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2013 Mt. Holly CWA Convection Thread


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Wow, that is impressive. I do think tomorrow has a lot of potential.  Been alerting folks here in Camden County with Skywarn and the EOC as well.  We'll have to see how this all unfolds, but certainly things have picked up with all the heavy rain we got and now some of the severe we've been seeing.  Curious to see if Mount Holly may issue a briefing package for this event. 

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Wow, that is impressive. I do think tomorrow has a lot of potential.  Been alerting folks here in Camden County with Skywarn and the EOC as well.  We'll have to see how this all unfolds, but certainly things have picked up with all the heavy rain we got and now some of the severe we've been seeing.  Curious to see if Mount Holly may issue a briefing package for this event. 

I'm betting they will, considering we've got flood potential to the north and high-end SVR to the south.  Impacts the whole CWA in one way or another!

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I accidentally posted that in MA subforum, meant to bring that up here. Being a skeptic from coastal central NJ I can't help but worry about that around here, especially with an unusually strong LP approaching from the west. And it will all come down to where exactly the warm front is, perhaps modulated by overnight convection?..somewhere just south of there or inland enough along it there should be an impressive tornado threat, and then further south a high end damaging wind event through DC/VA. 

 

For the record, I'm not really in agreement with you here. This has high end potential all over it, though the risk for something to not pan out increases around here versus further south.

 

i think the southeast wind will put a lid on the severe weather threat anywhere north and east of a nw to se oriented line from hunterdon county to monmouth county. the one thing that concerns me is that the forecast models are all very persistent in indicating a late-game push of the wf from southeast pa into central new jersey to around staten islands latitude at 18z tomorrow. that coincides with the arrival of the best forcing and there could be an instability surge to near or just south of the  fronts position at that time.

 

given the more impressive low level shear along the wf and the surface low so nearby..you have to wonder if there could be multiple rotating storms along or near the wf at some point tomorrow afternoon...with the greater widespread wind damage threat farther south extending from southeast pa and southern nj into the mid atlantic. although i hate looking at simulated radar images the hi-res nam illustrates this point a bit, with a signal for some impressive updrafts near and along the warm front with the wind damage threat extending south from there.

 

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/NAMSFC4_12z/rad33.gif

 

the southeast winds and cool ocean waters will certainly kill this threat for nyc, ct and long island but the extent to which the severe threat develops into new jersey is still very much in question. i think the potential is there for a higher end event with wind damage and a few tornadoes along the warm front...its not often we see this deep of a system and this pronounced of a warm front this time of year. 

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i think the southeast wind will put a lid on the severe weather threat anywhere north and east of a nw to se oriented line from hunterdon county to monmouth county. the one thing that concerns me is that the forecast models are all very persistent in indicating a late-game push of the wf from southeast pa into central new jersey to around staten islands latitude at 18z tomorrow. that coincides with the arrival of the best forcing and there could be an instability surge to near or just south of the  fronts position at that time.

 

given the more impressive low level shear along the wf and the surface low so nearby..you have to wonder if there could be multiple rotating storms along or near the wf at some point tomorrow afternoon...with the greater widespread wind damage threat farther south extending from southeast pa and southern nj into the mid atlantic. although i hate looking at simulated radar images the hi-res nam illustrates this point a bit, with a signal for some impressive updrafts near and along the warm front with the wind damage threat extending south from there.

 

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/NAMSFC4_12z/rad33.gif

 

the southeast winds and cool ocean waters will certainly kill this threat for nyc, ct and long island but the extent to which the severe threat develops into new jersey is still very much in question. i think the potential is there for a higher end event with wind damage and a few tornadoes along the warm front...its not often we see this deep of a system and this pronounced of a warm front this time of year. 

 

 

All good points. You have to wonder to which degree impressive forcing/lift will also make up for less instability in some of the areas you outlined as well. Going to be a fun day to watch unfold.

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to simplify it...like during winter when you are 36 hrs from an event and like 10 runs in a row it shows .5-1 of qpf and this run drops .1

 

 

Haha yeah i got that part. But was just wondering if it came true what would it mean for severe risk/rain threat. Trying to pass the time before lunch

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The new 12z GFS/UKMET clearly show a more progressive evolution as a convectively-induced vorticity maximum rides east a bit ahead in the long-wave. They both also show the SLP diving more southeastward throughout the afternoon and have better timing with current trends/placement of features than the slower 00z ECMWF (all of which is outlined nicely in this afternoon's model discussion).

 

Clearly, the situation tomorrow relies heavily on what kind of beast develops today in the Midwest and the effect it has on the mid levels.

 

Even with the progressive/further south scenario, a tornadic window may still exist late morning-early afternoon for the areas outlined in this morning's hatched zone from the SPC.

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I think it is safe to say the radar has exploded in the Chicago area over the past 2 or 3 hours. Went from nothing of significance to quite a significant event. Watches and warnings have followed suit. Nor sure what it means - if anything for us - but pretty impresssive radar. Probably quite a light show to follow once the sun goes down in that area.

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question from a very non-technical person (and I apologize if I am intruding); from what I am reading it looks like this will be a mostly S. Jersey event, and Mercerville (Hamilton Twp. near Trenton) will be spared.  Am I reading the posts correctly?  (and again, please forgive me if I am intruding....I usually just lurk)

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question from a very non-technical person (and I apologize if I am intruding); from what I am reading it looks like this will be a mostly S. Jersey event, and Mercerville (Hamilton Twp. near Trenton) will be spared.  Am I reading the posts correctly?  (and again, please forgive me if I am intruding....I usually just lurk)

it all depends on the warm front. It could reach as far north as monmouth county, or not even get to PHL. Just gotta keep on top of the threat and surface obs.

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