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Tornado Warning
MIC037-057-071745-
/O.NEW.KGRR.TO.W.0011.210707T1718Z-210707T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI
118 PM EDT Wed Jul 7 2021

The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Southeastern Gratiot County in central Michigan...
  Northeastern Clinton County in south central Michigan...

* Until 145 PM EDT.

* At 118 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
  was located near Elsie, or 6 miles northeast of St. Johns, moving
  east at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...Tornado and golf ball size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

  IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
           shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
           Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur.  Tree
           damage is likely.

* This dangerous storm will be near...
  Elsie around 130 PM EDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.

&&

LAT...LON 4299 8458 4317 8458 4319 8437 4296 8437
TIME...MOT...LOC 1718Z 271DEG 16KT 4308 8449

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

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32 minutes ago, luckyweather said:

I believe the president is in mchenry county right now, sitting US prez in vicinity of tor warned storm motion

I believe Gerald Ford's motorcade was in the O'Hare area around the time that a tornado passed by on 3/12/1976.

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President Reagan traveled to Fort Wayne to view the massive flooding that was occurring on March 16, 1982. A tornado touched down about 10 miles from Baer Field (now Ft Wayne International)10 minutes before Air Force One landed.

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Seems like all of our tor warnings in this region (MKX/LOT/eastern DVN/southern ARX CWAs) these days happen at random on marginal/no-risk days, and either are never confirmed or are landspouts/cold-air funnels. I mean, I don't expect sig tors to be exactly common but a few legit EF1-2s per year would be, I dunno...(used to be) normal?

In retrospect, 2015-16 were really busy in northern IL with Rochelle, the two June 22nds and 3/15/16.

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On 7/9/2021 at 10:56 PM, CheeselandSkies said:
Looks like main MCS/possible derecho is gonna track east and south of the ENH area.

*Although, there is another one to the west in NE.


OMA had a peak gust of 96mph with the derecho last night, which is the highest report I’ve seen. 84mph in Grand Island was the second highest.

Then that smaller MCS that came into W. NE had a peak of 88mph at Alliance.


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New Day 3...

 

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Of particular note, in association with the trailing perturbation,
is a consistent continuing signal in the various model output of a
deepening lower/mid tropospheric low emerging from the central South
Dakota Missouri Valley vicinity early in the day, before migrating
east-northeastward into the Upper Midwest/upper Great Lakes region
by late Wednesday night.  This appears likely to be the result of
convective enhancement, if not a completely convectively generated
perturbation, and is forecast to be accompanied by intensifying wind
fields in excess of 50 kt in the 850-700 mb layer.

 ...Mid Missouri Valley into Upper Great Lakes region...
Models suggest that the convectively generated or enhanced
perturbation will emerge near the nose of a remnant plume of
elevated mixed-layer air, which may be contributing to modestly
steep lapse rates at least initially.  It is not clear how far
east-northeast this plume will advect through the day, before being
cut off by increasing thunderstorm development, and daytime heating
ahead of the convection is not expected to yield particularly steep
low-level lapse rates due to a relatively deep moist boundary layer.
This could mitigate the magnitude of the damaging wind potential.

However, the seasonably moist boundary-layer air may still
contribute to sizable CAPE in excess of 2000 J/kg.  Coupled with a
strengthening and expanding cold pool, along with the strengthening
wind fields, there still appears potential for the evolution of a
large and sustained, organized and forward (northeastward/eastward)
propagating convective system.  This could be accompanied by swaths
of damaging wind gusts, and the environment may become conditionally
conducive to a number of embedded mesovortices along the gust front,
accompanied by the risk for tornadoes.  If current trends in model
output persist, and lingering uncertainties clear, severe weather
probabilities will need to be increased in later outlooks for this
period.

 

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Unexpected...

 

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WWUS53 KLOT 121948
SVSLOT

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville
248 PM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

ILC075-122015-
/O.CON.KLOT.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-210712T2015Z/
Iroquois IL-
248 PM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL IROQUOIS COUNTY...
    
At 248 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Ashkum, moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Tornado.

SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
         shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
         to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur.  Tree damage is
         likely.

This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
north central Iroquois County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.

&&

LAT...LON 4085 8798 4089 8799 4094 8785 4085 8785
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 235DEG 12KT 4088 8795

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

Kluber

 

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Typical; we go from a miss south to a miss north. Could be interesting for someone:

EDIT: HRRR is actually more intriguing with southern WI :twister:potential than the 3K NAM. Both suggest northeastern Iowa could be in play.

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 ...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY
   AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN
   MINNESOTA AND NORTHEASTERN IOWA THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

   ...SUMMARY...
   One or two organized clusters of thunderstorms may evolve across the
   middle Missouri Valley Wednesday and spread east-northeastward
   through the Upper Midwest by Wednesday night, accompanied by swaths
   of damaging wind gusts and the risk for tornadoes.

   ...Synopsis...
   The more prominent mid-level ridging likely will become confined to
   the southern mid- and subtropical latitudes by early Wednesday, with
   a couple of belts of westerlies in the northern mid-latitudes
   remaining generally zonal and progressive, particularly to the east
   of the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Great Plains.  East of
   the Rockies, the most significant short wave trough is forecast to
   migrate across southern Hudson Bay and adjacent northwestern Ontario
   into northwestern Quebec during this period.  As it does, weaker
   troughing to its south-southeast is forecast to shift east of the
   lower Great Lakes/upper Ohio Valley through the northern Atlantic
   Seaboard.  Weaker troughing to its south-southwest is forecast to
   continue east of the northern Rockies, into the Upper Midwest by
   late Wednesday night.

   Of particular concern, in association with the trailing southern
   perturbation, the various model output continues to indicate the
   evolution of a deepening lower/mid tropospheric mesoscale low with
   convective development emerging from the middle Missouri Valley. 
   This is generally forecast to migrate east-northeastward across the
   Upper Midwest/upper Great Lakes region by late Wednesday night,
   accompanied by intensifying southwesterly to westerly wind fields,
   in excess of 50 kt in the 850-500 mb layer.

   ...Mid Missouri Valley into Upper Midwest/Great Lakes region...
   Within the latest model output, spread remains evident concerning
   potential convective evolution for this period.  This is one obvious
   point of lingering uncertainty.  Additionally, it still appears that
   lower/mid tropospheric lapse rates may not become particularly
   steep, and this could potentially limit the magnitude of the
   damaging wind potential.

   However, models continue to indicate that the boundary layer will
   become seasonably moist, with surface dew points increasing into the
   lower 70s F.  It appears that this may still contribute to sizable
   CAPE in excess of 2000 J/kg.

   The latest NAM, in particular, suggests that an evolving cluster of
   storms may be ongoing or develop early in the period, near or
   northeast of the Sioux Falls/Sioux City area.  This would likely be
   in response to forcing for ascent associated with low/mid-level warm
   advection, downstream of the short wave trough digging
   east-southeast of the northern Rockies, near the nose of a remnant
   plume of elevated mixed-layer air.  It appears that this activity
   will develop eastward during the day, with a trailing outflow
   boundary near the Minnesota/Iowa border area becoming the focus for
   the primary evolving convective cluster.  Supported by forcing for
   ascent associated with the mid-level trough as it begins to pivot
   toward the upper Mississippi Valley, this may include supercells
   initially, before activity grows upscale.

   This is consistent with the 12Z ECMWF depiction of more rapid MCV
   intensification by late afternoon across southeastern Minnesota,
   before turning northeastward toward the Upper Great Lakes region
   through late Wednesday night.  Given the forecast strengthening of
   the lower/mid tropospheric wind fields, the associated evolving
   convective system seems likely to be accompanied by increasing
   potential for swaths of damaging wind gusts across southeast
   Minnesota and northeast Iowa through much of the central Wisconsin
   by late Wednesday evening.  It appears that this could continue into
   and across parts of upper and northern lower Michigan overnight.

   Given the boundary-layer moistening expected to precede the
   convective system, enlarging low-level hodographs may also become
   conducive to the genesis of a number of strengthening mesovortices
   along the gust front, accompanied by the potential for tornadoes.

 

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8 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Typical; we go from a miss south to a miss north. Could be interesting for someone:

EDIT: HRRR is actually more intriguing with southern WI :twister:potential than the 3K NAM. Both suggest northeastern Iowa could be in play.

 

I'm starting to get hyped too, buddy.

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43 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

Skip job 

Eh, what happens here is conditional on the AM MCS and whether things recover over IA/MN. If those areas don’t recover, we are likely to be in the enhanced risk for winds tomorrow night, along with a pretty sig risk for flash flooding given the lingering boundaries that may be nearby. 

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SPC still clueless.

No mention at all of the large/loose MCS that will originate in the Plains tonight, making it through MN/IA/WI the first half of the day. Instead all we get is this...

Thunderstorm development is expected to take place along the front during the morning to the north and northeast of the surface low, from northeastern Nebraska into northwest Iowa. These storms should be elevated initially and are forecast to move east-northeastward across the Upper Mississippi Valley during the afternoon. A surface-based convective cluster is expected to develop out of this activity.

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