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June 21-27 Severe Weather


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Watch issued for IA/IL/MO.

 

Should see the complex across IA/MO develop into a nice elongated bow. Unfortunately the lingering activity across the DVN/LOT CWA's probably killed the threat farther north.

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 354

   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

   1215 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013

   THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

     SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN IOWA

     NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS

     NORTHERN MISSOURI

   * EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1215 PM UNTIL

     700 PM CDT.

   * PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...

     NUMEROUS DAMAGING WIND GUSTS LIKELY WITH A FEW SIGNIFICANT GUSTS

       TO 80 MPH POSSIBLE

     SEVERAL LARGE HAIL EVENTS WITH A FEW VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 2

       INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE

     A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE

   THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75

   STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF

   LAMONI IOWA TO 10 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON ILLINOIS.

   FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH

   OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

   PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

   REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE

   FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH

   AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR

   THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS

   AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY

   DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

   &&

   DISCUSSION...FURTHER UPSCALE CONVECTIVE GROWTH AND INTENSIFICATION

   OF THE ONGOING MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA AND

   NORTHERN MISSOURI APPEARS LIKELY DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.  AS THE

   ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD POOL STRENGTHENS/DEEPENS...BROADER SCALE

   STRONG/DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST IOWA AND

   PARTS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI...INTO NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS BY 21-23Z.

 

 

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I'm liking my position in Peoria right now Joe ;) Needed a boat here last night/this morning though lol.

You're looking good down there, especially with the OFB in the area...Though it might wash out with the amount of clearing/heating taking place across N. IL now.

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I kinda like Tuesday and especially Wednesday's potential around here. Shear definitely looks better than what we've seen lately and that is going to make a difference I think. Would think that Wednesday's probs will get raised in some of that large 15% area as we get closer.

 

I agree and so does SPC. I know it's early, but I'm thinking somewhere around ILX (Bloomington/Champaign/Springfield) might be the bullseye Wednesday for some sup action, with severe quickly spreading east.

LATER IN THE DAY STRONG HEATING ACROSS THE MID MS VALLEY WILL RESULT   IN SIGNIFICANT DESTABILIZATION...SBCAPE IN EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG.    DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS FORECAST TO INCREASE SUBSTANTIALLY ACROSS THIS   REGION AS SHORT-WAVE DIGS SEWD RESULTING IN SFC-6KM SHEAR ON THE   ORDER OF 35KT ACROSS MUCH OF IL/IND BY PEAK HEATING.  FORECAST   SOUNDINGS FROM BOTH THE NAM/GFS EXHIBIT STRONG INSTABILITY WITH A   VEERED BUT SUFFICIENTLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT FOR POTENTIAL SUPERCELL   STRUCTURES.  HAIL/WIND WOULD DEFINITELY BE EXPECTED WITH THIS   ACTIVITY IF SHORT-WAVE DIGS AS FORECAST.
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Tornado warning in eastern IA.

 

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
118 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN IOWA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA...
  NORTHERN KEOKUK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA...

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT

* AT 117 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHAT CHEER...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS
           WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS
           LIKELY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SIGOURNEY...WHAT CHEER...DELTA...KESWICK...MILLERSBURG...SOUTH
  ENGLISH...NORTH ENGLISH...KINROSS...HARPER...PARNELL...COAL
  CREEK...GIBSON...THORNBURG...SIG-NOR FIELD AIRPORT AND WEBSTER.

OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE KEOKUK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS...KEOKUK
COUNTY EXPO...LAKE YENRUOGIS COUNTY PARK AND BELVA DEER RECREATION
AREA.

 

 

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Where are you tracking the CAPE values from?

 

Feels like it's destabilizing.

Surfaced Based looks like it was cracking 1500 west of will county...meso via SPC so...not up to the minute

 

a little late to the game today here...I feel varying stable and unstable breezes at my local here...any lake breezes or old boundaries lingering around?  or maybe just a little mixing?

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Surfaced Based looks like it was cracking 1500 west of will county...meso via SPC so...not up to the minute

 

a little late to the game today here...I feel varying stable and unstable breezes at my local here...any lake breezes or old boundaries lingering around?  or maybe just a little mixing?

 

I see. Would be cool if there was real time observations on CAPE values. There is a localized lake breeze by Alek. Offshore winds here and the temperature is climbing into the 80s.

 

Would be interesting to see a situation like yesterday's cells.

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I'm not seeing any obvious boundaries in your area...one well south is trying to retreat north but is washing out in the process.

 

Feels very stable/comfortable here lakeside.

 

K...thanks!  Yeah, starting to feel even warm and sticky even just in the shade of the garage....I don't have the sweaty garage floor yet....but starting to get that feel...we shall see

 

hopefully that garbage north of QC can clean out and left the warm wing do it's thing...get that sucker further west more organized

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LOT's latest....

 

//DISCUSSION...UPDATED 18Z...

WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS IN PLACE ALONG WITH VARIOUS BOUNDARIES TO
KEEP NEXT ROUND OF SHRA/TSRA IN THE FORECAST INTO THIS EVENING.
ATMOSPHERE TO CONTINUE TO RECOVER FROM MORNING CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY.
THINKING IS A FEW TSRA ARE POSSIBLE BY MID AFTERNOON IN AREAS OF
LESSENING/THINNING OF CLOUD COVER AND MAY EXPAND IN COVERAGE BY LATE
AFTERNOON IF MORE WIDESPREAD SUNSHINE OCCURS.  CIRROSTRATUS SHIELD
ASSOCIATED WITH ORGANIZED AREAS OF TSRA/SHRA OVER IA MAY LIMIT
AMOUNT/DURATION OF SUN. TSRA CLUSTERS OVER IA EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE
FURTHER AND TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND POSSIBLY NORTHWEST
INDIANA INTO THE EVENING.

SURFACE WARM FRONT EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE VICINITY OR JUST SOUTH
OF THE TERMINALS.  GIVEN HUMID ATMOSPHERE AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL
AREAS OF MAINLY LIGHT FOG ARE LIKELY OVERNIGHT.

 

last few scans has the Iowa line starting to look pretty dang healthy

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IND Latest

 

.NEAR TERM /REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT/...
ISSUED AT 235 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013

CONVECTION HAS BEEN SLOW TO DEVELOP OVER MOST OF THE AREA AS
INSTABILITY HAS BEEN HELD IN CHECK BY CLOUD COVER. APPEARS THE BEST
CHANCES FOR DEVELOPMENT OVER THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON WILL BE OVER
THE SOUTHERN/SOUTHEASTERN ZONES WHERE A WEAK VORTICITY AXIS IS
DRIFTING EAST.

OTHERWISE...CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IS CURRENTLY PUSHING THROUGH
IOWA/NORTHERN MISSOURI. MOST LIKELY PATH BASED ON THE LOCATION OF
THE 850MB JET WOULD BE GENERALLY TOWARDS NORTHERN ILLINOIS/NORTHWEST
INDIANA LATER THIS EVENING. HOWEVER A TURN TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST
INTO THE INSTABILITY AXIS CAN/T BE RULED OUT. WILL GO WITH SMALL
CHANCE POPS FOR TONIGHT...WITH THE HIGHEST POPS OVER THE NORTHWEST.

THE GFS MOS LOWS TONIGHT LOOK REASONABLE BASED ON PROGGED LOW LEVEL
THICKNESSES.

 

 

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SPC now revising their thinking about se movement of the complex....

WITH AMPLE SHEAR INDICATED OVER THE AREA AND A MESOLOW EVIDENT --   NOW CROSSING CENTRAL IA...EXPECT STORMS TO REMAIN AT LEAST LOOSELY   ORGANIZED IN AN ARC-SHAPED BAND AS THEY SPREAD EWD AT AROUND 40 KT   TOWARD THE MS VALLEY.  WHILE THREATS FOR LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND   HAIL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WW AREA...EXPANSION OF THIS POTENTIAL   EWD/NEWD WITH TIME WILL LIKELY REQUIRE NEW WW ISSUANCE IN THE NEXT   HOUR OR TWO.
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Severe or not, the IA/N. MO MCS is going to push east through the LOT CWA, not SE.

Bank it.

 

you calling "bank"? ... or saying "take it to the bank"?  :P

 

trends favors your thought strongly, plus plenty of destabilizing going on area wide now...

 

and this....

 

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1202

   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

   0211 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013

   AREAS AFFECTED...NRN MO/SERN IA/SRN WI/NRN IL/NWRN INDIANA

   CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 354...

   VALID 241911Z - 242115Z

   THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 354

   CONTINUES.

   SUMMARY...ISOLATED SEVERE THREAT CONTINUES ACROSS WRN PORTIONS OF WW

   354.  AS THREAT SPREADS GRADUALLY EWD...NEW WW WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED

   ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NRN IL AND POSSIBLY INTO SRN WI/NWRN

   INDIANA.

   DISCUSSION...LATEST RADAR LOOP SHOWS A BAND OF STRONG/LOCALLY SEVERE

   STORMS CROSSING SERN IA AND ADJACENT NERN MO ATTM...ALONG AN

   INSTABILITY GRADIENT ON THE NRN FRINGE OF A MODERATE CAPE

   ENVIRONMENT ACROSS MO/SRN AND WRN IL. 

   WITH AMPLE SHEAR INDICATED OVER THE AREA AND A MESOLOW EVIDENT --

   NOW CROSSING CENTRAL IA...EXPECT STORMS TO REMAIN AT LEAST LOOSELY

   ORGANIZED IN AN ARC-SHAPED BAND AS THEY SPREAD EWD AT AROUND 40 KT

   TOWARD THE MS VALLEY.  WHILE THREATS FOR LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND

   HAIL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WW AREA...EXPANSION OF THIS POTENTIAL

   EWD/NEWD WITH TIME WILL LIKELY REQUIRE NEW WW ISSUANCE IN THE NEXT

   HOUR OR TWO.

 

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the near total lack of shear is evident on the super low MCS maintenance parameters but with peak heating it might just be able to maintain in respectable form all the way to the lakefront.

I think values of 40 and above are fairly good.  That's why I was thinking the complex would make it to the Ottawa area before curving se.  Now I think it might hold together and move more eastward fashion.

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