HillsdaleMIWeather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 25 minutes ago, Jim Martin said: By looking at the soundings for Northwest Ohio, starting to think that a hail risk could be possible as well for Friday. This would be especially true with initial development. 850mb temps on the NAM certainly looks supportive of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Looks like a couple rounds possible on Friday... prefrontal and then farther back closer to the cold front. As far as imby, timing will be important as a quicker solution would basically put the entire threat farther east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Looks like a couple rounds possible on Friday... prefrontal and then farther back closer to the cold front. As far as imby, timing will be important as a quicker solution would basically put the entire threat farther east. Do you think supercells before the front arrives is a good chance (like the 4K NAM has been advertising) is possible, or more wishful thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 8 minutes ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said: Do you think supercells before the front arrives is a good chance (like the 4K NAM has been advertising) is possible, or more wishful thinking. Certainly a possibility, provided sufficient enough warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Have to remind myself that this is northern Indiana in February Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlogin Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I understand your concern, this is not an ordinary Feb----- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Hoosier said: Have to remind myself that this is northern Indiana in February That would be a great sounding for April even into early May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 The secondary low feature along the front is now showing on both 4/12km NAM, on the GFS in the pressure fields though the wind fields are erroneously veered and on the Euro where it is closer to the NAM but still slightly veered at the surface. The Euro would be the compromise between the two. The big takeaway is that the potential of a secondary low is becoming real and this has a potential of locally backing the winds and enhancing the tornado potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 12 minutes ago, Stebo said: That would be a great sounding for April even into early May. Have to see if it actually gets that warm that far north, but it looks possible as most of the precip initially will be near/north of the retreating warm front. Any breaks or thinning in the clouds during the day, along with just the advection process could allow for temps near those levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 SREF continues to grow stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 16 minutes ago, KokomoWX said: SREF continues to grow stronger. IWXs afternoon AFD was REALLY bullish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 18Z NAM still has over 1000 CAPE widespread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillsdaleMIWeather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Dayum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Here's a sort-of-analogous example of a low-CAPE derecho, with shear that is much higher than average. Trees were knocked down by winds all over Ohio, March 9, 2002. I was there. It only rained for about 2 minutes, but there were trees down in my town anyway. Preceding conditions at ILN sounding at 12z showed SRH of 471 m2/s2. So SRH may have been over 300 m2/s2 at the time of the derecho. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/020309_rpts.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I agree with the hail threat as mentioned earlier, these are some pretty steep mid level lapse rates we're seeing. My concern with tornadoes isn't so much the ingredients, as much as it is how setups like this often lead to messy storm modes. We see it all the time where it's hard with so much forcing aloft to get that classic supercell with so much stuff firing at once before it all congeals into a lineSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 It will be interesting to see if the NAM is onto something. 18z RGEM is 100-150 farther SW with the surface low, but still shows upper 50s dews reaching the IN/MI border. Caveat: low level winds more veered to SW/SSW. The appearance of a notable prefrontal trough will make a big difference in the tornado potential. Without it, anything beyond a gusty squall line seems unlikely. With it, a fairly unusual late February severe threat could materialize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Perry Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Have to remind myself that it's only February. Really a lot having to come together this far north... like today, fog and low level clouds were anticipated to clear out by 11AM. It's now six hours later and the low clouds and fog are still holding strong. Got no where near our projected high of 68°. I feel like this will be the case (atleast this far north) again on Friday due to loads of GOM moisture pooling northward (dewpoints in the upper 50's and even 60's in February is very impressive), even then a gusty line of quick moving storms would be likely in these parts. Looks like areas to the south really have a better chance of clearing out and getting unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 36 minutes ago, Quincy said: It will be interesting to see if the NAM is onto something. 18z RGEM is 100-150 farther SW with the surface low, but still shows upper 50s dews reaching the IN/MI border. Caveat: low level winds more veered to SW/SSW. The appearance of a notable prefrontal trough will make a big difference in the tornado potential. Without it, anything beyond a gusty squall line seems unlikely. With it, a fairly unusual late February severe threat could materialize. Yeah, the prefrontal activity should make or break this from a tornado perspective (not that something couldn't occur closer to the front). Even so, don't have tremendous directional shear and some of the hodos I've seen have a little bit of a kink, which will need to be monitored. Winter tornadoes in the Ohio Valley aren't really rare, but it's a lot more unusual the closer you get to I-80 and northward. This is a pretty unusual setup though for this time of year in the sense that we are not really having to race against time to get a massive northward moisture flux before the system moves out... the moisture is pretty much already in the area. All this with a partial obstacle in that cutoff low down south, as has been discussed. Pretty remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 2 hours ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said: IWXs afternoon AFD was REALLY bullish Yeah, Lonnie Fisher is usually kind of conservative. He sounds excited about the possibilities for IWX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrad08 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 It's already been stated but I agree in this type of setup that generally the greater threat and chance of anything discrete sets up well south.... In this case I would bet on Indy if not further south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti tornado Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 this is new... broken line segments/discrete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, Anti tornado said: this is new... broken line segments/discrete Was just going to post that. Just prior to that there's a prefrontal and frontal areas of convection, but it eventually merges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllinoisWedges Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 11 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Was just going to post that. Just prior to that there's a prefrontal and frontal areas of convection, but it eventually merges. Digging NC Indiana as of now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadohunter Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 minute ago, IllinoisWedges said: Digging NC Indiana as of now. Im thinking just east of Indy is the best area to sit. Something with good north south options. Definitely want be north of any developing cells. Wont be easy to catch these approaching from south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 10 minutes ago, IllinoisWedges said: Digging NC Indiana as of now. Not a bad spot. Just to give an idea of what we're up against as far as climo, here are some charts of severe frequency in the IWX cwa. Almost no activity in February, but this only covers the period from 1980-2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Thought about maybe heading out east to chase this setup if things continued to look better. Looked at a few soundings and saw the 50-60kt storm speeds, and was like naaaa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadohunter Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Sounding out of south central michigan.....incredible for Feb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 4 minutes ago, tornadohunter said: Sounding out of south central michigan.....incredible for Feb I think that's north of the warm front with the near-surface inversion there. Soundings from south of the WF generally in the K'zoo/Battle Creek/Jackson area look pretty decent though on the 18z NAM. The Euro seems to be way undershooting the rest of the models with the moisture, I'd be interested to see its verification with dewpoints since the upgrade last year because it seems to me that it has ended up lowballing quite a few events in this respect since then (was particularly noticeable in May last year). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, andyhb said: I think that's north of the warm front with the near-surface inversion there. Soundings from south of the WF generally in the K'zoo/Battle Creek/Jackson area look pretty decent though on the 18z NAM. The Euro seems to be way undershooting the rest of the models with the moisture, I'd be interested to see its verification with dewpoints since the upgrade last year because it seems to me that it has ended up lowballing quite a few events in this respect since then (was particularly noticeable in May last year). Like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 20 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Thought about maybe heading out east to chase this setup if things continued to look better. Looked at a few soundings and saw the 50-60kt storm speeds, and was like naaaa. I don't blame you. I'm liking just to the west of MBY as a starting place. I don't want to blink as they race by or I'll miss it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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