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2020 Mid-Atlantic Severe Weather - General Thread


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4 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

All good points, none of which will likely be resolved until about <12 hours out.  We're just going to have to look for trends, timing, etc an monitor upstream conditions.  If we see an overperforming event in Dixie Alley with discrete action ahead of the main line, all bets are off and it could be the event of the spring.  If it's QLCS mess behind stratiform rain then we fail.

I haven't even looked at any potential of big synoptic wind behind the system either - with a storm of this nature that's always a threat as well. And like you said, any strong winds on saturated ground is going to do some damage. 

I still maintain that I'd prefer to be down in SEVA - but things look okay right now even up our way. 

Encouraged also by these dynamic systems - gives me hope we can line up something in May or June with a lot more instability and maybe still good shear etc. 

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3 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

IIRC, CIPS is weighted towards GEFS from HR 72 and out which is a good.  

It's showing an event from 03/13/2001 but I can't find anything matching that in the SPC Event Archive. I wonder if the date is wrong...

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39 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Here's ur answer from an SPC met:

 

Well it's weird because the PPF shows a big blob over us with reports. SPC Storm Archive appears to go back to 2000 - maybe some events are missing? Lemme grab a screenshot. 

 

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/

There's a 3/14 event - but it doesn't match this at all. 

2001031406_024_ppfall.png

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2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

It would be a legit MOD or maybe HIGH risk day.

Easily would be similar to April 27-28 2011 - but of course maybe not with that duration. The duration on that event was something I'm not sure we're going to see again outside of a tropical system. 

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      Any tornado potential would be confined to the early morning hours Monday (and dependent upon whether we can get some sfc-based instability), but the NAM is definitely leaving the door open for a line of storms on the front in the afternoon with its timing.    The best low-level wind fields are long gone by then, but some wind/hail potential would exist if it's correct.

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Yeah I hope people aren’t being lackadaisical down south for Sunday. Looks impressive, the 4/2011 analog is worth keeping in mind too 
 

monday is tricky, like EJ said, could end up being QLCS type setup, maybe some spin ups on front edge as notches form. Or could be a rainy event without much severe

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Anybody else catch the LWX afternoon AFD mentioning a possible repeat of February?

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.SHORT TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...

Quiet weather Sat with high pressure in control. Powerful storm
system is expected to develop over the Southern Plains Easter
Sunday and track northeast into the Great Lks in response to
negatively tilted trof. Rain/showers in warm advection pattern could
arrive into western zones as early as Sun morning, but bulk of
the heavy precip will be Sun night into midday Mon. Potential
for 1-2 inches of rain with this system. Flooding threat non-
zero, but does not appear to be a significant threat. Bigger
threat will be for severe t-storms Mon morning in a high
shear/low CAPE scenario similar to the Feb 07
Leesburg/Montgomery/Frederick/Carroll Counties tornadoes.
Cdfnt will clear the fcst area by 18Z Mon with strong post-
frontal winds in its wake. Potential for high winds of 50kt or
greater exists with frontal passage.

 

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1 hour ago, yoda said:

Anybody else catch the LWX afternoon AFD mentioning a possible repeat of February?

Oh yes, just finished clearing out the felled trees around the pasture (from Feb's storm) and have a few more widowmakers stuck in the ground from last night's winds.

And now this!  Chainsaws are ready!

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5 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

18z NAM had 70kt+ winds at 900mb on Monday morning.  That is really windy, really close to the surface.

And it looks like around 55-65 knots around 925mb at 12z Mon morning. Looks like the height for that is around 720m - so a bit over 2,000ft. Wonder how much of that will be able to transfer down to the surface in showers/storms.

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Plus 18z NAM is trying hard for around 2000+ SBCAPE at 18z and 21z MON across the region... along with 40 to 50 kts of deep layer shear... plus looks like there is still some leftover low level shear too at 18z and 21z

ETA: plus having 180 to 200 J/KG of MLCAPE at the 0-3km level isn't good

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