September 2014 General Discussion

[huronicane]

Over 400,000 customers are without power in Michigan right now. That's one of the highest totals I can ever remember.

Not sure where that ranks in history but I can only remember a few times where there were more outages. The derechoes of 1991, 1995 and 1998 come to mind. Come to think of it, the 90's were a crazy decade for Derechoes in this area.

Edit: There's over 300,000 customers with outages just in SEMI alone according to DTE. 129,000 in Wayne/Oakland/Macomb. Apparently it's still rising as more reports come in.

 

May 31, 1998 derecho had 800k across the state.  I am trying to find some totals for the July 2, 1997, outbreak.  I imagine that would  be pretty high.  We were without power for several days.

[Jonger]

A lot of rain fell over Lake Michigan during the last 48 hours.... Water levels have responded such.

 

[stormtrackertf]

May 31, 1998 derecho had 800k across the state.  I am trying to find some totals for the July 2, 1997, outbreak.  I imagine that would  be pretty high.  We were without power for several days.

I think the most was in the 1991 (I think it was that year) derecho, there were nearly 900k with that one.

I still remember 1997 like it was yesterday. Those straight line winds were wicked even in the non-tornadic areas.

[huronicane]

I think the most was in the 1991 (I think it was that year) derecho, there were nearly 900k with that one.

I still remember 1997 like it was yesterday. Those straight line winds were wicked even in the non-tornadic areas.

 

Looks like July 2, 1997, had 300k for DTE alone.  I wonder how many Consumers had.

 

One of the things that sticks in my mind most from July 2 was seeing a birch tree where the bark was peeled upward in a helix.

[Geos]

Outages in NE IL are coming down. 

Cook still has better than 67,000 customers still in the dark.

 

https://www.comed.com/_layouts/comedsp/OutageMap.aspx

 

Sounds like a wild evening in southern MI.

 

DTE Energy outage map: http://dteenergy.com/map/outage.html

[stormtrackertf]

Looks like July 2, 1997, had 300k for DTE alone.  I wonder how many Consumers had.

 

One of the things that sticks in my mind most from July 2 was seeing a birch tree where the bark was peeled upward in a helix.

The thing I remember most was seeing huge sections of bricks blown off the sides of the businesses in my neighborhood. Still have never seen anything quite like that again, plus the warning that DTX issued was the only time I've ever seen them advertising winds in excess of 100 MPH.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dtx/events/tordtx_4.txt

Back on topic, DTE is reporting over 400,000 customers without power now in SEMI alone. About to surpass 500,000 statewide.

[stormtrackertf]

[Stebo]

Looks like there is around 350k are without power in SEMI, the line was pretty bad just East of where I live as there are many outages in St Clair Shores. Up where I was it was rocking pretty good though, I would say gusts around 60 to 65 with continuous lightning.

[Stebo]

DTW picked up 0.59" for the day putting us at 2.09" for the month of September, certainly continuing the trend from last month.

[Chicago WX]

1.15" total at LAF from last night through this morning. Peak wind gust of 48 mph with the storms.

 

Airport has been on the low side of rainfall locally total-wise, but since August 16...14 out of the last 22 days have had measurable rainfall there (17 of 22 with a trace or more).

[stormtrackertf]

Outages in southern Michigan peaked at 462,000 this morning.

[King James]

Absolutely beautiful out

[Gilbertfly]

Gorgeous cirrus with a deep, crystal clear, blue sky...every door and window open for the next few days

[chances14]

Over 400,000 customers are without power in Michigan right now. That's one of the highest totals I can ever remember.

Not sure where that ranks in history but I can only remember a few times where there were more outages. The derechoes of 1991, 1995 and 1998 come to mind. Come to think of it, the 90's were a crazy decade for Derechoes in this area.

Edit: There's over 300,000 customers with outages just in SEMI alone according to DTE. 129,000 in Wayne/Oakland/Macomb. Apparently it's still rising as more reports come in.

 

this was just posted on dte's facebook page

 

#DTEEnergy Storm Update: As of 11 a.m.,

Due to one of the strongest storms to hit southeast Michigan this year, 375,000 DTE Energy customers lost electric service Friday night and approximately 350,000 customers remain without power.

This is the 10th most impactful storm in the company’s 111-year history. DTE has enlisted the help of 600 linemen from utilities in Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and Tennessee to assist the restoration effort.

[wisconsinwx]

With it being a near lock that we won't see a 90 degree day this year, three of the past seven years will have seen 0 or 1 90 degree highs. Considering we had an impressive three year streak of hot summers in that period as well, the last seven years have been a veritable rollercoaster of summer patterns.

[Boogieman]

Gorgeous cirrus with a deep, crystal clear, blue sky...every door and window open for the next few days

Yes!!! I've had to have the AC on until this morning. This past month I've had to run it not so much because of the heat, but rather due to the high humidity levels. I have rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalsia, both of which go nuts under certain weather conditions. Humidity seems to make the fibro flare up really bad, especially the nocturnal peaks. 

 

I spend several weeks each summer at my father in law's cottage at Sandy Pines... I don't know what his aversion to open windows is, but it's like he'd rather fry and sweat rather than open some windows. This year his AC hasn't been working too well, so we've sparred over that while we were up there staining his decking. At least he keeps a few of those large tower fans around. 

 

My favorite item in the summer is my ancient metal 24" window fan. I'll put it down in the lower level, blowing out, and open the windows upstairs. 

[Boogieman]

I was looking at a post from DTX on facebook... there were some really impressive rainfall amounts from yesterday's storms. Were there any more flooding issues around Detroit metro? I've seen a few reports in the 4 inch plus range.

[hm8]

Gotta say, feeling the crisp cool air today after yesterday's grossness... Def ready for Fall

[Powerball]

So overall, just to recap, the real story with yesterday's storms were the winds.

 

By far, last night's storms produced the worst widespread damaging winds of any severe weather event for 2014 in/around Detroit. It did however lack the torrential downpours, frequent claps of thunder, flash flooding and even hail events that several other events produced.

 

Quite frankly, for what was at first a very anti-climatic start, this season is certainly going out with a bang. I would even say this season alone has ultimately delivered more extreme severe weather events to Detroit than any season in the past several years (including 2010-2012).

[Powerball]

Also, yesterday easily felt like the hottest day of the year, with several hours of heat indices around 100*F. It was also the first morning this entire Summer in which it felt legitimately hot during the morning hours and you knew the day was going to turn into a scorcher. 

 

The official high at KDET was 94*F.

[Tim from Springfield (IL)]

Last night's storms destroyed a 2-3 year old high school gym roof in Virginia, IL (30 miles WNW of Springfield).  Thankfully no injuries (although a junior high girls' basketball team was practicing in the other gym and was sent to a locker room for shelter).  Springfield State Journal-Register story with photos:

http://www.sj-r.com/article/20140905/NEWS/140909639

 

WICS ABC 20 (Springfield) news story from last night with video:

http://www.wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_18964.shtml

 

ILX non-precipitation storm reports from last night, with no mention of the possible wind speed in the Virginia storm:

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NWUS53 KILX 060223
LSRILX

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
922 PM CDT FRI SEP 05 2014

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0442 PM TSTM WND DMG BEARDSTOWN 40.01N 90.43W
09/05/2014 CASS IL PUBLIC

TREES AND POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN

0445 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 NE BEARDSTOWN 40.04N 90.39W
09/05/2014 CASS IL EMERGENCY MNGR

LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.

0455 PM TSTM WND DMG VIRGINIA 39.95N 90.21W
09/05/2014 CASS IL LAW ENFORCEMENT

ROOF DAMAGED AT SCHOOL.

0455 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 NW VIRGINIA 39.98N 90.25W
09/05/2014 CASS IL MESONET

MACHINE SHED DESTROYED

0510 PM TSTM WND GST ASHLAND 39.89N 90.01W
09/05/2014 E70.00 MPH CASS IL BROADCAST MEDIA

0515 PM TSTM WND GST 1 E NEWMANSVILLE 40.00N 90.00W
09/05/2014 E70.00 MPH CASS IL EMERGENCY MNGR

NEAR THE CASS/MENARD COUNTY LINE

0525 PM TSTM WND DMG PETERSBURG 40.01N 89.85W
09/05/2014 MENARD IL EMERGENCY MNGR

LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN SOUTH OF ILL ROUTE 123 AND 97
JUNCTION

0530 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 SW WINCHESTER 39.62N 90.47W
09/05/2014 SCOTT IL LAW ENFORCEMENT

TREE BLOWN ACROSS THE WINCHESTER/GLASGOW BLACKTOP.

0533 PM TSTM WND DMG ATHENS 39.96N 89.72W
09/05/2014 MENARD IL EMERGENCY MNGR

POWER LINES DOWN ON A HOUSE IN TOWN.

0550 PM TSTM WND GST ELKHART 40.02N 89.48W
09/05/2014 E60.00 MPH LOGAN IL EMERGENCY MNGR

ELKART FIRE DEPT ESTIMATED WINDS.

0700 PM TSTM WND DMG SE HOOPESTON 40.47N 87.67W
09/05/2014 VERMILION IL EMERGENCY MNGR

12 TO 15 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCHES WERE BLOWN DOWN ON
THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF HOOPESTON.

[Hoosier]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED  

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL  

112 PM CDT SAT SEP 06 2014  

   

.TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON  

   

.DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.  

 

..REMARKS..  

 

0255 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 ENE ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 42.12N 87.88W  

09/05/2014 COOK IL BROADCAST MEDIA  

 

*** 1 FATAL *** MEDIA REPORTS A LARGE TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN  

AND ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS STRUCK AND KILLED A  

BICYCLIST ON BIKE TRAIL.  

 

[IWXwx]

 

 

[Tim from Springfield (IL)]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL  112 PM CDT SAT SEP 06 2014     .TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON     .DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.                ..REMARKS..    0255 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 ENE ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 42.12N 87.88W   09/05/2014                   COOK               IL   BROADCAST MEDIA                 *** 1 FATAL *** MEDIA REPORTS A LARGE TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN              AND ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS STRUCK AND KILLED A               BICYCLIST ON BIKE TRAIL.    

The victim has been identified: Chicago actress Molly Glynn, who has even made appearances on NBC's "Chicago Fire".  Prayers go to her family and friends during this difficult time:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26465380/police-chicago-actress-dies-after-struck-by-falling-tree-during-storm

[stormtrackertf]

this was just posted on dte's facebook page

That's crazy. Still no power at my house and according to the utility workers they aren't expecting it to be back until sometime tomorrow.

[Spartman]

Topped out at 73F.

[cyclone77]

Hit 52 this morning.  Have 48 in the point for tonight, which would be the coldest of the new fall season.  Already down to 63. 

 

Was nice to mow this afternoon and not sweat my azz off.

[Chicago WX]

73˚ for the high today. Really really nice.

 

P&C has 48˚ for tomorrow morning. My 8:00am tee time is gonna be a bit nippy.

[BuffaloWeather]

We had some really good storms last night that lasted quite awhile. Thunder and Lightning for hours from about 11-2 AM.(1-2 inches of rain) I love going to sleep to t-storms outside in the summer. Nothing beats it!

[Geos]

Perfect day today. High of 73° with very few clouds. Down to 59° now.

 

Pleasant Prairie (Carol Beach), WI.