HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Not a drop of rain here. Still at 0.29" for the month. Ouch And on BOX, where are the PNS reports now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Wow what' a day. I'm beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Wow what' a day. I'm beat. Good job by you and other mets/enthusiasts, that spelled this out well recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I saw around 8 to 12 individual thunderstorms, drove through at least five. 8-12 lollis, not bad The 30 c/g strikes in 10 min near I-93 in Wilmington was actually the best part....no power in Wilmington throughout town when I was driving through, yet they missed storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTWeatherFreak Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Wow what' a day. I'm beat. any reports at the station of funnel sightings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I saw around 8 to 12 individual thunderstorms, drove through at least five. 8-12 lollis, not bad were you working or juat driving around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 any reports at the station of funnel sightings? No didn't see much on radar that made me think tornado either. There appears to have been a pretty impressive microburst in Danbury and bethel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 It was constant thunder for about 5 minutes straight... sounded like a jet.... never heard anything like that before. 6/95 and 8/2000 . only times I recall "constant thunder" or what is excessive c/g lightning living in that area, in 25 years. today was sort of like 6/20/95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 After reading the last 5 pages of this thread i have to at some of the post, Reminds me of a lot of the winter storms that some were on the outside looking in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Awesome day all! Thanks to all the mets and others posting thoughts / obs / pics. The north shore cell was the winner for me... still astonished by that scud / funnel cloud at Logan and velocity couplet over Boston harbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ct_yankee Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 any reports at the station of funnel sightings? I didn't call in what I saw in North Haven mainly because it was very brief and I thought it had little chance of touching down, the updraft base it was under was already falling apart. But also to be honest I can't absolutely be certain there really was strong rotation in it, I wasn't all that close to it. I can tell you for sure it looked and acted like a funnel, and I've seen my share. It had that classic laminar shape, it was definitely not an outflow feature, and there was definitely at least weak rotation in both the wall cloud-like lowering it was under and the parent updraft as a whole (radar confirms this). Frankly I'm surprised no one else reported it, it was way more funnel-like then many that do get reported. It didn't last long at all, though, so maybe I was the only one who noticed it. I'd say the feature in its clearly-recognizable-as-a-funnel phase lasted only about a minute or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wx4cast Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Hi Tim!! I wasted a sick day because I thought today was going to be good, now I'm pissed off. remember what Confucious say: "Better to be pissed off than pissed on." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Both my parents and Alison's had cable knocked out and tv possibly fried. Sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Today totally went as thought. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Today totally went as thought. Awesome. Yup pretty much AWT We were on from 215-630 straight. Busy day lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTWeatherFreak Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I didn't call in what I saw in North Haven mainly because it was very brief and I thought it had little chance of touching down, the updraft base it was under was already falling apart. But also to be honest I can't absolutely be certain there really was strong rotation in it, I wasn't all that close to it. I can tell you for sure it looked and acted like a funnel, and I've seen my share. It had that classic laminar shape, it was definitely not an outflow feature, and there was definitely at least weak rotation in both the wall cloud-like lowering it was under and the parent updraft as a whole (radar confirms this). Frankly I'm surprised no one else reported it, it was way more funnel-like then many that do get reported. It didn't last long at all, though, so maybe I was the only one who noticed it. I'd say the feature in its clearly-recognizable-as-a-funnel phase lasted only about a minute or two. Absolutely fascinating. Wish we had a pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Yup pretty much AWT We were on from 215-630 straight. Busy day lol. Yeah ct got it good. I sort of missed what happened there but I saw some cells that were severe there. When did the DXR micro occur? I want to look back tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Man the media went nuts here today. The anchors were clueless calling shelf clouds wall clouds and saying tornado warnings were issued for the state lol. That always happens when non mets talk weather. I wish I was in a whale watch boat in the harbor today. That cell was epic. I wonder if there was a spout well offshore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Man the media went nuts here today. The anchors were clueless calling shelf clouds wall clouds and saying tornado warnings were issued for the state lol. That always happens when non mets talk weather. I wish I was in a whale watch boat in the harbor today. That cell was epic. I wonder if there was a spout well offshore. What would you call that pic taken near Logan? (on WHDH) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 That radar signature was pretty impressive over Boston harbor, would love to see a waterspout with the skyline in the background... For those interested in the mechanics that over-produced today in the Boston metro / Eastern Mass, here's an interesting article on the interaction of a seabreeze convergence line and a southward moving outflow boundary to overcome insufficient shear and produce a tornado: http://www.nwas.org/ej/2005-EJ6/ Excerpt: "However, in special circumstances like those on 7 August 2003, the combination of outflow boundaries, sea breeze convergence and high surface based instability can overcome the lack of sufficient shear, producing significant tornadoes." "In the late afternoon and evening of 7 August 2003 two tornadoes produced significant damage across parts of metropolitan Palm Beach County, Florida. These tornadoes were produced as a strengthening updraft encountered cyclonic shear along an enhanced east/west sea breeze convergence line meeting a southward moving outflow boundary from the north." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROOSTA Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 As suspected from observation I was located on the backend of a microburst outflow produced scud. The cell itself was rotating. Great stuff today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 What would you call that pic taken near Logan? (on WHDH) That's hard to tell. It could be an updraft or scud type clouds. You can have scud clouds actually rotating? But it might not be truly a funnel. I'd have to see it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Girl Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 That's hard to tell. It could be an updraft or scud type clouds. You can have scud clouds actually rotating? But it might not be truly a funnel. I'd have to see it again. It looks like unflow into the storm IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 That's hard to tell. It could be an updraft or scud type clouds. You can have scud clouds actually rotating? But it might not be truly a funnel. I'd have to see it again. There was definite rotation on radar too, but does not mean it was a funnel cloud. I'm also skeptical that no other reports were made of a funnel in a busy airport... Watching WHDH now... no mention of it. Headline is the microburst in Arlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 As suspected from observation I was located on the backend of a microburst outflow produced scud. The cell itself was rotating. Great stuff today! Friend in Arlington said trees down everywhere.. wow.. most of it missed burlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 There was definite rotation on radar too, but does not mean it was a funnel cloud. I'm also skeptical that no other reports were made of a funnel in a busy airport... Watching WHDH now... no mention of it. Headline is the microburst in Arlington. Not sure what to call it... probably scud ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Not sure what to call it... probably scud ? Man that photo gets my heart rate up every time... I flew to Oklahoma and spent thousands of dollars this year and saw nothing that appealing. People will tell you: - it looks more laminar vs. ragged. - it appears to have an associated wall cloud - it was associated with a well-organized cell that had rotating velocities But I agree with Coastal... could just be very well timed scud (the walk bridge obscures the lower portion). Very hard to tell unless you see video confirming rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Always people complaining...I didn't get this, this event sucked...blah, blah, blah. This event actually did not suck and there were several microbursts/macrobursts throughout CT/MA and some areas were hit INCREDIBLY hard. When it comes to weather and especially convection not everyone is going to see something. When there are high risks issued in the Plains not everyone sees something there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Always people complaining...I didn't get this, this event sucked...blah, blah, blah. This event actually did not suck and there were several microbursts/macrobursts throughout CT/MA and some areas were hit INCREDIBLY hard. When it comes to weather and especially convection not everyone is going to see something. When there are high risks issued in the Plains not everyone sees something there. I just wanted some rain. I can't recall a summer where I have had so few thunderstorms. Great event overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nice pic from boston.com: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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