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June 28-30 Severe/Heavy Rain Threats


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This rain/storm event has been a huge bust for southeast Iowa.  For several days, the WPC consistently had southeast Iowa in the 3-5" rainfall bullseye.  Locations from Ottumwa to Burlington have received a tenth or two at most.  I came up well short of the potential as well, but my inch over the two days is at least decent.

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2 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

This rain/storm event has been a huge bust for southeast Iowa.  For several days, the WPC consistently had southeast Iowa in the 3-5" rainfall bullseye.  Locations from Ottumwa to Burlington have received a tenth or two at most.  I came up well short of the potential as well, but my inch over the two days is at least decent.

Had a couple relatively brief downpours earlier, but missing the better rains again.

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4 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

This rain/storm event has been a huge bust for southeast Iowa.  For several days, the WPC consistently had southeast Iowa in the 3-5" rainfall bullseye.  Locations from Ottumwa to Burlington have received a tenth or two at most.  I came up well short of the potential as well, but my inch over the two days is at least decent.

Yeah it's been a big letdown locally. 

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New IWX Aviation update sounds promising

.AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Friday Evening)
Issued at 129 AM EDT Fri Jun 30 2017

MCV along the IN/MI border will continue ewd nr term with associated 
shra/tsra coming to an end. Otherwise subsidence and drying follows 
with VFR expected although weak mixing and partial clearing could 
yield some fog and potential ifr stratus prior to daybreak.  Will 
monitor closely.

Fcst by this aftn a bit more tricky. Sat data would suggest upstream 
cloud debris blowing off impressive MCS in srn KS will stay south 
resulting in a favorable diurnal destabilization trend here. However 
a clear cut focusing mechanism absent ewd of cold front pushing out 
IL Fri evening with general marginal moist low level mass flux 
extending downstream throughout the warm sector. Thus vcts mention 
best course of action toward mid aftn at this time. Regardless 
forcing along the incoming cold front looks to promote a period of 
intense rain producing storms by late aftn invof KSBN and early 
evening invof KFWA. 

Shallow post frontal cold advection follows later Fri evening with 
mvfr based stratocu a good bet especially in light of what should be 
a still moist boundary layer.
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New day 1

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Day 1 Convective Outlook 
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   1246 AM CDT Fri Jun 30 2017

   Valid 301200Z - 011200Z

   ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM OKLAHOMA
   NORTHEAST THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY AND INTO WESTERN NEW ENGLAND...

   ...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SURROUNDING THE
   SLIGHT RISK FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS TO THE NORTHEAST U.S....

   ...SUMMARY...
   Scattered severe thunderstorms are possible from Oklahoma northeast
   into the lower Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes today.  Damaging
   wind gusts and hail are the primary threats.

   ...Synopsis...
   A broad corridor of cyclonic mid-level flow will encompass much of
   the central U.S. and OH Valley with a series of shortwave troughs
   moving east.  One of these disturbances, likely responsible for
   ongoing thunderstorm activity at the beginning of the period, will
   move from the central Plains eastward into the middle MS Valley by
   mid afternoon and subsequently to the Lower Great Lakes by daybreak
   Saturday.  An upstream impulse will move from the central Rockies
   eastward into the middle MS Valley during the period.  In the low
   levels, a cold front will push south across northwest TX.
   Convectively modulated boundaries will focus storm development.

   ...Southern Plains into the Ozarks...
   Large uncertainty exists for this forecast with thunderstorm
   activity preceding the outlook period, and continuing this morning
   from perhaps eastern portions of OK northeast to the MS river.  A
   MCV from this convection may move east during the morning into the
   early afternoon and aid in sustaining storm development within a
   moist/unstable airmass across the Mid South with isolated to
   scattered pockets of wind damage possible.  Models vary regarding
   destabilization in wake of the early-day activity across the
   southern Plains and storm placement.  A generalized Slight Risk
   seems appropriate this outlook update given large uncertainty for
   mainly portions of OK.  Refinements in later outlooks may be able to
   discern higher probabilities for hail if potential in some models
   can be realized.  Hail/wind are forecast to be the primary threats
   with diurnally generated storms with weakening expected during the
   evening.

   ...Lower OH Valley northeast into western New England...
   Differential heating along residual outflow will probably contribute
   to storm development during the midday-mid afternoon period within
   this general corridor.  Surface dewpoints in the 60s degrees F will
   yield 500-1500 J/kg MLCAPE.  Several convectively generated
   mid-level vorticity maxima may focus clusters of stronger storms.
   Moderate west-southwesterly 500-mb flow ranging from 25-45 kt will
   conditionally support storm organization, mainly in the form of
   multicells.  Wind gusts 45-60 mph with the stronger downdrafts will
   probably result in pockets of localized wind damage.  Convective
   outflow and the loss of diurnal heating will lessen the severe risk
   during the evening.

   ..Smith/Jirak.. 06/30/2017

 

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9 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

This rain/storm event has been a huge bust for southeast Iowa.  For several days, the WPC consistently had southeast Iowa in the 3-5" rainfall bullseye.  Locations from Ottumwa to Burlington have received a tenth or two at most.  I came up well short of the potential as well, but my inch over the two days is at least decent.

 

9 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Yeah it's been a big letdown locally. 

It's a fairly consistent problem when relying on severe convection to be the rain producer. Heavy rains did pan out Wednesday with a lot of training cells near the IA/MO border, where a few reports of 10-12" of rain did end up occurring. The models also had no clue how to handle the overnight MCS Wednesday night into Thursday morning, which had a lot of implications for where boundaries set up for Thursday afternoon's storms. The mishandling of the overnight convection really screwed a lot of things up... southern IA went from an enhanced risk to marginal risk and barely was able to destabilize during the afternoon.

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Omaha metro really got nailed last evening by large hail.  There are a lot of reports of golf ball to tennis ball size with one report of nearly 4" diameter.  About a week ago Omaha experienced 70-90 mph wind from a storm, and Lincoln has been hit hard a couple times as well, so that area has been a real hot spot.

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The house was grazed (literally, had you gone about 10 or houses down the block, there was not a drop of rain) by a tiny pop-up t'storm ahead of the mass area of stratiform rains / embedded thunder during the late afternoon hours.

That said, I was actually in Eastpointe under the core of the cell and it was raining cats and dogs for a good 20-30 minutes.

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1 hour ago, Powerball said:

The house was grazed (literally, had you gone about 10 or houses down the block, there was not a drop of rain) by a tiny pop-up t'storm ahead of the mass area of stratiform rains / embedded thunder during the late afternoon hours.

That said, I was actually in Eastpointe under the core of the cell and it was raining cats and dogs for a good 20-30 minutes.

I like hearing that

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