Hoosier Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 55 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: How far is this from you, @A-L-E-K? Could make a good case for that being the most significant tornado in the city limits since 1976. More recent ones have been EF0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 59 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Power still out here. The estimated day of restoration is Saturday. Hope that's wrong! Wow. That's gotta be rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Power still out here. The estimated day of restoration is Saturday. Hope that's wrong!ComEd did a broad brush estimation time of Saturday for everyone. Gotta think it’ll likely be longer for the harder hit areas.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Good thing that tornado warned part of the storm that went through Union Grove, WI has only been indicated to be straight line winds so far. UMB Wx and I almost chose a park about 3 miles ENE to be our viewing spot. Would’ve been really nervewracking being stuck in the heavy convection not knowing if an actual tornado was rain-wrapped in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chicago Storm Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Every time I post, they add another.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Calderon Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Estimates of up to 10mil acres, roughly 1/3, of Iowa's corn crop is damaged/destroyed. Unreal. https://www.kcci.com/article/derecho-damage-to-iowa-crops/33577652 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Images of the flattened corn in Iowa reminds me of the images of flattened pines in the Boundary Waters after the July 4th 1999 derecho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 If you use SPC filtered storm reports, 8/10 is the 2nd most active severe weather day in the US this year. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Clocked in Cedar Rapids. Rode it out in a corn field north of walford where I experienced 100mph wind gusts as the MCV intensified to the north. This is the same axis of damaging wind that came thru Cedar Rapids moving NE. I’ll leave a few pics for now. Worst storm I’ve ever experienced. Still without power and cell signal(1 bar LTE currently). I’ll post more when I can. For now here’s a few. https://imgur.com/a/Ezml1sS 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Power back on around 10 pm last night. Estimate had been 3 pm Saturday, Had it stayed it's course would have passed directly over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 11 hours ago, Chicago Storm said: . I assume this just missed here. Plenty of damaged trees but nowhere near the damage this could have caused. Just south nary a tree down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 14 hours ago, Chicago Storm said: How far is this from you, @A-L-E-K? quite far north from my apartment...but I'm pretty sure that is the same vort that earlier had produced the microburst (or whatever it was) that took out the 4 large trees at my office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 At least casualties were kept to a minimum... considering the large area impacted. Last I saw there were 2 deaths and less than 10 injuries reported. Generally speaking it seems like the warnings got out quickly, as they should when you have such an obvious thing on radar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 17 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: Images of the flattened corn in Iowa reminds me of the images of flattened pines in the Boundary Waters after the July 4th 1999 derecho. A friend of mine was in that in the BWCA when that happened. He thought he was gonna die. Trees coming down all around him. But his coffee cup never moved off the stump it was on. Crazy! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 LOT confirmed 2 more tornadoes. I think that makes 9 in the cwa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Hoosier said: LOT confirmed 2 more tornadoes. I think that makes 9 in the cwa. There were probably tornadoes in the DVN CWA, but when the background winds were similar to what you’d find in a QLCS tor, I have to imagine that’s hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 There were probably tornadoes in the DVN CWA, but when the background winds were similar to what you’d find in a QLCS tor, I have to imagine that’s hard to find.MV’s were not as predominant until the character of the derecho changed as it existed the DVN CWA, so I’m not sure there would have been many.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Natester Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Late reply here. Trees in the backyard are shredded, as with all of the trees in the neighborhood. No damage to the house asides 3 broken windows. I don't anticipate getting power back until at least Saturday or Sunday. Got battery powered fans and non perishable food from Waterloo Walmart yesterday. Also, very glad that we still have running water. Alliant is going to have a field day taking care of that cluster of shredded trees that brought down power lines behind the house. At least no power poles were snapped near where I live. Worst storm that I've ever been through. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
definitionofmadness Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 (Another late post from a distant casual observer) So Monday around 1pm, I went to my fav storm watching spot in far NW Dane Co, WI (1,100 ft elev). Views to the east, south and west seemed to be constantly filled with low clouds. And it was eerily quiet and hot and humid. Then on radar I could see (and hear) that storms were beginning to scrape by, just to my south. Although I could see close lightning strikes, the thunder had that muffled, constant, highly elevated quality I associate with hail and other severe weather. Only I’d never heard that kind of thunder from more than one area in the sky like that before. Then these layers of turbulent clouds started rolling out to the north. And I don’t remember ever seeing layer upon layer like that before either. It was definitely crazy from a distance so I can’t even imagine what it was like up close! So continued thoughts with those impacted!!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Night #3 without power. At least it's cool and dry at night so fresh cool air blows in the windows. The Sat estimate for restoration has been changed to Fri. Sounds like many areas around including much of the QC is already back in power so I'm hoping when I get home from work tomorrow it's back. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduewx80 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Initial estimates of crop damage alone are $3.4 billion. Who'd have thought an August derecho would be on 2020's list of billion dollar disasters? 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Got windy in Green County, WI but nothing like what was seen in Iowa/parts of N. IL. I rode out the storm west of Monticello (the first tornado warning was headed right for me when it went out, but rotation dissipated before it got to me). These are from near Monroe. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 It seems these high-end derechos are quite difficult to forecast ahead of time. The truly remarkable ones like this often come out of nowhere. Yet when it seems conditions will be very supportive of one, with several days of high outlook probabilities and apocalyptic wording (sometimes culminating in a 60% hatched high risk for wind), the resulting event seldom if ever seems to live up to the potential. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 LOT added 3 more tornadoes so far today. 1 in DeKalb county, 1 in Kane and 1 in Newton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 17 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Night #3 without power. At least it's cool and dry at night so fresh cool air blows in the windows. The Sat estimate for restoration has been changed to Fri. Sounds like many areas around including much of the QC is already back in power so I'm hoping when I get home from work tomorrow it's back. jinx 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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