CT Rain Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I'm talking about severe criteria winds as this line moved through...the anecdotal stuff I cannot speak of. It's not anecdotal it appears there were several bows with impressive downbursts... one in NE CT from Vernon east into Windham County... another in Middlesex County with significant damage and power outages from Middletown straight to Old Saybrook... and another in Litchfield County/northern Fairfield County. 120,000+ power outages is the biggest from a svr event I can remember in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeVries Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Jeez, STILL getting a few C to G strikes within a couple miles of here in the last 5-10 minutes, about 2 hours after the main line went through. Real earth shakers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I can't wait until my friend uploads the video! You see us getting PELTED by sand at like 40-50 mph...I was kind of hoping to get pelted by golf-ball hail but the sand will have to suffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I can't wait for the next threat. Might be Saturday night or Sunday if we can warm sector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 It's not anecdotal it appears there were several bows with impressive downbursts... one in NE CT from Vernon east into Windham County... another in Middlesex County with significant damage and power outages from Middletown straight to Old Saybrook... and another in Litchfield County/northern Fairfield County. 120,000+ power outages is the biggest from a svr event I can remember in years. Sshhh..the downplayers are downing If it's not tree top gusts, a windex event or flooding that affects almost noone except SE CT it's just not a big deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Wow, very cool stats here: Credit: Patrick Marsh, a doctoral student of Harold Brooks. The 18z sounding from Caribou, ME had a surface based CAPE of 3141J/kg Marsh put together a list of the highest CAPE values for the 46N, -68E grid point from the 20th Century Global Reanalysis From 138 years of data (every 6 hours, totaling 201,616 soundings), today's observed CAPE ranked 7th He acknowledged the varying methods of calculating CAPE, but this is a pretty good indication of significance of today's conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I had the opportunity to witness a CG lightning strike from no more than 50 feet away as that line of storms slammed through here earlier. I could actually feel the heat and shock-wave from the bolt and smell the ozone as I was sitting on the front porch watching the storm when it hit. It struck this large black locust tree on our property and split it in half. The tree is literally hanging by a thread and any decent wind gust will be enough to topple the rest of it over. Hopefully, conditions will remain fairly calm until it can be taken out ASAP. I'm actually kind of glad as this tree is more of a messy nuisance anyway. Now there's an excuse to have it removed and hopefully have the insurance cover most of it. Save for the CG lightning everywhere, it was a pretty run of the mill FROPA t-storm with heavy rain and some wind at the onset. Here are some photos from the tree that was hit Wow, Mitch. Cool to witness a bolt that close. It's happened to me only a few times. Each one has been very memorable. You didn't happen to run braided copper cable up that tree to 'encourage' its demise?lol I got lots of reports of heavy tree damage in Lee and Stockbridge last night. I didn't go down there today so can't verify how bad it was. How did you fare? Just lots of heavy rain and vivd lightning here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnno Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I think the widespread part is the most special part for CT almost everyone got something, we havent had a line like this in a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Sshhh..the downplayers are downing If it's not tree top gusts, a windex event or flooding that affects almost noone except SE CT it's just not a big deal Are you ok? Must be a harrowing experience when garden variety T-storms strike Tolland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Might be Saturday night or Sunday if we can warm sector Yup! SPC Day 4 actually talked about the Northeast...I haven't looked at anything yet though. Probably 0z tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Ryan..any street names in Vernon of the damage? That's where i grew up.Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Ryan..any street names in Vernon of the damage? That's where i grew up.Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Ryan..any street names in Vernon of the damage? That's where i grew up.Just curious no street names thta I heard yet... state police say they're overwhelmed particularly Pomfret/Woodstock/Eastford/Ashford/Willington and Old Saybrook/Old Lyme/Essex/Deep River/Haddam. Also some really bad wind damage in New Milford, Brookfield, and Ridgefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 To put it in perspective..only 8 towns out of 162 in CT have no power outages.. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 To put it in perspective..only 8 towns out of 162 in CT have no power outages.. Wow Epic..Epic...Epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Wow, very cool stats here: Credit: Patrick Marsh, a doctoral student of Harold Brooks. The 18z sounding from Caribou, ME had a surface based CAPE of 3141J/kg Marsh put together a list of the highest CAPE values for the 46N, -68E grid point from the 20th Century Global Reanalysis From 138 years of data (every 6 hours, totaling 201,616 soundings), today's observed CAPE ranked 7th He acknowledged the varying methods of calculating CAPE, but this is a pretty good indication of significance of today's conditions I had the good fortune to work with Patrick for a year or so. He is a future superstar in the meteorological community. Really excellent forecaster. He has a twitter account that's worth following as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 To put it in perspective..only 8 towns out of 162 in CT have no power outages.. Wow up to 146,000 outages statewide... NBD though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 up to 146,000 outages statewide... NBD though In all seriousness...this may have been one of the strongest/worst squallines in the states history. Worst one I can recall where it affected border to border and corner to corner. Meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeVries Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Yeah, I had a feeling that after last night's action (continous lightning, hail) that we weren't going to see anything amazing today. EDIT: Whoa, a pine tree was cut in half in my front yard...damn, that thing has been there 30+ years... Update...the pine tree was not cut in half, just some large branches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Being pelted by sand actually felt good...it stung...I like that feeling. I kind of like pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 my dad was hit by lightning...HES OK...but he was hit. Scary. going to get it checked out. fingers burned, elbow sore as for severe, you could find a hooker in Hartford who could blow harder than that. Glad he's alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 In all seriousness...this may have been one of the strongest/worst squallines in the states history. Worst one I can recall where it affected border to border and corner to corner. Meh I wouldn't go that far, but 50-60mph winds will due tons of damage to foliated trees. Imagine a Cat 1 storm...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 In 1991-1993 SW CT got hit 3 years in a row with some good storms, coincidently all of them were around June 9th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I wouldn't go that far, but 50-60mph winds will due tons of damage to foliated trees. Imagine a Cat 1 storm...lol. I challenge you to find a worse one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 In all seriousness...this may have been one of the strongest/worst squallines in the states history. Worst one I can recall where it affected border to border and corner to corner. Meh How come you don't follow me on twitter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 How come you don't follow me on twitter? Because I hate all your posts about drinking on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I challenge you to find a worse one If you use the metric of coverage..yeah it was impressive. Last radar image I saw looked like it went along with what Ryan said about srn CT. We knew this would whack areas further south that aren't always used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Because I hate all your posts about drinking on Facebook I don't post on twitter really...I only usually reply to people. I mostly use twitter for weather/sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 If you use the metric of coverage..yeah it was impressive. Last radar image I saw looked like it went along with what Ryan said about srn CT. We knew this would whack areas further south that aren't always used to it. In terms of where the thing peaked it conveniently fit in Connecticut's borders very well. Here are the power outages in CT... never seen such widespread coverage like this. Normally on a day thunderstorm day you get 50-70k customers in the dark. 140k is ice storm material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I wonder why BOX doesn't have any of the CT wind damage reports in the PNS except Enfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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