Hvward Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Got a nice shower last night, that was refreshing! Hoping for more today! The other night when we had the stronger storms come in I was out time-lapsing the event and caught a nice lowering/possible funnel cloud right behind the Asheville skyline. I though it was pretty cool as a weather geek so I figured I would share! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 2:44 PM, Hvward said: Got a nice shower last night, that was refreshing! Hoping for more today! The other night when we had the stronger storms come in I was out time-lapsing the event and caught a nice lowering/possible funnel cloud right behind the Asheville skyline. I though it was pretty cool as a weather geek so I figured I would share! This is what the storms are looking like from 70,000 feet above! NASA had incredible day yesterday collecting data. More research flights on tap for today with convection already starting. (Photo credit: Stu Broce, ER-2 pilot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 4:09 PM, MikeGold said: This is what the storms are looking like from 70,000 feet above! NASA had incredible day yesterday collecting data. More research flights on tap for today with convection already starting. (Photo credit: Stu Broce, ER-2 pilot). Awesome view! Today should be another fun/interesting day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 4:24 PM, Hvward said: Awesome view! Today should be another fun/interesting day. If you watch the radar..you can see it being moved around..focusing on a specific sector..they are actually following the location of the research plane I believe. http://wdssii.nssl.noaa.gov/web/wdss2/products/radar/NOXP/AGIF_NOXP_Reflectivity_04.00.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 4:09 PM, MikeGold said: This is what the storms are looking like from 70,000 feet above! NASA had incredible day yesterday collecting data. More research flights on tap for today with convection already starting. (Photo credit: Stu Broce, ER-2 pilot). Nice. I just made it one of my backgrounds. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Just woke up and we are getting rain and everything is soaked. Got some good rain last night and also Tuesday we got some good rains. The garden is loving this and so am I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 More light rain and sitting at 69 comfortable degrees in mid June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Near Balsam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Seems like the showers are building right over us. We are getting heavier rainfall know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 7:44 PM, Met1985 said: Seems like the showers are building right over us. We are getting heavier rainfall know. Yeah that storm is just training right over top of your area. Pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 8:00 PM, Hvward said: Yeah that storm is just training right over top of your area. Pretty awesome. Ya we are still getting rainfall. Also pretty cool right to the north of me is blue sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 8:08 PM, Met1985 said: Ya we are still getting rainfall. Also pretty cool right to the north of me is blue sky. Again light to moderate rainfall falling still. A heavier burst has come through. Has been raining for about the past 4 hours I suppose. Temps steady at 65 degrees. What a wonderful treat this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Big cell starting up just to the southwest of my location. Big dark clouds building up all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Got some good pics of cumulonimbus clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 On 6/12/2014 at 9:53 PM, Met1985 said: Got some good pics of cumulonimbus clouds. Yeah Met I was out time-lapsing one and those updrafts and they were amazing! Very pretty structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 On 6/13/2014 at 1:17 AM, Hvward said: Yeah Met I was out time-lapsing one and those updrafts and they were amazing! Very pretty structure. Ya I will post m pics tomorrow. Had some very good rain today. It virtually rained all day and evening picking up about .60 inches of rainfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 On 6/13/2014 at 4:10 AM, Met1985 said: Ya I will post m pics tomorrow. Had some very good rain today. It virtually rained all day and evening picking up about .60 inches of rainfall. Plott Balsams absolutely nailed again yesterday. It appeared from the NO-XP radar that there was even some brief mini-supercell structures. One appeared to be centered over Waterrock Knob slowly spinning away then fell apart as it drifted along the ridge towards my place. Another one was located SW of Sylva. I am not sure "mini" is the proper way to describe them..perhaps "micro" supercells! Normal radar would not have been able to detect enough detail to see the minor rotation. (Note: From flight log,.."In the NOXP domain, small weak velocity couplets were observed. In addition, preferential decay of reflectivity appeared to mirror high peaks and/or ridgelines." This seems to confirm that rotation that I noticed yesterday.) As you can see from the disdrometer output-it was an active 24 hours. Once again NASA was all over it doing "racetrack" flight patterns with 2 aircraft(one high one low) all around Haywood county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 On 6/13/2014 at 10:14 AM, MikeGold said: Plott Balsams absolutely nailed again yesterday. It appeared from the NO-XP radar that there was even some brief mini-supercell structures. One appeared to be centered over Waterrock Knob slowly spinning away then fell apart as it drifted along the ridge towards my place. Another one was located SW of Sylva. I am not sure "mini" is the proper way to describe them..perhaps "micro" supercells! Normal radar would not have been able to detect enough detail to see the minor rotation. As you can see from the disdrometer output-it was an active 24 hours. Once again NASA was all over it doing "racetrack" flight patterns with 2 aircraft(one high one low) all around Haywood county. A couple from my time-lapse yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 More storms and rain this afternoon. Just woke up and we are getting a good thunderstorm. Very cool info Mike. The little supercells that develop in the mountains can become very intense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 On 6/13/2014 at 7:40 PM, Met1985 said: More storms and rain this afternoon. Just woke up and we are getting a good thunderstorm. Very cool info Mike. The little supercells that develop in the mountains can become very intense. Mtn hit again this afternoon with a neat little ridge induced storm.....turning into a Monsoon with almost daily showers...storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 On 6/13/2014 at 11:13 PM, MikeGold said: Mtn hit again this afternoon with a neat little ridge induced storm.....turning into a Monsoon with almost daily showers...storms. I agree Mike. After having a bit of a dry spell we have picked up over 1.5 inches of rainfall in 5 days. Also very steady good soaking rain. We had .63 inches just today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 We got hammered by that storm this evening. We picked up .50 inches of rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGold Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 On 6/16/2014 at 12:01 AM, Met1985 said: We got hammered by that storm this evening. We picked up .50 inches of rain. Met, that storm was a right mover and rotating per NO-XP radar. In fact, it was the very last storm sampled by the radar before it was turned off for good ending the intensive phase of the research program. It was fun while it lasted! Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 On 6/16/2014 at 9:45 AM, MikeGold said: Met, that storm was a right mover and rotating per NO-XP radar. In fact, it was the very last storm sampled by the radar before it was turned off for good ending the intensive phase of the research program. It was fun while it lasted! Sigh... Man cannot believe this is it. Maybe they put a permanent radar around here one day. Hopefully they got some great info and wow on that storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 K values are a widespread 36 across WNC this am. Should be an active day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Wow now up to 38 over N Buncombe Co. and K values of 40 showing up over S Buncombe and S WNC. Impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 On 6/16/2014 at 3:49 PM, Hvward said: Wow now up to 38 over N Buncombe Co. and K values of 40 showing up over S Buncombe and S WNC. Impressive. We got hammered today with a severe storm. We have very heavy rainfall and about 30 minutes worth of dimed size hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNC_Fort Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Finally got a heck of a storm today. Over an inch of rain, and I mean pouring rain, plus hail that ranged from penny size to slightly less than quarter size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 On 6/17/2014 at 12:47 AM, westmc9th said: Finally got a heck of a storm today. Over an inch of rain, and I mean pouring rain, plus hail that ranged from penny size to slightly less than quarter size. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Nice guys.. good sized hail! I didn't see a drop downtown lol. For today, currently K values are 34 around WNC which is a tad low but those will rise i suspect as daytime heating kicks in. Also mid level lapse rates look to be somewhat supportive of storm growth so I bet some will get storms today around wnc. I wouldn't expect it downtown though because everything dries up as soon as it hits the french broad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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