HillsdaleMIWeather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Storm over me rapidly picked up, 45 mph gust max, with rain driven EXTREMELY heavy rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Almost got Powerballed today, but did touch 90° at FWA for a short period. Hoping for some overnight boomers, but it looks like they'll slide northeast of MBY. A lightning bolt hit a tree about 50 ft. from me about 25 years ago. I was holding an umbrella and felt the tingling from my hand up to my shoulder. Scared the crap out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Storm over me rapidly picked up, 45 mph gust max, with rain driven EXTREMELY heavy rain. Same thing will be happening here shortly (minus the wind). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Stupid hot this evening.. a concert at the park and it was 85F still at 8pm... dew easily in the low 70Fs... no breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitown Storm Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Anyone ever been struck by lightning before ?? Or had a close call?? Today with the first front of storms I experienced a very close strike. So close that I heard and felt the streamer just before the strike. It sounded just like a Tesla coil over my head. My neighbors house was struck a while back. I had fire coming thru some of my electrical outlets. Fried most of them. Smell of burnt plastic lingered for days. I'll never forget the sound though. Woke me from a dead sleep and was the loudest thing imaginable. Glad you're ok man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Same thing will be happening here shortly (minus the wind). Just picked up 2.50 inches of rain, most roads are flooded to some degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Just picked up 2.50 inches of rain, most roads are flooded to some degree. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Anyone ever been struck by lightning before ?? Or had a close call?? Today with the first front of storms I experienced a very close strike. So close that I heard and felt the streamer just before the strike. It sounded just like a Tesla coil over my head. I had a very close call about 10 years ago. Was in Waukegan and a friend and I had just got down bowling. It was already pouring down rain when we went out side with some lightning in the distance. While we were running out to my truck a lightning bolt hit the parking lamp post right above us. Extremely loud when it hit the metal - we could hardly hear for several minutes. Ringing in our ears lasted a good half hour! Smelled the ozone produced by the strike as well. --- Lol, at Alek's typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 IWX kinda need's to step up there issuing of Flood Products, listening to the Scanner there is flood related crashes going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 No disagreement there. And we had full hazy sunshine through midday to tote (another thing that's been rare on days with t'storm potential). Plus, our high of 89 occured in the noon hour which is pretty dang impressive for early September. I bet we would've made a run for hottest day of the year if not for the storm action. Still pouring rain here but it looks like Downtown Detroit-Mt. Clemens is getting the brunt of some training action right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Our weather tower netted some pretty cool obs as a decent, slow moving non-severe storm passed through here around 4PM. There were several lightning strikes within a mile of my location on campus, and it was cool to watch for almost an hour on my building's roof as the cluster of pulse storms slowly moved in from the north...we watched three cores go up and then down until we finally got hit. A decent core sat 2-3 miles NE of my location with VIL ranging from 50-70 kg/m^2 and tops from 40-50k feet for almost 20 minutes, so there was likely some small hail and even stronger winds just NE of campus...and there was definitely a lot of lightning in that direction. All in all not too shabby for being under a death ridge in early September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Anyone ever been struck by lightning before ?? Or had a close call?? Today with the first front of storms I experienced a very close strike. So close that I heard and felt the streamer just before the strike. It sounded just like a Tesla coil over my head. I never have been personally struck, but my old house had a tree in our yard get struck twice in the 20 years I lived there, and one of the houses on my block was struck by lightning in probably about 2002 and there was a major fire because of it. Thankfully no one was injured. As far as close calls go, I got caught outside in an open area in a nasty thunderstorm at the 2005 International Freedom Festival in Downtown Detroit. At one point, my hair was starting to stand straight up. You know what that usually is the precursor to, which scared the crap out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Plus, our high of 89 occured in the noon hour which is pretty dang impressive for early September. I bet we would've made a run for hottest day of the year if not for the storm action. Still pouring rain here but it looks like Downtown Detroit-Mt. Clemens is getting the brunt of some training action right now. Getting a fair amount of CTC lightning and thunder, but just south of the heavier rain now (it was a deluge 15 minutes ago). It's moving back in though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Happy for the Michigan peeps getting some fun to watch storms. I felt like Chicago ruled the roost for awhile in the storm department. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I have been carrying lightning for 6 hours now straight KDTW 040156Z 05005KT 10SM FEW007 SCT025 OVC055 20/19 A2995 RMK AO2 OCNL LTGIC DSNT NE AND SE-S CB DSNT NE AND SE-S MOV EKDTW 040153Z 04006KT 10SM SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2995 RMK AO2 RAE53 SLP138 OCNL LTGICCG DSNT NE AND SE-SW CB DSNT NE AND SE-SW MOV E P0004 T02000183KDTW 040053Z 11007KT 10SM -RA SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2992 RMK AO2 TSE21 SLP128 FRQ LTGICCG DSNT SE-SW CB DSNT SE-SW TS MOV E P0003 T02000178KDTW 040021Z 03004KT 10SM -RA SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2990 RMK AO2 TSE21 CONS LTGICCG DSNT E-S CB DSNT E-S TS MOV E P0001KDTW 032353Z 09006KT 8SM -TSRA SCT025 BKN055CB OVC110 20/18 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP127 FRQ LTGICCG E-S TS E-S MOV E P0027 6//// T02000183 10317 20200 51004KDTW 032349Z 09006KT 8SM -TSRA BKN025 BKN035 OVC055CB 20/18 A2991 RMK AO2 FRQ LTGICCG E-S TS E-S MOV E P0027KDTW 032324Z 19004KT 2SM R03R/4500VP6000FT +TSRA BR BKN025 BKN035 OVC055CB 20/18 A2994 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 2 1/2 PRESFR FRQ LTGICCG OHD AND ALQDS TS OHD AND ALQDS MOV E P0017KDTW 032312Z VRB04KT 1 1/2SM R03R/4000VP6000FT +TSRA SCT020 BKN035 OVC055CB 21/18 A2997 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 4 OCNL LTGICCG OHD AND ALQDS TS OHD AND ALQDS MOV E P0010KDTW 032253Z 28011G14KT 3SM TSRA SCT020 BKN060CB OVC110 23/20 A2996 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 4 TSB2159RAB28 PRESRR SLP142 OCNL LTGICCG W-N TS W-N MOV E P0002 T02280200KDTW 032159Z 08005KT 7SM TS SCT030 BKN060CB OVC110 24/21 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB59 OCNL LTGICCG W-NW TS W-NW MOV SEKDTW 032153Z 07005KT 7SM SCT030 BKN065 OVC110 24/20 A2991 RMK AO2 TSE32RAB00E37 SLP123 OCNL LTGIC DSNT SE AND W-NW CB DSNT SE AND W-NW TS MOV SE P0001 T02390200KDTW 032132Z 08005KT 7SM -RA SCT030 BKN065 OVC110 24/20 A2990 RMK AO2 TSE32RAB00 OCNL LTGIC DSNT SE-S CB DSNT SE-S TS MOV SE P0001KDTW 032053Z 02006KT 10SM TS SCT050CB OVC150 24/19 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB50RAB43E53 SLP124 OCNL LTGICCG SW-W TS SW-W MOV E P0000 6//// T02390194 58006KDTW 032050Z 02007KT 9SM -TSRA SCT050CB OVC150 24/19 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB50RAB43 OCNL LTGICCG SW-W TS SW-W MOV E P0000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I have been carrying lightning for 6 hours now straight KDTW 040156Z 05005KT 10SM FEW007 SCT025 OVC055 20/19 A2995 RMK AO2 OCNL LTGIC DSNT NE AND SE-S CB DSNT NE AND SE-S MOV E KDTW 040153Z 04006KT 10SM SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2995 RMK AO2 RAE53 SLP138 OCNL LTGICCG DSNT NE AND SE-SW CB DSNT NE AND SE-SW MOV E P0004 T02000183 KDTW 040053Z 11007KT 10SM -RA SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2992 RMK AO2 TSE21 SLP128 FRQ LTGICCG DSNT SE-SW CB DSNT SE-SW TS MOV E P0003 T02000178 KDTW 040021Z 03004KT 10SM -RA SCT025 BKN055 OVC110 20/18 A2990 RMK AO2 TSE21 CONS LTGICCG DSNT E-S CB DSNT E-S TS MOV E P0001 KDTW 032353Z 09006KT 8SM -TSRA SCT025 BKN055CB OVC110 20/18 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP127 FRQ LTGICCG E-S TS E-S MOV E P0027 6//// T02000183 10317 20200 51004 KDTW 032349Z 09006KT 8SM -TSRA BKN025 BKN035 OVC055CB 20/18 A2991 RMK AO2 FRQ LTGICCG E-S TS E-S MOV E P0027 KDTW 032324Z 19004KT 2SM R03R/4500VP6000FT +TSRA BR BKN025 BKN035 OVC055CB 20/18 A2994 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 2 1/2 PRESFR FRQ LTGICCG OHD AND ALQDS TS OHD AND ALQDS MOV E P0017 KDTW 032312Z VRB04KT 1 1/2SM R03R/4000VP6000FT +TSRA SCT020 BKN035 OVC055CB 21/18 A2997 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 4 OCNL LTGICCG OHD AND ALQDS TS OHD AND ALQDS MOV E P0010 KDTW 032253Z 28011G14KT 3SM TSRA SCT020 BKN060CB OVC110 23/20 A2996 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 4 TSB2159RAB28 PRESRR SLP142 OCNL LTGICCG W-N TS W-N MOV E P0002 T02280200 KDTW 032159Z 08005KT 7SM TS SCT030 BKN060CB OVC110 24/21 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB59 OCNL LTGICCG W-NW TS W-NW MOV SE KDTW 032153Z 07005KT 7SM SCT030 BKN065 OVC110 24/20 A2991 RMK AO2 TSE32RAB00E37 SLP123 OCNL LTGIC DSNT SE AND W-NW CB DSNT SE AND W-NW TS MOV SE P0001 T02390200 KDTW 032132Z 08005KT 7SM -RA SCT030 BKN065 OVC110 24/20 A2990 RMK AO2 TSE32RAB00 OCNL LTGIC DSNT SE-S CB DSNT SE-S TS MOV SE P0001 KDTW 032053Z 02006KT 10SM TS SCT050CB OVC150 24/19 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB50RAB43E53 SLP124 OCNL LTGICCG SW-W TS SW-W MOV E P0000 6//// T02390194 58006 KDTW 032050Z 02007KT 9SM -TSRA SCT050CB OVC150 24/19 A2991 RMK AO2 TSB50RAB43 OCNL LTGICCG SW-W TS SW-W MOV E P0000 Such a great summer night. Awesome observations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Models are advertising some decent directional shear here for Friday, as the upper level shortwave sort of closes off and drifts westward. There's very little wind shear to work with and it's probably not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but as we know, a whole lot of wind shear certainly isn't needed to get rotating updrafts or even tornadic activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Topped out at 90, the first one since July 29th and the 9th one for this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Another pop up storm rolling over me now. Very needed soaking today in my neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Another pop up storm rolling over me now. Very needed soaking today in my neighborhood. Most areas needed the rain. It was getting dry around here. Might have a shot at some more tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 A little funny snippet from APX. I think this is the same forecaster that's been bitching about the crappy string of winters they've had up there. He should probably request a transfer at this point. http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=APX&issuedby=APX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=3&glossary=1 000FXUS63 KAPX 032347AFDAPXAREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI747 PM EDT THU SEP 3 2015.NEAR TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TONIGHT)ISSUED AT 343 PM EDT THU SEP 3 2015HIGH IMPACT WEATHER POTENTIAL: NOT MUCH.PATTERN SYNOPSIS/ANTICIPATED EVOLUTION: JUST WOW! HAD TO TAKE THEPERFECT SET-UP TO DESTROY WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WARM SUMMERDAY...AND IT INDEED HAPPENED! CULPRIT BEHIND THIS MESS IS CUT OFFAND CONVECTIVELY AGITATED MID LEVEL CIRCULATION(S) ROTATINGOVERHEAD...ITSELF TUCKED UNDER BROAD AND RATHER SUBSTANTIALSUBTROPICAL RIDGING EXTENDING FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INTOCENTRAL CANADA. WIDESPREAD RAIN/THUNDER/CLOUDS HAVE KEPTTEMPERATURES MUCH COOLER THAN INITIALLY ADVERTISED. LEAD MCVDRIVEN SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE WEAKENING ACROSS NORTHEAST LOWERMICHIGAN...WITH LIGHTER MORE STRATIFORM RAIN/DRIZZLE BREAKING OUTACROSS NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN WITHIN DEFORMATION AXES OF H8-H7CIRCULATIONS. ABOVE SYSTEM ESSENTIALLY GOING MUCH OF NOWHERETONIGHT AS LARGER SCALE FLOW REGIME REMAINS LIGHT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Another nice pop headed my way, as for Tomorrow, it could see another marginal if things JUST get set up the right way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Detroit metro area got 1/2" to 2" of rainfall as per the DTX rainfall estimation today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Yet another thunderstorm downpour that looks to be the last of the night just rolled through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Detroit-north metro: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 One more lightning story. I was fishing a bass tournament and my partner and I were on some good fish, but a storm was quickly rolling in. I was looking at my partner as I made a cast as we were discussing taking shelter and I didn't hear my bait splash. I looked around and my line was suspended in midair in an arch and the bait was slowly drifting to the surface. I've never started my boat and took off so fast in my life. We beached under a nearby bridge just as the storm hit with numerous very close CG's. FWA got 89'd Wednesday, touched 90 yesterday and the point calls for 90 again, while IND is shooting for their third 90 in a row today. Gonna be a DLL special today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Detroit metro area got 1/2" to 2" of rainfall as per the DTX rainfall estimation today Does that include the early/mid afternoon severe t'storms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Picked up 0.99" of rain last night imby. This does include whatever fell during the afternoon. Went to lions game and got soaked. Well over an inch downtown, 1.18" at DET, only 0.42" at DTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 One thing's for sure, we've had some of the best sunrises this week. Yet another morning today with just a beautiful sunrise, but instead of it being smoke/haze filled, it's blending in with puffy cumulus clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 52 for a low here. fell asleep with the sliding door open in my bedroom and woke up freezing, but too cold to get up and do anything about it 77 for a high today but 88 on Sunday before a pretty sharp cool down next week with highs in the low 60's. leaf color really progressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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