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July 11-14 Severe Weather Event


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EMA in Delaware and Randolph Counties in East Central Indiana reporting numerous trees uprooted and power poles downed likely due to the combo of gusty winds (50 to 60 mph) and the extremely wet ground. Randolph County EMA reporting fire departments on several dozen calls of uprooted and downed trees.

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The 1300 UTC outlook decision was terrible.  Clearing and recovery are well underway, and with mixing from a bore at the western end of the OFB and a closed circulation in SE MN, recovery should be rapid and dramatic.  All this morning round did was ensure the metro, especially the S and W metro, has a tremendous reservoir of surface vorticity to tap.

 

 

Is it me, or is how this is unfolding have a bit of a Coal City vibe to it?

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Might see SPC hold off any of the major changes many of us think we should see until 20Z after it becomes more definite that the OFB will become completely diffuse and irrelevant...

Im pretty sure they will change it... they are a good bit off at this point. Im watching the Weather Channel (its a first) because at 11:20 SPC's Greg Carin is being interviewed about the MDT risk

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While I've maintained south and west was the way to go, I think that where the moderate risk is at now seems to extreme in that direction.  I would expect in the next update for that axis to shift east.

 

I wouldn't shift the axis northeast at all.  I think the 1300z outlook corridor of higher probs is pretty good, but they should have kept enhanced area further northeast including Chicago.  

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EMA in Delaware and Randolph Counties in East Central Indiana reporting numerous trees uprooted and power poles downed likely due to the combo of gusty winds (50 to 60 mph) and the extremely wet ground. Randolph County EMA reporting fire departments on several dozen calls of uprooted and downed trees.

 

Marion County getting hit too. A few LSRs so far:

 

1145 AM TSTM WND DMG WINCHESTER 40.17N 84.98W

07/13/2015 RANDOLPH IN EMERGENCY MNGR

TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

 

1144 AM TSTM WND DMG 8 NW INDIANAPOLIS 39.86N 86.25W

07/13/2015 MARION IN PUBLIC

A FEW TREES DOWN AT 86TH STREET AND ZIONSVILLE ROAD.

1156 AM TSTM WND DMG 8 W INDIANAPOLIS 39.78N 86.30W

07/13/2015 MARION IN TRAINED SPOTTER

SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWNED AT 10TH STREET NEAR

INTERSTATE 465.

 

1152 AM TSTM WND DMG PARKER CITY 40.19N 85.20W

07/13/2015 RANDOLPH IN EMERGENCY MNGR

MULTIPLE TREES SNAPPED OR UPROOTED

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I wouldn't shift the axis northeast at all.  I think the 1300z outlook corridor of higher probs is pretty good, but they should have kept enhanced area further northeast including Chicago.  

Disagree.  Highest threat is going to be on the boundary/CAPE gradient, which will likely be NE of current max probs.

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He just said "he is amazed" about the dew points and temps rebounding. He also said "mostly IL" referring to the most severe storms. Not much help hahaha.

He shouldn't be.  No one should be.  When you have a closed circ just NW of the region, a bore to mix and destabilize, and no stratiform precip to reinforce the cold pool, rapid T/Td recovery should NOT BE A SURPRISE.

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..SUMMARY  
 
MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF DAMAGING  
WINDS...TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS  
MUCH OF THE MIDWEST...BUT ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF  
ILLINOIS...INDIANA...AND KENTUCKY.  
   
..IND/OH/KY/TN
 
 
A LARGE BOWING MCS IS TRACKING SOUTH-SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL  
IND. THIS SYSTEM WILL PROGRESS INTO CENTRAL KY AND EVENTUALLY INTO  
MIDDLE/EASTERN TN. A VERY MOIST/UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS PRESENT AHEAD  
OF THE STORMS...ALONG WITH INCREASING WINDS ALOFT. PRESENT  
CONDITIONS SUGGEST STORMS MAY INTENSIFY INTO A LONG-LIVED AND  
DAMAGING BOW ECHO WITH THE RISK OF WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS  
/DERECHO/. HAVE ADJUSTED THE MDT RISK TO INCLUDE MUCH OF CENTRAL KY  
AHEAD OF THIS ACTIVITY.  
   
..WI/IA/IL AND WESTERN IND/KY
 
 
THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED MCS CURRENTLY EXTENDS  
ACROSS CENTRAL IL INTO EASTERN IA. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS  
STRONG HEATING IS COMMENCING OVER NORTHERN IL AND SOUTHERN WI ON THE  
COOL SIDE OF THE BOUNDARY. SURFACE WINDS HAVE ALREADY SHOWN SOME  
SIGN OF VEERING BACK TO SOUTHWESTERLY IN THIS REGION...SUGGESTING  
THAT A MOIST AND EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL RE-DEVELOP. MOST  
12Z MODELS DID NOT INITIALIZE THE LOCATION OF THE OUTFLOW  
BOUNDARY...LENDING UNCERTAINTY TO PLACEMENT OF CONVECTIVE INITIATION  
LATER TODAY. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT RAPID CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT  
WILL OCCUR BY MID/LATE AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHERN WI/NORTHERN IL. RARE  
COMBINATIONS OF EXTREME INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE VERTICAL SHEAR  
SUGGEST A RISK OF INTENSE SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND  
A FEW TORNADOES. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY CONGEAL INTO ANOTHER  
FAST-MOVING BOW ECHO THIS EVENING AND TRACK ACROSS PARTS OF IL/IND.  
 
..HART/MOSIER.. 07/13/2015  

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Gonna be fascinating to see how this all plays out.  About as explosive as the atmosphere can get with all the parameters involved.  How often do we see an upper jet of this magnitude over such extreme instability?  Has to be extremely rare.  

 

60-70 kts of effective shear overlapping is pretty absurd with 5000+ J/kg CAPE to work with.

 

...and SPC 1630z outlook looks even less impressive text wise than earlier...

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