MidwestChaser Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 What? It's best if you ignore him. The summer heat has melted his brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwburbschaser Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 It's best if you ignore him. The summer heat has melted his brain. The four days of summer heat this year was too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Haha^ The Loop is about to get hit pretty hard in a few minutes. Hopefully everyone takes cover - looks like a drencher! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 55 mph at ORD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 The four days of summer heat this year was too much? It is when said brain has the consistency of a snow cone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Gust front shows up nicely on this radar capture. Cell to the west bears watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castaway Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 The cell thats coming in right now from the west has been non stop lightning. Previous one just clipped us. This one is coming straight on going to be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 A few pics from this evening... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitown Storm Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 What a dud of a night. I think I got 3 drops of rain. Skilling showed reports of over an inch northern burbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Wow. A continuous line of severe warnings that stretch unbroken from Kalamazoo to Macomb county. Some places are getting their 4th severe thunderstorm of the day, and not a single watch for SE Michigan? WTF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Wow. A continuous line of severe warnings that stretch unbroken from Kalamazoo to Macomb county. Some places are getting their 4th severe thunderstorm of the day, and not a single watch for SE Michigan? WTF. Most of the severe warnings today have been outside of the watch box in the metro area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Quick time lapse of one of the storms earlier this eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Most of the severe warnings today have been outside of the watch box in the metro area. Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 A couple more weeks of this though and hello drought again. Are you serious with this? MKE has had 6.40" of rain since June 1st and 25.91" since the beginning of the year both of which are above normal. Please think before posting such nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Cold front! Storm intense enough to wake me up with lightning... First time that's happened. Didn't sound severe but I slept through the beginning so hey who knows? Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 4 Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Second severe storm of the day here in Canton. Winds were intense enough to knock our iron grill grate off the picnic table, definitely more lightning this go around than the severe storm earlier today. Third severe storm of the day for me, including the one up in Troy earlier. Very satisfied! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Cold front! Storm intense enough to wake me up with lightning... First time that's happened. Didn't sound severe but I slept through the beginning so hey who knows? Sent from my HTCONE 4 Beta Nonstop lightning here not only from this line but the one out over Lake Erie. Seen several transformer go too off to the NW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I'd rate this storm a 10 out of 10 for lightning, I haven't seen a gem like this in a few years while working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargers09 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Best storm to date this year. Branches down all over the subdivision. Great lightning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Congrats to those who got storms... Sounds like you got blitzed powerball. Unfortunately a full-on squall line never materialized (at least not yet), so the isolated nature of the storms left me with like a few minutes of moderate rain from a micro-shower... Nothing more than that. But so it goes. Sent from my HTCONE 4 Beta Well that turned out... a lit bit off. Got some good lightning from a cell that couldn't really get its act together in northwest Ohio. Holding on hope for a good lights show later tonight from these storms on the lower tier of counties in Michigan. Interesting day though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 A couple more weeks of this though and hello drought again. Simply because I was looking for a time to use this gif... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Are you serious with this? MKE has had 6.40" of rain since June 1st and 25.91" since the beginning of the year both of which are above normal. Please think before posting such nonsense. It was somewhat facetious but it seems like it doesn't take much in the summer when you have sunny, warm weather. Grass is starting to brown in spots, not much though. Still, if the next rain chances from Sunday through Tuesday fail to pan out, it might not be so far-fetched. That will take us to the end of July with just over a half inch for the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.B. LaForce Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Ehhh, at least we got some needed rain. My wx station measured 1.93" so far since about 10:30PM. It is a tipping bucket, and there were some heavy downpours, so I will need to go check the 4" raingauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I have not seen such intense rains like this since the training storms in July 2008. The last batch had the strongest winds here ( unlike the storms at started which prompted the severe t-storm warning ) which knocked out my power for a few seconds. Amazing light show. Couple of small storms just firing west of here. See what they do. Easily the best storms here since 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Ehhh, at least we got some needed rain. My wx station measured 1.93" so far since about 10:30PM. It is a tipping bucket, and there were some heavy downpours, so I will need to go check the 4" raingauge. VERY much needed rains here. Radar estimates of around 2 to 2+ across BC and even a couple of 2.5+ spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Unbelievable. As the line was about 20 miles west of here all these storms blew up over head Kitchener/Waterloo and this massive storm came together with the line. A legit wall cloud over the centre of the city formed and was spinning around, and I guess it could of produced but was undercut. Right as it was coming over the winds ripped and everything started flying away. We were in the basement so fast! Grabbed my laptop, grabbed the dog and we were gone. Right when we got down there the power went out and it was black. Was a thundering roar for minutes. The city is a mess right now. Huge trees down, hydro lines down, a lot of bad damage. Took a quick tour around I've never seen such damage here before. Roads are closed, cars crushed, fences smashed, gazebos blown over... etc! The airport about 6 miles southeast of here clocked winds at 74mph. It could have been close to 80mph up here. That was insanity. Got loads of pictures I can upload later. *wall cloud was confirmed by professional storm chasers with photo evidence Wow, that sounds pretty bad...of course I never get that up here. CTV for Kitchener-Waterloo is talking about the damage but they aren't saying its as bad as your putting it. Just trees uprooted, some minor damage to some buildings and power outages. Great footage on their newscast too. You got the storm I was looking forward too. So how does it rank? Looking forward to those pics, no other info about a wall cloud in the city. Bit of a disappointing chase day. Drove around for about 6 hours and of course theres an isolated tornado warned cell right over my house and I'm nowhere near...... pics to come. Ouch, sorry. I was even temped myself to go out today but nothing within reach was that amazing...there was a Mount Forest cell that I liked (and so did Martian on TWN) with some brief rotation. I thought all you needed were the winds (greater than 90kph/56mph), hail (15mms diameter canada, 25 mms/1" in the US), frequent lightning, or heavy downpours (25mm/hr or 75mms/3 hrs) to consider it a hit in the warning department on both sides of the border. thunderstorm-related gusts of 56kt/104kph at YYZ and 64kt/119kph at YKF are good enough for me to call it a hit in the severe thunderstorm department in my book. That is correct, but I personally didn't experience severe conditions but it sounds like quite a few did in KW and parts of Toronto. Amazingly, the storms are still going with hail and all, all over southern Ontario; can't remember such a busy convective day around here. In fact, as I was typing this there was another cell to hit me! It was the 3rd one, moderate rain and some CC lightning. I was waiting for it after everyone else got their 3rd serving. 400,000 people left without power in Quebec and 1 death, 10 injured. That's 600,000 without power in this part of the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 VERY much needed rains here. Radar estimates of around 2 to 2+ across BC and even a couple of 2.5+ spots. Most of the heavy rain danced around the airport, but I'd bet we had at least an inch+ over on my side of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Quick time lapse of one of the storms earlier this eve. = Nice! Sweet pics and vids to those who captured them. ---- Lightning and thunder still going on here! 5th and what I presume to be final round of convection today, at 3:00am. Still a solid light show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Wow, that sounds pretty bad...of course I never get that up here. CTV for Kitchener-Waterloo is talking about the damage but they aren't saying its as bad as your putting it. Just trees uprooted, some minor damage to some buildings and power outages. Great footage on their newscast too. You got the storm I was looking forward too. So how does it rank? Looking forward to those pics, no other info about a wall cloud in the city. Ouch, sorry. I was even temped myself to go out today but nothing within reach was that amazing...there was a Mount Forest cell that I liked (and so did Martian on TWN) with some brief rotation. That is correct, but I personally didn't experience severe conditions but it sounds like quite a few did in KW and parts of Toronto. Amazingly, the storms are still going with hail and all, all over southern Ontario; can't remember such a busy convective day around here. In fact, as I was typing this there was another cell to hit me! It was the 3rd one, moderate rain and some CC lightning. I was waiting for it after everyone else got their 3rd serving. 400,000 people left without power in Quebec and 1 death, 10 injured. That's 600,000 without power in this part of the country. Would love to see wall cloud pics of that storm. I have some pics of it from a distance. I chased the cell in Mount Forest today and video'd/snapped a few shots of a lowering/weakly rotating wall cloud on it. Will upload tomorrow night.... too many pics to go through and I need to crash. Been watching storms for 13 hours now... LOVE IT! Best single storm day of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Most of the heavy rain danced around the airport, but I'd bet we had at least an inch+ over on my side of town. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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