yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 18z NAM soundings at 00z Sunday for KIAD and KDCA set off a few alarm bells in my opinion... notice the quick increase in EHI/sup potential/SRH from 21z to 00z... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 2 hours ago, yoda said: 18z NAM soundings at 00z Sunday for KIAD and KDCA set off a few alarm bells in my opinion... notice the quick increase in EHI/sup potential/SRH from 21z to 00z... intriguing for sure, but I don't like seeing the 250 winds currently progged at only 20-25 kt. Still, if we can get one or two cells to somehow pop, would think that some decent hail would be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, high risk said: intriguing for sure, but I don't like seeing the 250 winds currently progged at only 20-25 kt. Still, if we can get one or two cells to somehow pop, would think that some decent hail would be possible. 00z NAM soundings for 21z and 00z at both KDCA and KIAD look like a loaded gun ready for firing... KBWI at 00z certainly suggest a tor threat with its sounding... getting interested on maybe some big isolated storms in the region Saturday evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 8 hours ago, yoda said: 00z NAM soundings for 21z and 00z at both KDCA and KIAD look like a loaded gun ready for firing... KBWI at 00z certainly suggest a tor threat with its sounding... getting interested on maybe some big isolated storms in the region Saturday evening Yea that's the thing with Saturday...there won't be much on the radar just a few winners and many losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 maybe some boomers tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 59 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: Yea that's the thing with Saturday...there won't be much on the radar just a few winners and many losers. Mason Dixon line probably the winners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said: Yea that's the thing with Saturday...there won't be much on the radar just a few winners and many losers. Definitely has the feel of the type of day when a long cell drops a swath of like golfball hail and wind damage in a super narrow corridor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, mappy said: maybe some boomers tonight? Hope not. Need to mow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 NAM is printing out some ridiculous SBCAPE/MLCAPE values for saturday evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 minute ago, yoda said: NAM is printing out some ridiculous SBCAPE/MLCAPE values for saturday evening And yet almost nothing on sim radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Kmlwx said: And yet almost nothing on sim radar Should have said that was the 06z soundings... 12z isn't out yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 32 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: Sounds about right for our area 4500 CAPE and nada...exactly. So what do we do when the WxWatcher scale is at odds with itself. Eskimo Joe is "in" but I am out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodhokie Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 6 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: So what do we do when the WxWatcher scale is at odds with itself. Eskimo Joe is "in" but I am out Means we are only at Step 1 since Yoda is in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: 4500 CAPE and nada...exactly. So what do we do when the WxWatcher scale is at odds with itself. Eskimo Joe is "in" but I am out Actually I think of the scale as parameters. Kwlwx: 1 Eskimo Joe: Higher than Kwlwx Yoda: Fairly High Etc. High cape with no forcing: storms can't form. Need multiple parameters and forcing for storms to form, just as multiple people need to be "in" for hypes to organize.............If you understood anything that I just said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 21 minutes ago, George BM said: Actually I think of the scale as parameters. Kwlwx: 1 Eskimo Joe: Higher than Kwlwx Yoda: Fairly High Etc. High cape with no forcing: storms can't form. Need multiple parameters and forcing for storms to form, just as multiple people need to be "in" for hypes to organize.............If you understood anything that I just said. Wait what? Yoda is the lowest on the scale. He gets excited for a rumble of thunder I'm medium-ish EJ is like the world is ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1630z OTLK has marginal risk just west of I-95 for this afternoon into evening Quote ...OH/PA/NY/WV/VA... The latest surface analysis shows a cold front sweeping eastward across Lower MI and western OH. Only broken cloud cover ahead of the front is helping surface temperatures to climb through the mid 70s, resulting in steep low-level lapse rates and marginal instability. 12z CAM solutions are relatively consistent that scattered showers and thunderstorm development this afternoon along/ahead of the front from eastern OH into much of WV and western PA. The storms will eventually spread into central PA/VA and western MD this evening. Strongly considered an upgrade to SLGT over parts of this corridor. However, forecast soundings suggest very little CAPE and mid-level lapse rate only in the 6.0 C/km range. It is likely that a few fast-moving showers and thunderstorms will pose a risk of gusty/damaging wind gusts this afternoon. This region will be re-evaluated for an upgrade to SLGT at 20z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 32 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: Wait what? Yoda is the lowest on the scale. He gets excited for a rumble of thunder I'm medium-ish EJ is like the world is ending. I hope Saturday's storms miss your area and produces a wedge just to your south so you miss it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 4 hours ago, mappy said: maybe some boomers tonight? radar will look really good to our west this evening, but it's going to be a race to see if the storms can get here before the late evening cooling kicks in and destroys the instability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 ^Radar in Alabama look good now. At least 2 confirmed tornadoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said: ^Radar in Alabama look good now. At least 2 confirmed tornadoes. What does that have to do with our weather for later re storms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I should have clarified that today is the 6 year anniversary of the 2011 ''super outbreak'' and it's ironic to see at least 2 confirmed tornadoes ongoing today...with no red box nonetheless. The event later transitioned into several tornadoes during the wee hours of April 28th in our neck of the woods. Just felt it ever so tangentially connected with our region. I'll shut up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 21 minutes ago, yoda said: What does that have to do with our weather for later re storms? Wow Yoda. Pretty sassy today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 35 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: I should have clarified that today is the 6 year anniversary of the 2011 ''super outbreak'' and it's ironic to see at least 2 confirmed tornadoes ongoing today...with no red box nonetheless. The event later transitioned into several tornadoes during the wee hours of April 28th in our neck of the woods. Just felt it ever so tangentially connected with our region. I'll shut up now. At the risk of going too far off track, we even had some tornadoes around here in the late afternoon / early evening hours (while the horror was occurring in the deep south), including one near Andrews AFB. During the midnight hours, there was a long track EF2 in the Shenandoah Valley. We were in tornado watches for something like 18 straight hours, which is almost impossible to do here. Back to Saturday, I'm mostly out for now. Hard to ignore the lack of initiation in the hi-res guidance, although a close inspection of soundings suggests that the cap isn't ferocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Just now, high risk said: At the risk of going too far off track, we even had some tornadoes around here in the late afternoon / early evening hours (while the horror was occurring in the deep south), including one near Andrews AFB. During the midnight hours, there was a long track EF2 in the Shenandoah Valley. We were in tornado watches for something like 18 straight hours, which is almost impossible to do here. Back to Saturday, I'm mostly out for now. Hard to ignore the lack of initiation in the hi-res guidance, although a close inspection of soundings suggests that the cap isn't ferocious. Yea, that was an insane event locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Lots of fuel at least - just need something to set it all off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 HOLY CRAP AT THIS SOUNDING!!!!! This is absolutely nuts. I mean look at that lapse rates all the way up to the tropopause. Hail cape almost 600 J/KG. This setup Saturday has potential to be a rather prolific hail setup. We could be talking like storms capable of baseball hail...or bigger. This is insane. Obviously everything will have to fall in place but this is rather eye opening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treckasec Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: HOLY CRAP AT THIS SOUNDING!!!!! This is absolutely nuts. I mean look at that lapse rates all the way up to the tropopause. Hail cape almost 600 J/KG. This setup Saturday has potential to be a rather prolific hail setup. We could be talking like storms capable of baseball hail...or bigger. This is insane. Obviously everything will have to fall in place but this is rather eye opening I'd temper expectations. No real forcing mechanism and slightly capped. Might be preparation for 9999 CAPE summer days where nothing happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, high risk said: At the risk of going too far off track, we even had some tornadoes around here in the late afternoon / early evening hours (while the horror was occurring in the deep south), including one near Andrews AFB. During the midnight hours, there was a long track EF2 in the Shenandoah Valley. We were in tornado watches for something like 18 straight hours, which is almost impossible to do here. Back to Saturday, I'm mostly out for now. Hard to ignore the lack of initiation in the hi-res guidance, although a close inspection of soundings suggests that the cap isn't ferocious. Green = EF 0/1 Yellow = EF2 27th and 28th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Treckasec said: I'd temper expectations. No real forcing mechanism and slightly capped. Might be preparation for 9999 CAPE summer days where nothing happens. Wasn't saying I'd expect that...just talking about what potential would exist if everything was in place. That's a ridiculous sounding. Don't see it that unstable up to tropopause that often, especially in warm season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 38 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: HOLY CRAP AT THIS SOUNDING!!!!! This is absolutely nuts. I mean look at that lapse rates all the way up to the tropopause. Hail cape almost 600 J/KG. This setup Saturday has potential to be a rather prolific hail setup. We could be talking like storms capable of baseball hail...or bigger. This is insane. Obviously everything will have to fall in place but this is rather eye opening Well the sounding is at MTN... what about closer to us at IAD/DCA? Very intriguing post though Wiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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