hlcater Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 If you watch the video over, you can see the swirl in the middle of the street. I see it now, and see how this could be a tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Here is a recent instance where a weakening line of showers caused a microburst in Marengo, IA. (accidentally deleted my own post lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Ended up with about a bit over a half inch (~15mm) of ice accretion here. Seen some huge power flashes and a couple trees split or big branches down. Witnessed one big branch fall while taking an ice walk. Areas to my north and north west were reporting up to an inch of ice. Full blown ice storm. Going to be bad there in the morning, been hearing of some smaller towns completely without power and with a majority of trees damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Not my pics but this is from about 30 minutes north of me. Over 1.3" (35mm) ice accretion in Fergus, ON. Incredible to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Not my pics but this is from about 30 minutes north of me. Over 1.3" (35mm) ice accretion in Fergus, ON. Incredible to say the least. Yep. That's devastating. And beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Can't believe what a model fail this was, from the QPF to the temps. Loss power for about 90 minutes earlier yesterday evening. Trees are beautifully caked in ice but not much limb damage. Probably under 1/2" of accrual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Storm total rainfall here 1.57", trace of snow overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Can't believe what a model fail this was, from the QPF to the temps. Loss power for about 90 minutes earlier yesterday evening. Trees are beautifully caked in ice but not much limb damage. Probably under 1/2" of accrual. A fair bit of ice in my neighbourhood as well. In the end, it would seem that we got something in between what the GFS and European were predicting. The euro was too extreme while the GFS was wrong about this being mainly a plain rain event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Ended up with about 11" IMBY a couple areas towards Alpena/Roger City were closer to 17 or 18" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof96 Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 A fair bit of ice in my neighbourhood as well. In the end, it would seem that we got something in between what the GFS and European were predicting. The euro was too extreme while the GFS was wrong about this being mainly a plain rain event. ~0.4" of accretion around here. Sfc temps were stubborn and the HRRR was pretty spot on(esp relative to other models). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 ~0.4" of accretion around here. Sfc temps were stubborn and the HRRR was pretty spot on(esp relative to other models). Have to give the models credit for nailing the heavy icing out in Wellington, Dufferin counties and the Barrie/Aliston area. The NAM was right in showing an inch+ of precipitation falling as freezing rain in those areas. Accretion in those areas were probably in line with what the December 2013 produced for Toronto. Still over 100,000 customers without power at this time. The HRRR runs the morning of the 24th were correct as well in predicting the cold air that remained entrenched over those areas producing significant freezing rain yesterday evening/night. Pretty amazing setup, and the bow echo that rolled through around 8pm was incredible. I can't ever remember seeing precipitation that heavy during a freezing rain event. It was torrential. All in all, a great event to track. It was funny that some were calling bust yesterday morning and things had barely got going yet! This was the surface analysis just after precipitation finished last night. Pretty much anywhere to the east got slammed (minus Toronto proper). The warm sector essentially continued to shrink as the cold front approached and the warm front stalled out. For almost the entire day that freeze line never moved even as the heaviest precipitation rolled through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toronto4 Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Downtown Toronto was also affected by last night's freezing rain event, though to a lesser extent compared to areas north/northwest of Toronto. Temps yesterday evening hovered around -0.4 to -0.6C downtown and there was a bunch of sparks on the TTC streetcar wires from the ice buildup. The 512 St. Clair streetcar line shut down late yesterday evening from the ice. In general, it's a good thing precip amounts were light (3-4 mm) or else this would have been a much worse event for the city core. As for why temps struggled to get above freezing last night, I'm guessing models (except for the HRRR) underestimated the low level cold air feed from the NE from the Quebec high. Similar thing happened in Dec. 2013 as it stayed below freezing much longer than originally forecast (on the 22nd). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 close to 1.5" of snow in about 3 hrs. Had no problems accumulating on the roads in northern racine which surprised me but it was a late afternoon snow fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 106 PM EDT FRI MAR 25 2016 /1206 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016/ ..DAMAGE INFORMATION FROM THE MARCH 24TH STORMS BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF RADAR...PHOTOGRAPHS/VIDEO AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS...A WEAK TORNADO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN JUST WEST OF EDWARDSBURG MICHIGAN. WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH CASS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO CONFIRM THE DETAILS...AND AN UPDATED PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT WILL BE SENT ONCE WE HAVE FINALIZED THE PATH AND INTENSITY. SURVEY CREWS ARE BEING DISPATCHED TO LAPORTE COUNTY TO INVESTIGATE AN AREA OF WIND DAMAGE EAST OF HANNA. WE ANTICIPATE UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT THE DAMAGE SOMETIME THIS EVENING...AND WILL ISSUE A PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT WITH OUR FINDINGS. EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT THE DAMAGE REPORTED IN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA FROM NORTH LIBERTY INTO SOUTH BEND WAS THE RESULT OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...ESTIMATED BETWEEN 60-70 MPH. NG/MSL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OntarioChaser Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yup, these are my pics from Fergus last night. Equivalent to what I saw in Campbellville during 2013 ice storm. Even more ice in fact but slightly less wind (still gusting to 40km/h) so they evened out. Constant power flashes and trees crashing down . Caught this hydro line explosion as well: Not my pics but this is from about 30 minutes north of me. Over 1.3" (35mm) ice accretion in Fergus, ON. Incredible to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 IWX confirms EF-0 tornado PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 447 PM EDT FRI MAR 25 2016 /347 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016/ ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 3/24/16 TORNADO EVENT... .EDWARDSBURG MICHIGAN TORNADO... RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 75 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1.4 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: MARCH 24 2016 START TIME: 314 PM EDT START LOCATION: 1.1 MI W OF EDWARDSBURG, MI START LAT/LON: 41.7925 / -86.1027 END DATE: MARCH 24 2016 END TIME: 318 PM EDT END LOCATION: 0.3 MI N OF EDWARDSBURG, MI END LAT/LON: 41.8000 / -86.0787 SURVEY SUMMARY: THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 1.1 MI W OF EDWARDSBURG, MI AT THE NORTH END OF SUNDANCE ROAD JUST SOUTH OF US-12. A VIDEO WAS TAKEN THAT SHOWS DEBRIS BEING LOFTED WITH NOTABLE ROTATION. THE TORNADO TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST AND HEAVILY DAMAGED A BARN AND REMOVED SHINGLES AND PART OF THE ROOF OF A CHURCH JUST SOUTH OF US-12. AS THE TORNADO TRACKED INTO EDWARDSBURG, TREES WERE UPROOTED. THE TORNADO LIFTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF M-62 AND US-12, WHERE SEVERAL MORE TREES WERE DAMAGED OR UPROOTED. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK CASS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE WITH THIS SURVEY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yup, these are my pics from Fergus last night. Equivalent to what I saw in Campbellville during 2013 ice storm. Even more ice in fact but slightly less wind (still gusting to 40km/h) so they evened out. Constant power flashes and trees crashing down . Caught this hydro line explosion as well: That is some crazy stuff! What was the max total for Ice acc. around your area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Crazy video Ontario Chaser. Never seen an ice storm as bad as you got. More wind would have been devastating to the grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 IWX confirms EF-0 tornado PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 447 PM EDT FRI MAR 25 2016 /347 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016/ ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 3/24/16 TORNADO EVENT... .EDWARDSBURG MICHIGAN TORNADO... RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 75 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1.4 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: MARCH 24 2016 START TIME: 314 PM EDT START LOCATION: 1.1 MI W OF EDWARDSBURG, MI START LAT/LON: 41.7925 / -86.1027 END DATE: MARCH 24 2016 END TIME: 318 PM EDT END LOCATION: 0.3 MI N OF EDWARDSBURG, MI END LAT/LON: 41.8000 / -86.0787 SURVEY SUMMARY: THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 1.1 MI W OF EDWARDSBURG, MI AT THE NORTH END OF SUNDANCE ROAD JUST SOUTH OF US-12. A VIDEO WAS TAKEN THAT SHOWS DEBRIS BEING LOFTED WITH NOTABLE ROTATION. THE TORNADO TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST AND HEAVILY DAMAGED A BARN AND REMOVED SHINGLES AND PART OF THE ROOF OF A CHURCH JUST SOUTH OF US-12. AS THE TORNADO TRACKED INTO EDWARDSBURG, TREES WERE UPROOTED. THE TORNADO LIFTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF M-62 AND US-12, WHERE SEVERAL MORE TREES WERE DAMAGED OR UPROOTED. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK CASS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE WITH THIS SURVEY. That tor occurred in a marginal environment to say the least. Even the more bullish NAM had been showing very little instability that far north and from what I can tell, temps were in the mid 50s with dews in the low 50s in that area around the time the storms occurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OntarioChaser Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 That is some crazy stuff! What was the max total for Ice acc. around your area? I measured multiple occurrences of 3.5-4cm accretion around Fergus! Combined with winds gusting to 40km/h, it led to a disastrous outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I measured multiple occurrences of 3.5-4cm accretion around Fergus! Combined with winds gusting to 40km/h, it led to a disastrous outcome. Yeah this was one for the books I think. Eclipsed the Dec 2013 ice storm in terms of qpf and accretion. 1 in 30 year return interval I'd suspect at the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yeah this was one for the books I think. Eclipsed the Dec 2013 ice storm in terms of qpf and accretion. 1 in 30 year return interval I'd suspect at the least. Are people still without power up there? Was Orangeville hit hard as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OntarioChaser Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Are people still without power up there? Was Orangeville hit hard as well? Yup, over 50,000 still. Some will be for several days if not over a week. Orangeville hit hard, not quite as bad as Fergus though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 IWX found two more EF0s PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 830 PM EDT FRI MAR 25 2016 /730 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016/ ..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 3/24/16 TORNADO EVENT TORNADO 2: HANNA INDIANA TORNADO RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 85 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.9 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 100 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: MARCH 24 2016 START TIME: 130 PM CDT START LOCATION: 3.3 MI NE OF HANNA, IN START LAT/LON: 41.4392 / -86.7301 END DATE: MARCH 24 2016 END TIME: 133 PM CDT END LOCATION: 4.0 MI NE OF HANNA, IN END LAT/LON: 41.4442 / -86.7133 SURVEY SUMMARY: A NWS SURVEY OF DAMAGE FOUND INDICATIONS OF A TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN IN AN OPEN FIELD EAST OF THE INTERSECTION STATE ROUTE 39 AND WEST COUNTY ROAD 1150 SOUTH. THE TORNADO QUICKLY MOVED NORTHEAST CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO A SMALL GROVE OF TREES...CROSSED 1150 SOUTH AND SNAPPED 4 POWER POLES BEFORE LIFTING NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS SOUTH 100 WEST AND WEST 1150 SOUTH. OTHER DAMAGE WAS FOUND SOUTHEAST OF THE TRACK OF THIS TORNADO THAT APPEARED CONSISTENT WITH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF AT LEAST 75 MPH. SEVERAL CALF SHELTERS WERE PICKED UP WITH THE CALVES STILL IN THEM AND CARRIED AS FAR AS A MILE TO THE EAST OF THE FARM...WHICH WAS LOCATION JUST NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD SOUTH 100 EAST AND EAST 1200 SOUTH. AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY...SOME OF THE CALVES WERE UNACCOUNTED FOR. SEVERAL CENTER PIVOTS IN THE AREA ALSO WERE FLIPPED. TORNADO 3: SOUTH WANATAH INDIANA TORNADO RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 85 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.1 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: MARCH 24 2016 START TIME: 126 PM CDT START LOCATION: 2.5 MI SE OF SOUTH WANATAH, IN START LAT/LON: 41.3747 / -86.8731 END DATE: MARCH 24 2016 END TIME: 127 PM CDT END LOCATION: 2.5 MI SE OF SOUTH WANATAH, IN END LAT/LON: 41.3748 / -86.8714 SURVEY SUMMARY: A NWS SURVEY OF DAMAGE AND EYEWITNESS REPORTS INDICATED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN AN OPEN FIELD SOUTHWEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF WEST COUNTY ROAD 1600 SOUTH AND SOUTH 900 WEST. THE TORNADO MOVED QUICKLY EAST AND CAUSED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A 120 BY 80 FOOT POLE BARN WITH 80 PERCENT OF THE ROOF BEING REMOVED AND THROWN INTO AN ADJACENT FIELD. NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO SURROUNDING STRUCTURES AND THE DEBRIS STOPPED ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE EAST OF THE DAMAGED STRUCTURE. AN ADJACENT NORTH-SOUTH ORIENTED CENTER PIVOT IRRIGATION SYSTEM WAS UNDAMAGED. THE TORNADO WAS THEREFORE THOUGHT TO HAVE LIFTED SHORTLY AFTER IMPACTING THE POLE BARN. WE WISH TO THANK THE LOCAL RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS FOR THE HELP IN ASSESSING THE DAMAGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Yeah this was one for the books I think. Eclipsed the Dec 2013 ice storm in terms of qpf and accretion. 1 in 30 year return interval I'd suspect at the least. Wow! Then the NAM really did verify with those ice acc. totals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcaine Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Have to give the models credit for nailing the heavy icing out in Wellington, Dufferin counties and the Barrie/Aliston area. The NAM was right in showing an inch+ of precipitation falling as freezing rain in those areas. Accretion in those areas were probably in line with what the December 2013 produced for Toronto. Still over 100,000 customers without power at this time. The HRRR runs the morning of the 24th were correct as well in predicting the cold air that remained entrenched over those areas producing significant freezing rain yesterday evening/night. Pretty amazing setup, and the bow echo that rolled through around 8pm was incredible. I can't ever remember seeing precipitation that heavy during a freezing rain event. It was torrential. All in all, a great event to track. It was funny that some were calling bust yesterday morning and things had barely got going yet! This was the surface analysis just after precipitation finished last night. Pretty much anywhere to the east got slammed (minus Toronto proper). The warm sector essentially continued to shrink as the cold front approached and the warm front stalled out. For almost the entire day that freeze line never moved even as the heaviest precipitation rolled through. Well, those of us saying that were Toronto and it definitely was a bust for Toronto. We got barely 1" of snow! Less than 10 mm of ice accretion. No big wind. Very small QPF. Nothing about this storm was particularly noteworthy for the GTA, and we had lots of model runs with either heavy ZR amounts, heavy snow amounts or high QPF. None of the above came even close to verifying in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Well, those of us saying that were Toronto and it definitely was a bust for Toronto. We got barely 1" of snow! Less than 10 mm of ice accretion. No big wind. Very small QPF. Nothing about this storm was particularly noteworthy for the GTA, and we had lots of model runs with either heavy ZR amounts, heavy snow amounts or high QPF. None of the above came even close to verifying in the end. I'll disagree with you. The f-gen band was a bust but the fact that we never turned over to plain rain kind of saved this storm for me. 28,000 without power in the city proper at the height of the storm. It had an impact even if muted. And 0.64" of QPF at YYZ, while half what the models were spitting out, I couldn't classify as "very small". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Made an album on photobucket with my phone pics from the ice storm http://s901.photobucket.com/user/medusan/library/March%202016%20Ice%20Storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Made an album on photobucket with my phone pics from the ice storm http://s901.photobucket.com/user/medusan/library/March%202016%20Ice%20Storm Awesome pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Impressive! That kind of ice is something rarely seen around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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