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No tornado reports yet but 90+ mph winds
There are a few damage reports coming out of roofs lost and trees down. I've seen quite a few reports of 80-90 mph winds as well.
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Tornado in Kansas
Long tracking tornado ongoing in Kansas!
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Wind damage in Springfield area tonight
There are quite a few damage reports from trees/power lines down and even a tree on a house in the Springfield area tonight.
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Are you seeing much damage?
Saturday Recap
Hey guys! I made a way to give a real time video recap of all the NWS damage reports for any date. This is for yesterday. What do you think of it? Any way to improve it?
9 Confirmed Tornadoes on the 11th
Here's some of the damage from Illinois and the tornado path lines.
97 mph wind gusts
Update: 111 mph in South Dakota now!
Damaging winds were reported all across the state.
97 mph was recorded in Kane Illinois. 105 other reports were made in Illinois so far and at least one tornado has been reported.
97 MPH wind & 3 confirmed EF1s
So far we've had over 450 wind reports with a max speed of 97 mph recorded in Illinois.
4 inch hail in South Dakota.
3 confirmed EF3s in Iowa and another 1 reported in Illinois so far.
3X EF1 in Iowa early this morning.
Iowa NWS already assessed 3 confirmed EF1 tornadoes from today's system.
Unrelated 97 mph max recorded wind speed today in Illinois.
How do I even start marketing?
I've got a relatively small niche (storm reports & confirmed damage alerts). The biggest market is disaster relief, emergency management, and kind of insurance claims/storm restoration companies.
I've contacted a lot of my friends in disaster relief without much luck.
Overall the metrics/conversions and stuff are pretty good but I can't get exposure. I'm trying to share on Facebook/X/Reddit and it's just seems like complete luck if a reddit post takes off. Other than that I'm not getting much traction.
I'm in a better spot than most I guess though about 1000 downloads and a few paying strangers.
I keep sinking serious hours into it with so little payback. It's so much easier to just go back and add more features to the app than try and market better or more.
I just can't do it...
I've got a relatively small niche (storm reports & confirmed damage alerts). The biggest market is disaster relief, emergency management, and kind of insurance claims/storm restoration companies.
I've contacted a lot of my friends in disaster relief without much luck.
Overall the metrics/conversions and stuff are pretty good but I can't get exposure. I'm trying to share on Facebook/X/Reddit and it's just seems like complete luck if a reddit post takes off. Other than that I'm not getting much traction.
I'm in a better spot than most I guess though about 1000 downloads and a few paying strangers.
I keep sinking serious hours into it with so little payback. It's so much easier to just go back and add more features to the app than try and market better or more.
Appleton WI Tornado Path
Here's the NWS damage assessment path for the Appleton tornado yesterday.
12.1 miles, 140 mph max speed and 1500 max width.
10 tornadoes reported so far tonight!
We're up to 10 tornadoes so far tonight across 6 states.
4 tornadoes, a lot of wind, and some hail so far
Here's the info for tonight's weather so far. Iowa got a pretty good gust of wind recorded at 87 mph. Michigan has some hail (2.75 in).
3 tornadoes, 80mph wind 2.75 in hail
Here's the summary of the NWS storm reports as of right now.
Storm Summary for Yesterday
The North East got a lot of wind reports/damage but only a couple tornado reports.
TX tornado downtown San Antonio
Texas just had a tornado in San Antonio. So far the NWS has no other wind or hail reports for the morning. It's fairly uncommon for just a tornado to be reported.
What was your most memorable storm
Share your more memorable storm and I can see if I can pull some more data up for it. Give me any date since 6-1-1999 and I can tell you quite a bit more about what was going on that day in the US!