CT Rain Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 125+? thats some pretty impressive damage, what were velocities at that time frame? At least 100 mph I'd say. Velocities weren't impressive but there was a classic downburst sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I realize micros are called micro for a reason..but it seems quite odd that there's trees down right up to the edge of the road, but on the other side of the road..there's not a tree, limb, or leaf that was touched. Maybe it's different in another view or farther down the road That doesn't look tornadic though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 If it was micro..why are trees right on the other side of the road untouched? Did the thing just roar right down the mountain..afraid to cross the road? might be one of the coolest shots i have seen, i hope the drone has video posted. That's impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 The homeowner sits in the adjacent office to mine in the MIRSL main office. She's going to be pissed at us for not staying up to run the phased array last night. http://www.wggb.com/2014/10/08/high-winds-bring-tree-down-on-hadley-home/ damn, you can see the sheared branch on that tree above her house, that sucks, I know. homeowners is a pain in the butt to deal with. You have to make the emergency repair first then get reimbursed, bureaucracy. Good thing I had carpenter friends and family, appears she does too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I realize micros are called micro for a reason..but it seems quite odd that there's trees down right up to the edge of the road, but on the other side of the road..there's not a tree, limb, or leaf that was touched. Maybe it's different in another view or farther down the road Wind can do weird things. Some trees are naturally resistant to wind, some are hardened because of their exposure to certain wind directions. It's possible the trees on the low side of the road were hardier than those on the uphill. And at some point the wind has to dissipate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Any number of reasons, including tree strength which we have no idea about. pretty obvious the winds curled up and over though, even the leaves across the street are still there, the shearing across the street is most impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Wind can do weird things. Some trees are naturally resistant to wind, some are hardened because of their exposure to certain wind directions. It's possible the trees on the low side of the road were hardier than those on the uphill. And at some point the wind has to dissipate. yep and of course the road stopped the domino effect, see some root balls exposed there too, neat stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Looking at a zoomed in pic it appears the very strong winds at shear height were above the trees across the road as the slope fell, you can see the tips across the street correlate with the shear heights on the other side. So basically the downburst flattened out vertically and the down slope was below the momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 Looking at a zoomed in pic it appears the very strong winds at shear height were above the trees across the road as the slope fell, you can see the tips across the street correlate with the shear heights on the other side. So basically the downburst flattened out vertically and the down slope was below the momentum. What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 This is about as uneasy of a situation I can think of with regards to convection in southern New England. Climo and timing of day just are not favorable at all. I mean we have had severe weather and tornadoes occur at night before and in October before but never really at night during the month of October. With this said, the ingredients are there and everything is in place for the possibility of severe weather including tornadoes, it's just a matter of whether or not everything is realized. Too see mesomodels spitting out discrete is something I think that "elevates" the awareness of this situation. Haven't we had thundersnow at night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MainePhotog Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Looks like the rainfall is over. Total rainfall is at 1.74". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What? that was the worst poem I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What? Something like this,lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 It's paralleling the road more than going over it at a perpendicular angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I give this entire thread a D-. I'll announce ways you can earn extra credit after tomorrow's midterm. And, before you ask, none of them will be donating to the canned food drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 that was the worst poem I've ever read. you are about as jelly as it get with Easthampton getting your microburst, and the guy on the other side of the lake getting 70+mph, its ok dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 you are about as jelly as it get with Easthampton getting your microburst, and the guy on the other side of the lake getting 70+mph, its ok dude. lol, He is very envious, You can tell by his post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 lol, He is very envious, You can tell by his post Wind gusts is serious bizness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'm super jelly of the microburst. I'm not envious of the guy on the other side of the lake with a peak gust that was a whole 18mph higher than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'm super jelly of the microburst. I'm not envious of the guy on the other side of the lake with a peak gust that was a whole 18mph higher than mine. lol, You should go help him with his davis calibration if you were a decent neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Wind gusts is serious bizness. Yup when your gust is bigger then the next one near by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 The aerial pictures coming in from Easthampton are remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 No tornado nws comfirms it was a microburst just saw on masslive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Wind can do weird things. Some trees are naturally resistant to wind, some are hardened because of their exposure to certain wind directions. It's possible the trees on the low side of the road were hardier than those on the uphill. And at some point the wind has to dissipate. Hard to discern the details from that picture, but I find a coiple things to be a bit odd. First, the trees dumped into the road appear to have most of their leaves, while those on the damaged hillside have almost none. Second, there appears to be mighty few horizonal stems on that hillside, and none with foliage like that seen on the pavement, considering the small amount of trees still standing. Had that area been recently cut over? (with a roadside buffer, now mainly destroyed?) There are some brown patches on the hillside which would be consistent with dried up hardwood slash from an early summer harvest. Wind going from a somewhat open stand of trees to an area densely forested can produce strange looking results. Edit: Ginxy's enlargement clarifies things a bit. Those "brown patches" appear to be rootwads, and more horizontal stems can be seen, though perhaps still too few, IMO, for that area to have been densely forested pre-storm. Some of the downed hillside trees look like conifers (hemlock) while most on the pavement look like broadleaved trees. As others have noted, very impressive damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'm still reviewing our radar from earlier today. It was strange how our strongest winds weren't associated with any of the heavier echoes. It does appear though that we had a pretty good dry punch that surged through behind some showers. This traces a good line through all the damage/power outage areas from EEN to IZG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'm still reviewing our radar from earlier today. It was strange how our strongest winds weren't associated with any of the heavier echoes. It does appear though that we had a pretty good dry punch that surged through behind some showers. This traces a good line through all the damage/power outage areas from EEN to IZG. I actually wondered about that. With that trough swinging in negative and the mid level jet max punching in, could some sort of weird downward motion occur from all the DVM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I actually wondered about that. With that trough swinging in negative and the mid level jet max punching in, could some sort of weird downward motion occur from all the DVM? This path lines up so much better with the damage than the actual 50 dBZ echoes do. I don't think the environment was such that we were having huge, surging outflows south of the storms either. Any gusts were likely tight to the core of the updrafts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 There was also a dry punch into that line of storms south of the MCV like feature over the CT valley. That had to get involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 wow, Tamarack, what do you think? pics from Ryans Twitter feed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 Plus, cell weakened a bit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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