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June 1, 2012 - Severe Thunderstorms/Tornadoes Event


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Oh, I so cannot wait to chase tomorrow... This is going to be good!

LWX recent discussion:

ONCE THE WARM FRONT IS THROUGH...CWA WILL BE WARM-SECTORED AHEAD OF

A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. 12Z NAM/GFS POSITION THE

FRONT OVER WESTERN/CENTRAL OHIO AT 12Z FRIDAY WITH 999/1000 MB LOW

PRESSURE JUST WEST OF CLEVELAND. TSTMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT

AS IT PUSHES EASTWARD. FAVORABLE SEVERE PARAMETERS WILL BE IN PLACE

OVER OUR CWA. FORECAST SBCAPE AROUND 1000-2000 J/KG WILL BE PLENTY

TO TRIGGER STORMS...AND SHEAR WILL INCREASE AS A NEGATIVELY-TILTED

UPPER TROUGH APPROACHES. HELICITY ON DULLES AIRPORT NAM SOUNDING

APPROACHES 200 M2/S2 BY 21Z. SPC MAINTAINS SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE

THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION...WITH POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING

WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES.

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Hilarious when someone goes to another forum to trash the PHL forum, when pretty much all you add to our forum is whining when you get missed. Especially when there has been a lot of good discussion the last couple of days. Don't you have some glue to sniff? On top of it, you were completely wrong about a tornado threat around here, it was in New England, lol. But I won't muck up the MA forum anymore, just had to say it.

Meh...try to keep this out of our forum/thread :(

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LWX language makes me pretty confident at least one EF-4 will hit the area. Perhaps a half dozen. There are 26 thes in the discussion which correlates heavily to strong rotating updrafts.

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Obvious Troll is Obvious... and perhaps slightly jealous.

I was kinda just mocking yodas overanalysis of wording. I won't even touch the jealous part since you probably have some clue what ive seen stormwise in the past week.

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Not really sure what to really think of the 0z NAM. I really wish it would have shown a boost in the instability, however, models always tend to have trouble with clouds/sunshine in these types of setups and you never really know until the AM when you can watch satellite trends and such.

Anyways there is a lot of good and then there is not alot of good. The NAM and the SREF continue to indicate a deepening sfc low with a deepening trough approaching from the west overspreading the region with some very solid height falls. As the afternoon goes on winds at 925/850/700mb really begins to increase with a great deal of directional shear as well so 0-1km and 0-3km helicity will be incredibly high.

500mb winds seem to be rather meh (still decent) but I don't understand why the NAM is weakening them somewhat as the trough approaches...this tends to lead to 0-6km shear values which are alright. 250mb winds look very solid and does place the region in the RFQ of the ULJ.

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Meh

BTW, I see CWG went Storm Threat Level 3 for tomorrow

I would love to be there for a good threat and it looks like the best in a while... I just think the area or perhaps the northeast as a whole tends to go way overboard with this stuff. I might be totally wrong but the day just does not seem as amazingly incredible as a lot of people see it.

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LWX language makes me pretty confident at least one EF-4 will hit the area. Perhaps a half dozen. There are 26 thes in the discussion which correlates heavily to strong rotating updrafts.

There probably will be half a dozen EF-4s in the area next 150 years.

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I would love to be there for a good threat and it looks like the best in a while... I just think the area or perhaps the northeast as a whole tends to go way overboard with this stuff. I might be totally wrong but the day just does not seem as amazingly incredible as a lot of people see it.

I dont think its going to be all like June 2008 again... but its something that will likely be better than our run of the mill type severe weather we see around here

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Tomorrow, the 500mb winds in the Mid-Atlantic area will be 30-40 knots, and the 300mb winds will be 50-55 knots. 0-6km shear should be 30-40 knots for most of the area. CAPE will be 1000-2500 J/kg in most of the Mid-Atlantic up to Washington DC. Washington should be at the north end of the higher CAPE. Storm Relative helicity should be up around 100 m2/s2 for a good bit of the area, perhaps 100-300 north of Washington. I think the forcing might be too strong, leading to a dominant squall line instead of a lot of supercells. The SPC may indicate a moderate risk for wind damage from PA/MD border to the SC/NC border.

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I dont think its going to be all like June 2008 again... but its something that will likely be better than our run of the mill type severe weather we see around here

The pattern is nothing like June 2008 so I agree it won't be like that.

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I would love to be there for a good threat and it looks like the best in a while... I just think the area or perhaps the northeast as a whole tends to go way overboard with this stuff. I might be totally wrong but the day just does not seem as amazingly incredible as a lot of people see it.

Totally agreed- We can cash in on major winter storms and that's just about it. Max for us in a generation for hurricane left-overs was Isabel. Tornado was La Plata, but that didn't happen as part of a major outbreak-- maybe Ivan spiral bands came closest to an area-wide outbreak. Reference 6/08. but still many locations didn't experience anything severe.

I saw 40-45 mph gusts and heavy rain during the line this past Sunday.. then I drove in heavy rain and some 35 mph gusts last night. In any given year, that's about as exciting weather as I will see in week. What is everyone's expectations, and if it's now more than what I saw on Sunday, what exactly are you hoping to see?

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Tomorrow, the 500mb winds in the Mid-Atlantic area will be 30-40 knots, and the 300mb winds will be 50-55 knots. 0-6km shear should be 30-40 knots for most of the area. CAPE will be 1000-2500 J/kg in most of the Mid-Atlantic up to Washington DC. Washington should be at the north end of the higher CAPE. Storm Relative helicity should be up around 100 m2/s2 for a good bit of the area, perhaps 100-300 north of Washington. I think the forcing might be too strong, leading to a dominant squall line instead of a lot of supercells. The SPC may indicate a moderate risk for wind damage from PA/MD border to the SC/NC border.

Thanks :)

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Totally agreed- We can cash in on major winter storms and that's just about it. Max for us in a generation for hurricane left-overs was Isabel. Tornado was La Plata, but that didn't happen as part of a major outbreak-- maybe Ivan spiral bands came closest to an area-wide outbreak. Reference 6/08. but still many locations didn't experience anything severe.

I saw 40-45 mph gusts and heavy rain during the line this past Sunday.. then I drove in heavy rain and some 35 mph gusts last night. In any given year, that's about as exciting weather as I will see in week. What is everyone's expectations, and if it's now more than what I saw on Sunday, what exactly are you hoping to see?

It's all very scare based these days. Maybe it's always been that way but at least since I've been watching it, seems moreso in the past few years. We just happen to live in an area where it's very hard to get a setup that produces a major outbreak or something. It's looked like primarily a wind threat.. and I would not be surprised if there was no mod risk as that seems conditional. However, it is the 95 corridor and SPC probably is pressured like anyone else to be extra cautious due to the population. I'm sure if I'm wrong I'll be forced to eat my words here afterwards.. but if the reverse probably not so much for others as "something went wrong to avert a much worse situation." But yeah, even in a worst case scenario it's highly likely that a vast majority won't see true severe conditions and I'm not sure that's something that is accurately conveyed anywhere.

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I hate how moist the mid-levels are and how the Cape profiles are so skinny. Unless we can see sufficient destabilization like past runs were showing I'm really afraid this could be more of an isolated severe event with heavy rain/flash flooding the more predominant threat. I mean the helicity/shear are nice but you need sufficient updraft support so the shear doesn't overpower the updrafts.

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It's all very scare based these days. Maybe it's always been that way but at least since I've been watching it, seems moreso in the past few years. We just happen to live in an area where it's very hard to get a setup that produces a major outbreak or something. It's looked like primarily a wind threat.. and I would not be surprised if there was no mod risk as that seems conditional. However, it is the 95 corridor and SPC probably is pressured like anyone else to be extra cautious due to the population. I'm sure if I'm wrong I'll be forced to eat my words here afterwards.. but if the reverse probably not so much for others as "something went wrong to avert a much worse situation." But yeah, even in a worst case scenario it's highly likely that a vast majority won't see true severe conditions and I'm not sure that's something that is accurately conveyed anywhere.

Right, and that's what's amusing about the 6/08 outbreak referenced as if it were some sort of ultimate event. 7/10 was worse across *specific* local areas, as 6/08 was worse in others towns. Most likely for anyone in this area, the "worst" thunderstorm event they ever experience would be from anything other than a region-wide outbreak.

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Right, and that's what's amusing about the 6/08 outbreak referenced as if it were some sort of ultimate event. 7/10 was worse across *specific* local areas, as 6/08 was worse in others towns. Most likely for anyone in this area, the "worst" thunderstorm event they ever experience would be from anything other than a region-wide outbreak.

Tell me about It, 7/7/11, I had 70-80mph localized winds, trees were sheared apart, roofs blown off an apartment complex down the street. That day: a see text risk 5%

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Right, and that's what's amusing about the 6/08 outbreak referenced as if it were some sort of ultimate event. 7/10 was worse across *specific* local areas, as 6/08 was worse in others towns. Most likely for anyone in this area, the "worst" thunderstorm event they ever experience would be from anything other than a region-wide outbreak.

I think the one thing about 6/08 was simply the fact that there were multiple rounds of severe storms which in itself is pretty uncommon for the area of course. But otherwise I'd tend to agree that a lot of the really powerful events have been fairly localized. Sometimes it's fun to frenzy just to frenzy.. keeps everyone interested. From a pure pattern perspective tomorrow remains really messy -- it has some of the look but it's just not coming together right. I'd be surprised if it reached any of the highest end potential discussed at this point.

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