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Summer 2015 General Thunderstorm Thread


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Great write-up by BOX. They explained the few scenarios with tremendous detail. All you can really do at this stage is just really nowcast. Models really aren't going to be a big help at this point.

We know it's going to be pretty damn unstable, we know lapse rates will be steep, we know shear will increase. It's all about whether activity that develops into an MCS and if so where does it track.

Haven't had a good MCS blow through here in a while.

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1) SEVERAL PIECES OF GUIDANCE...ESPECIALLY THE GLOBAL MODELS KEEP

THE MAIN ACTION TO OUR NORTH ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND IN THE

VICINITY OF THE MAIN SHORTWAVE. IF THIS OCCURS...ISOLATED STRONG TO

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MAINLY OCCUR NORTH OF THE MA TURNPIKE FROM

LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE WOULD

OCCUR BUT MUCH OF THE REGION MAY END UP DRY ESPECIALLY OUR SOUTHERN

ZONES.

(2) MEANWHILE...SOME OF OUR MESOSCALE GUIDANCE SHOWS THIS ISOLATED

ACTIVITY MERGING INTO AN MCS AND DIVING INTO PORTIONS OF OUR REGION.

THIS IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE GIVEN STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES KEEPING

HIGH INSTABILITY IN PLACE WELL AFTER SUNSET. IN THESE TYPE OF

ENVIRONMENTS...COMPLEXES OF THUNDERSTORMS CAN OFTEN PUSH FURTHER

SOUTH THAN THE MODELS DEPICT TO AS A RESULT OF COOL OUTFLOW PUSHING

SOUTH INTO A VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. IF THIS DOES COME TO

FRUITION...POCKETS OF SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE WOULD BE POSSIBLE

GIVEN EML IN PLACE ALONG WITH IMPROVING 0 TO 6 KM SHEAR. MODELS

SHOW THE BEST SHOT AT THIS NORTH OF THE MA TURNPIKE...BUT IF AN MCS

DOES GET GOING IT COULD END UP SWEEPING ACROSS THE REST OF THE

REGION AS WELL. IN ADDITION...TO THE THREAT FOR POCKETS OF

SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN

LOCALIZED FLOODING ALONG WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

ALL IN ALL...WE SHOULD AT LEAST BE DEALING WITH ISOLATED STRONG TO

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHETHER OR NOT WE END UP WITH A SIGNIFICANT

SEVERE WEATHER EVENT REMAINS TO BE SEEN...BUT WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY

MONITOR THAT POTENTIAL LATER TODAY. PRIME TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER

LOOKS TO OCCUR FROM 4 PM TO MIDNIGHT...BUT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE

STORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THEREAFTER AS A RESULT OF STEEP MID

LEVEL LAPSE RATES KEEPING INSTABILITY IN PLACE.

Anyone can read that. That leaves any option on table. It's like an =chances seasonal forecast. Someone needs to grab balls and say what they think will happen IMO

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I'm not degreed..so even though I play one on TV sometimes..I don't have a say in this.

I was hoping Ryan who is so good at forecasting severe would chime in.

In Vermont so I haven't looked at much. Heading home in a bit.

Not sure there's anything else to add besides what Hayden wrote in that great afd.

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A lot of the morning stuff has everything from n Central Ma on north. Seems like Orh or so south possibly get shut out. Only thing is in NW flow like this , these things can come farther S than modeled .

 

The best forcing is off to our north really so that's where the isolated to scattered activity will be developing.  If this activity does, however, form into an MCS, there is a higher potential for this complex to actually dive southward into southern New England.  MCS's typically like to ride along the strongest instability axis and nose of strongest MLJ...both of which would actually be more favorable in our region.  

 

We will be capped for much of the day down this way with the advection of the EML plume so that's why we won't see stuff develop.  Also, if an MCS does organize we would have to watch the outflow and attendant cold pool associated with it perhaps sparking activity ahead of it.  

 

Case in point is it's impossible to really say what happens b/c it's highly dependent on whether an MCS organizes or not.  

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Also, for our area down here, much of the action would likely be occurring after 0z so and outlook really covers everything prior to 01z so with later outlooks, especially 20z we could see adjustments to the risk area depending on how things are evolving.  Even the 01z outlook tonight could have reflections given our shot would probably be after 10-11 PMish

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The wind profiles and component of the shear with regards to the front do seem indicative of an MCS evolution later on this afternoon.  Looking at the MCS maintenance parameter on SPC meso that seems to confirm this idea.  This still just becomes a piece of the puzzle though b/c the next question is where would it track?  

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