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May 23-27 Severe Weather Obs/Disc.


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Big blob of storms coming in from Ohio and KY. They have the whole front line warned from northern OH clear down into WV and KY. I don't recall seeing that much of an continuous area warned before...and it's several counties deep.

Lot of hail with these.

question is, do they die before they get here... and how many hours off are they....

*EDIT* - HRRR says no to that blob affecting us east of the mountains... :(

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actually.. looks like ellinwood and jason are on that torn warned cell in eastern nc. looks good on radar.

We got a nice funnel/possible tornado (we called in the circulation... only reason why it got TOR warned!). Condensation funnel was down to about the top of the tree line, but can't 100% confirm a tornado yet since it was behind the tree line. Video coming soon. Slept 3 hours in the car and now I'm at work.

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Typical severe wx day setting up. Clouds this AM will take it's time to break up, which will hamper our chances, long enough to get 2 meh posts from ION. When things do get rockin' WarriorWood will coin toss to go N today, the DC split/corn dust barrier will occur, yoda's keyboard will melt from the heat of continuous CTRL C/CTRL V, mapgirl will hate the wx again and leesburg will get 2" of drought.

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Typical severe wx day setting up. Clouds this AM will take it's time to break up, which will hamper our chances, long enough to get 2 meh posts from ION. When things do get rockin' WarriorWood will coin toss to go N today, the DC split/corn dust barrier will occur, yoda's keyboard will melt from the heat of continuous CTRL C/CTRL V, mapgirl will hate the wx again and leesburg will get 2" of drought.

Today looks like crap.

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Typical severe wx day setting up. Clouds this AM will take it's time to break up, which will hamper our chances, long enough to get 2 meh posts from ION. When things do get rockin' WarriorWood will coin toss to go N today, the DC split/corn dust barrier will occur, yoda's keyboard will melt from the heat of continuous CTRL C/CTRL V, mapgirl will hate the wx again and leesburg will get 2" of drought.

Sounds about right to me.

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oh, c'mon. Chasing lil' storms around here will only get you so far.

1. It's MO/KY/TN... not exactly what one would call good chase territory. No way would I travel THAT far to go chase in the mountains and wooded areas. I can do that here.

2. I work Mon-Fri.

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1. It's MO/KY/TN... not exactly what one would call good chase territory. No way would I travel THAT far to go chase in the mountains and wooded areas. I can do that here.

2. I work Mon-Fri.

Not saying you should go (and clearly you can't because of work schedule)...but western TN is pretty damn fine chase territory. Very few wooded areas and flat as a pancake, and plenty of roads gridded in a way to give you a shot to keep a good view of a developing storm. Anywhere west of Jackson, TN over to the Mississippi River is a good spot to catch something if conditions are right. In fact, wasn't it near Memphis that you guys got some pics from a tornado warned storm on your way west?

That said, it is a 12-14 hour drive to get over there...so...not exactly something one does spur of the moment.

Now, eastern TN? That is a hellish place to try and chase given the elevation and trees.

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Southern half of VA/WV upped to 30% wind... vis sat looks mostly clear down there. Clouds and showers keeping NoVA/DC/MD in crappy air. Still don't know why SPC has the 2% TOR risk all the way around... The wind profiles are unidirectional and and do not support tornadic development.

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Southern half of VA/WV upped to 30% wind... vis sat looks mostly clear down there. Clouds and showers keeping NoVA/DC/MD in crappy air. Still don't know why SPC has the 2% TOR risk all the way around... The wind profiles are unidirectional and and do not support tornadic development.

blanket probabilities to cover butts, probably.

Any chance we clear out a bit?

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The HURRDRR (HRRR) keeps us out of the fun stuff... mostly just SCT showers and a few garden-variety storms. the better air to the south looks to get MCSed later today.

Lets hope the modeling or the forecast is horribly wrong and we break out into full sun within the next few hours

Weenie thoughts FTW

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 5pm for SE WV and the western half of VA:

http://www.spc.noaa....tch/ww0354.html

ww0354_radar.gif

DISCUSSION...MCS CURRENTLY CRESTING THE APPALACHIANS IS EXPECTED TO

INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES E OF THE BLUE RIDGE LATER THIS MORNING. 12Z

RNK SOUNDING SUGGESTS THAT AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER

80S...STORMS SHOULD BECOME FIRMLY ROOTED WITHIN THE BOUNDARY LAYER

WHERE AIR MASS SHOULD BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH MLCAPE OF

1000-1500 J/KG. BELT OF 50+ KT WLY FLOW IN THE 700-500 MB LAYER

WILL ENHANCE FORWARD SPEED OF SYSTEM WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING

DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

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