Severe storms 2015 general chatter

[eurojosh]

Looking on radar like a chance of a late night wake up call for some folks in the beltway....

[snowfan]

Calvert/Charles county storm.now warned. Good bit of lightning with it.

[Stormpc]

LOUD storm. Nasty midnight event starts July off on a good note. Hail again. Pea sized from what i can tell.

[MN Transplant]

Boom. Nice strobe event going on.

[Ian]

No watch for this stuff heh.

Poor Girl Scouts at White House

[mattie g]

No watch for this stuff heh.

Poor Girl Scouts at White House

People are asleep, so there's no one to warn. I guess.

Light show about as impressive as they come around here. Dog unhappiness meter just about pegged.

[87storms]

Healthy little nighttime storm

[3dcg]

It's a rain whiteout . Bright, loud and windy to boot.

[Skywalker03]

Fringed in Rockville. South of us is getting a good show.

[Ellinwood]

Wind gusts since midnight (up until 1:20 am):
 

[AmericanWxFreak]

Wow looks like I was right about the night time fun! What a storm

[StudentOfClimatology]

Wow, 74mph? That's almost derecho-caliber.

Not much here, moderate rain, some thunder, and a 20-30mph southerly breeze.

[Ian]

Wow, 74mph? That's almost derecho-caliber.

Not much here, moderate rain, some thunder, and a 20-30mph southerly breeze.

And plenty of other events.

Looks like a high population but not huge area wind burst. Not terribly exciting here in upper NW other than timing.

[Kay]

Lots of lightning up here, close strikes, I am getting rocked.

[snowfan]

50k ft tops on that storm now.

[StudentOfClimatology]

Location location location. The lightning was great but it was more bright than vivid if that makes sense. Peak wind really lasted about 5 minutes? Tree branches were bending more than I've seen since moving to this particular spot by a substantial margin. Still not severe wind though. Impressive nonetheless at this hour.

Have you seen any severe-level wind/hail since you've moved here? Seems like you've missed a out on a lot of the blender action recently.

Heh, if the derecho cycle continues (2004, 2008, 2012), we'll be due next summer.

[StudentOfClimatology]

I want one of these. Kind of reminds me of the 7/25/10 microburst.

[arlwx]

Storm woke me up.  LOTS of close lightning strikes, then pouring rain.

 

Probably within a mile of where Ellinwood's posting showed the 55 mph gust.

 

Within a mile of me, LWX reported three trees down (Meade St, S. Washington Blvd, Columbia Pike)- and those are the reported ones.

 

I kept power (probably thanks to having the trouble tree taken out last year), but the radio indicates many others were not so lucky.

 

LWX recorded.97 of rain between 1-3 am.

 

LWX's forecast indicates the chance of rinse and repeat through the 4th.

 

May the rest of you have YOUR homes shaking next time.

[H2O]

Got 1.86" from last night. Had 2 kids crawl into bed from all the T&L

[mappy]

Only .3" from overnight stuff

[MN Transplant]

0.44" and 30mph winds. Guess we missed the good stuff.

[GramaxRefugee]

Awakened and heard things rustling out there...just before 1am.

This morning found a mature healthy maple tree snapped off about 25 ft up. As if it was a poplar. Oh, and some of the usual pieces of poplar elsewhere. Not good.

A little over an inch of rain in the gauge.

[weatherCCB]

0.14" here from last night

Heavy stuff was all south of here.

[J.Mike]

Woke me up. Had to sleep on the sofa in the living room since I've got skylights in the bedroom.

Lot's of trees down in DC proper.

[high risk]

lightning was good here in southern Howard County, but there was specular lightning to my south - it was clear that there was a major-league cell *somewhere* south of me.   I know now that it was along the Route 50 corridor.

[nw baltimore wx]

lightning was good here in southern Howard County, but there was specular lightning to my south - it was clear that there was a major-league cell *somewhere* south of me.   I know now that it was along the Route 50 corridor.

 

Maybe this one...

 

http://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2015/07/storm-takes-canopy-md-gas-station/

[Eskimo Joe]

Pretty ho-hum last night N&W of DC.  Looks like some sporadic wind damage inside the beltway, but a nice light show.  Nocturnal lightning is the best.

[famartin]

It was unlike anything I ever experienced working in Elko, for sure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/01/d-c-endures-worst-storm-since-derecho-2012-heres-how-it-happened/

[Ian]

It was legit in a fairly small area. Happened to line up with high population. If same happened but focused on Frederick would be much less of a story as we see similar or higher gusts at least 1 or 2 times a year somewhere locally. Being woken up at 1 also adds to it.. Plus the wet soil etc. I will say there was more damage than I expected looking at radar velocities.

[high risk]

It's a neat event, because the environment in place was probably pretty good, but 1AM severe storms are so strongly against climatology here that there really wasn't much thought about a threat.   Based on RAP/NAM analysis forecasts, we probably had 1500-2000 sfc-based cape and 45 kt or so of 0-6 km shear, along with fairly strong forcing - certainly enough to justify an isolated severe threat.    If this had been during the late afternoon, we probably would have been boxed, but again, no one was really thinking severe at 1AM.     Heck, SPC which issued  500 watch boxes earlier Tuesday afternoon didn't even deem this overnight event worthy of a mesoscale discussion.