ag3 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Some amazing pictures in this thread. Stunning capturing of lightning and supercell cloud tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I got caught in this thing yesterday... I've NEVER seen rainfall like that in my entire life. Hail just bounced off of my car, but did cause a minor divet in the hood. The hail I saw was golfball size, nothing like what the pics in this thread show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 The 3.00 inch hail report looks like the new record largest hailstone size for Long Island/Queens/Brooklyn area. The previous record that I was able to find for here was 7/10/89 2.50 inch in Suffolk. 5 SUFFOLK07/10/19891700Hail2.50 in.0000 08/01/2011 0430 PM New Hyde Park, Nassau County. Hail m3.00 inch, reported by trained spotter. Spotter measured hail at 3.0 inches. Car windshield shattered on Durham Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 You can see the hail contamination but it shows where the storms lined up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAT5ANDREW Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Judging by the high water/flood marks and talking to people in the areas that were affected,the hail and not the rain was the big story.THe rain was torrential and there was big flooding,but there have been worse rainstorms over the past several years.Many say JULY 18 2007 was the worst rainstorm in recent memory.JULY 31 1996 I remember LIR Mineola Station being flooded to nearly the platform leve,yesterday it diidnt even cover the tracks.lTHe hail was unbelievable though,so many leaves stripped off of trees and hail damage to cars.A Historic storm in that sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Judging by the high water/flood marks and talking to people in the areas that were affected,the hail and not the rain was the big story.THe rain was torrential and there was big flooding,but there have been worse rainstorms over the past several years.Many say JULY 18 2007 was the worst rainstorm in recent memory.JULY 31 1996 I remember LIR Mineola Station being flooded to nearly the platform leve,yesterday it diidnt even cover the tracks.lTHe hail was unbelievable though,so many leaves stripped off of trees and hail damage to cars.A Historic storm in that sense. My heaviest rain in the shortest amount of time here in Long Beach was 6/22/95.I remember the torrential thunderstorm began around 12:45 am and continued until around 2:15-2:30 am.The storms kept back building right overhead and Long Beach picked up about 5.20 inches of rain during that time period.We couldn't drink the water the next day since a water pipe was undermined and broke.The grocery store was jammed with people buying bottled water.I believe there was also a partial ceiling collapse where there was a renovation being done. The torrential rains were highlighted the next morning on The Weather Channel. Description: Torrential rain caused extensive urban flooding. Rainfall amounts generally ranged between three and four inches however isolated amounts of six inches occurred overnight. Major roadway flooding occurred along the Belt Parkway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAT5ANDREW Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My heaviest rain in the shortest amount of time here in Long Beach was 6/22/95.I remember the torrential thunderstorm began around 12:45 amand continued until around 2:15-2:30 am.The storms kept back building right overhead and Long Beach picked up about 5.20 inches of rainduring that time period.We couldn't drink the water the next day since a water pipe was undermined and broke.The grocery store was jammedwith people buying bottled water.I believe there was also a partial ceiling collapse where there was a renovation being done.The torrential rains were highlighted the next morning on The Weather Channel.<font face="Times"><font size="2">Description:<b>Torrential rain caused extensive urban flooding. Rainfall amounts generally ranged between three and four inches however isolated amounts of six inches occurred overnight. Major roadway flooding occurred along the Belt Parkway.</b></font></font> I remember those storms.They were elevated and developed several hours after a backdoor cold front pushed through ending a siege of 3 consecutive 95+ degree days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Here's another video: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 More video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xnLEI0pEs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT...A driver on the LIE by Little Neck, Queens. His windshield cracks from the hail. You can see the mayhem on the LIE. Cars stopped dead and pulled over because of broken glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT8BO9_XYFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euripides Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT...A driver on the LIE by Little Neck, Queens. His windshield cracks from the hail. You can see the mayhem on the LIE. Cars stopped dead and pulled over because of broken glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT8BO9_XYFE Smart move to hide under trees to help protect their cars....then again they are taking a chance if the tree falls on the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadojay Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My timing of Chicago trips have been working out well to get to witness additional severe weather.. Here we go again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof09 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Awesome to see the severe weather yesterday in the area but once again all I got was distant thunder, lightning and some mammatus clouds. The storm drought for me continues. Nice pics and vids though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euripides Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I did not notice it yesterday but I guress the hail was large enough in Douglaston because the hood and roof of my car has little dings all over it. It was parked at the train station and only had a baby tree over it. Sigh...... My parents are getting new windshield, hood and trunk to their car. Body shop was packed this morning with flatbeds bringing cars in. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 It's normally white......But it can be many colors....the colors can be caused by what's in the cloud/air and the color of the bolt can also depend on how hot it is; the hotter the lightning, the closer the color will be to the end of the spectrum. Yes, I was reading about that too-- it's like star color-- the redder the cooler, the bluer or "violet-er"/"purpler" the hotter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadojay Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Getting absolutely destroyed right now in Wheeling, Illinois...Wow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Was watching the awesome storms over Queens from my balcony in Brooklyn. Took this pic at sunset awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Its old news, but I was in Rhode Island last week and missed this (not by much...great light shows off to the southwest). Loved the cool video. We did get some awesome mammatus (best I have seen), but no rain: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sickman Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Its old news, but I was in Rhode Island last week and missed this (not by much...great light shows off to the southwest). Loved the cool video. We did get some awesome mammatus (best I have seen), but no rain: Damn... that looks like some of the drawings of mammatus in those old grade-school weather books. That is sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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