CAPE Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: Not loving the radar for the 95 corridor right now 12z 3km NAM and the latest HRRR runs concur. Best dynamics lift well NE it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDphotog Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 That cell near Taneytown and Union Bridge just blew up quick. Maybe seeing a small outflow boundary near US 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Meanwhile the Tidewater is getting clocked pretty good with heavy rain. Looks like a nice dead zone setting up between the line passing well to the NW, and the stuff to the SE. Not interested in the least in severe, just some heavy downpours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 29 minutes ago, mappy said: Watch expanded along the MD line That includes us. Nice soupy southerly breeze. It's quite disgusting actually. Running central a/c for the first time of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Swing a miss for the area today. Nice line from about extreme northern MD into PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Storms saw that watch box get extended into Baltimore and nope'd right up into PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 Don't look now...but the 12z CIPS analogs in the Southeast domain have June 29, 2012 in the analogs - along with some other VERY robust events. The domain that is over us isn't showing much for now - but that period really bears watching now. http://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/DFHR.php?reg=SE&fhr=F132&rundt=2020052912&map=thbPPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: Don't look now...but the 12z CIPS analogs in the Southeast domain have June 29, 2012 in the analogs - along with some other VERY robust events. The domain that is over us isn't showing much for now - but that period really bears watching now. http://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/DFHR.php?reg=SE&fhr=F132&rundt=2020052912&map=thbPPF 8/15 referenced events have a DC hotspots and we are overdue for a derecho in these parts from a climo perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: 8/15 referenced events have a DC hotspots and we are overdue for a derecho in these parts from a climo perspective. Here's what I predict - it will start looking REALLY ripe in the next few model cycles. And then by the time the day rolls around - it will be a miserable failure with socked in clouds and crap mid-level lapse rates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 What is striking to me - not that we didn't all already know this...but how insanely widespread and striking that report map and PPF map is from 2012. Insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 1 minute ago, Kmlwx said: Here's what I predict - it will start looking REALLY ripe in the next few model cycles. And then by the time the day rolls around - it will be a miserable failure with socked in clouds and crap mid-level lapse rates. I agree. June 2012 was an anomalous event. We had extreme temps and a stout EML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 Just now, Eskimo Joe said: I agree. June 2012 was an anomalous event. We had extreme temps and a stout EML. Triple digit temps and like 5500 CAPE. Not sure we'll see something like that for a long while. I think if anything the trajectory of an MCS next week could be similar - impacts you'd have to assume would be much lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Just now, Kmlwx said: Triple digit temps and like 5500 CAPE. Not sure we'll see something like that for a long while. I think if anything the trajectory of an MCS next week could be similar - impacts you'd have to assume would be much lower. The 850 temps sampled on the 18z special RAOB ahead of the line occurred only 5 times before in recorded history at the IAD site. You could tell early in the day on the 12z ILN site that something big was about to happen because the EML was evident so early in the morning. That airmass advected ahead of the complex and sustained it over the mountain. Reanalysis of the event showed that every meso model that correctly modeled the EML successfully predicted the derecho making it to the coastline. If there's on big takeaway from that event, it was that correctly sampling, identifying and modeling EMLs in the Mid Atlantic will significantly increase the ability of forecasters to anticipate these events and provide timely IDSS to the appropriate officials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 Just now, Eskimo Joe said: The 850 temps sampled on the 18z special RAOB ahead of the line occurred only 5 times before in recorded history at the IAD site. You could tell early in the day on the 12z ILN site that something big was about to happen because the EML was evident so early in the morning. That airmass advected ahead of the complex and sustained it over the mountain. Reanalysis of the event showed that every meso model that correctly modeled the EML successfully predicted the derecho making it to the coastline. If there's on big takeaway from that event, it was that correctly sampling, identifying and modeling EMLs in the Mid Atlantic will significantly increase the ability of forecasters to anticipate these events and provide timely IDSS to the appropriate officials. EMLs really do seem to be our "magic bullet" for our highest end events - at least of the derecho variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Zanclidae said: That includes us. Nice soupy southerly breeze. It's quite disgusting actually. Running central a/c for the first time of the year. Didn’t get much but a shelf cloud and two rumbles of thunder. Light rain as the best stuff missed me and went into pa. Saw some tree damage in Shrewsbury when I went out to get dinner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: EMLs really do seem to be our "magic bullet" for our highest end events - at least of the derecho variety. This is a must read paper about the role of EMLs and severe weather from DC north. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2010WAF2222363.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 11 minutes ago, mappy said: Didn’t get much but a shelf cloud and two rumbles of thunder. Light rain as the best stuff missed me and went into pa. Saw some tree damage in Shrewsbury when I went out to get dinner Pretty much same here. Some wind and rumbles and alerts for CG lightning <20 miles from the antenna here. Breeze settled down a lot but just had the dog outside and it's quite muggy. I don't know if anyone here remembers that silly movie "Click" but if I had a remote that let me skip things I'd probably skip to November. Of course skipping 7 months/year means you'd notice everyone around you aging faster. Even in an imaginary world there are limits. Skipping traffic jams and taxes though, wouldn't mind that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 45 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: This is a must read paper about the role of EMLs and severe weather from DC north. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2010WAF2222363.1 The EML is definitely essential here if we want a wind system to survive its trip over the mountains. In 2000, a bow echo was racing east towards us, and SPC put out the rare PDS severe thunderstorm watch, and it completely crapped out trying to cross the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia. We ended up with showers that gusted to 30 kt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 27 minutes ago, high risk said: The EML is definitely essential here if we want a wind system to survive its trip over the mountains. In 2000, a bow echo was racing east towards us, and SPC put out the rare PDS severe thunderstorm watch, and it completely crapped out trying to cross the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia. We ended up with showers that gusted to 30 kt. What month was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 8 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: What month was that? August. August 9, 2000 to be exact. It was even Severe Thunderstorm Watch 666. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, George BM said: August. August 9, 2000 to be exact. It was even Severe Thunderstorm Watch 666. Lol. Wow - that was a quick recall. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/rview/watch.phtml?year=2000&num=666 Anybody have the watch text? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: Wow - that was a quick recall. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/rview/watch.phtml?year=2000&num=666 Anybody have the watch text? Yeap. URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 666 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1219 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARYLAND SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA NORTHERN VIRGINIA CENTRASL AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 100 PM UNTIL 700 PM EDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS. ALSO...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 95 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MORGANTOWN WEST VIRGINIA TO 10 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF BALTIMORE MARYLAND. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 665... DISCUSSION...INTENSE BOW ECHO OVER SERN OHIO IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE EWD AT 55 KT ACROSS THE APPALACHIANS WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY. ACTIIVTY WILL REACH THE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON DC AREA AROUND 5 PM. AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 80 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27055. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 8 minutes ago, Kmlwx said: Wow - that was a quick recall. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/rview/watch.phtml?year=2000&num=666 Anybody have the watch text? Should be in the SPC archives ETA: @George BM beat me to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 7 minutes ago, yoda said: Should be in the SPC archives ETA: @George BM beat me to it https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20000809 All the watches, MCDs, and text products issued during the day... plus storm reports as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 95mph winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 nice work, everyone! I remember that event quite well. I was warning people at work not to be on the roads at rush hour. That alert didn't work out too well...... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 10 hours ago, high risk said: nice work, everyone! I remember that event quite well. I was warning people at work not to be on the roads at rush hour. That alert didn't work out too well...... I'm just glad that I was not old enough (4 years old) to remember that debacle of an 'event'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 In all fairness - I guess it *was* way back in 2000. We've come a long way with research and NWP. I don't doubt that a bust like that can still occur - but hopefully not to that degree. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Congrats intermountain NW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Wow - don't see that too often! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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