest, including 45% tornado probabilities across portions of Illinois and Indiana, and 30% tornado probabilities extending into portions of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. A rapidly deepening low pressure system with a pressure of 894 millibars was located over portions of Central Iowa as of 15z. A 100 knot jet streak at the 500-millibar pressure level was located across portions of Oklahoma, and rapidly rounding the base of the trough, pushing its way northeast. An unusually well-defined dryline for so far east was draped southward from the low, as well as a sharp cold front approximately 100 miles behind it. A well-defined warm front was also draped from the low pressure center and into portions of northern Illinois and Indiana, with areas of convection lingering along it. However, by 17z, convection had cleared out, allowing for ample destabilization in the vicinity. By 20z, MLCAPE values of 2000-4000 j/kg had rapidly recovered in the warm sector and along surface boundaries. The surface low was now located over east central Iowa, with pressures down to 989 millibars, allowing for broad areas of surface winds backing to the southeast across eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri, northern and central Illinois, and northwestern Indiana. Combined with upper level winds veering to the WNW, intense speed shear, and surface boundaries, any updraft able to take advantage would violently rotate. By 21z, a moderate capping inversion began to erode away as the intense upper level winds moved into the vicinity. Intense supercells and a significant tornado outbreak ravaged portions of the Midwest, hitting Illinois particularly hard. Several supercellular waterspouts occurred on Lake Michigan as well, particularly off the Chicago shore, but these are not included in the tornado count since the National Weather Service does not count them as tornadoes. That being said, the outbreak had resulted in 237 tornadoes, 1,783 fatalities, over 10,000 injuries, and $25.9 billion in damage, making it by far the worst tornado outbreak so far in history.

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