August 9-12, 2021 Severe Threats

[Jonger]

Picked up 6.5 inches of rain since 2pm yesterday.

[WestMichigan]

Had about 45 minutes of almost non-stop lightning last night.  No power so I don't know how much wind/rain, but it came down hard for a while.

[SolidIcewx]

Major outages in Detroit Metro 550k people without power and counting. Storming most of the night. Got woken up this morning to another severe storm and a tree branch crashing in my yard.

[Jonger]

19 minutes ago, SolidBow said:

Major outages in Detroit Metro 550k people without power and counting. Storming most of the night. Got woken up this morning to another severe storm and a tree branch crashing in my yard.

My ex-wife lives in the same town I do, I have power and she doesn't. Lol

[A-L-E-K]

 

going big, radar looks problematic too

[A-L-E-K]

this is looking really high end, had this set up over metro chicago it would have been a real deal disaster

[CheeselandSkies]

So tomorrow is now down to a marginal risk? *Checks archives* Yep, that was the day they put a Day 4 area out for on Tuesday. Why do they even bother during summer MCS season?

[A-L-E-K]

 

[A-L-E-K]

[CheeselandSkies]

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

 

[fluoronium]

I can't believe there's no flash flood watch out in central IL for this rain band of death

[Chicago Storm]

6-10” of rain the past several hours in the hardest hit corridor, around Gibson City.




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[StormfanaticInd]

Some serious flooding ongoing no doubt 

[WaryWarren]

Oh no, not Ludlow. First, locusts. Now, Biblical floods.

[A-L-E-K]

1' seems on the table

[Chicago WX]

0130 PM     HEAVY RAIN       GIBSON CITY             40.47N 88.37W
08/12/2021  M8.76 INCH       FORD               IL   PUBLIC

            PRIVATE WEATHER STATION REPORTS 8.76 INCHES
            OF RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT. 8.1 INCHES
            OCCURRED WITH MOST RECENT STORMS WHICH BEGAN
            AT 8:30 AM. MULTIPLE 1 HOUR PERIODS WITH
            OVER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL. LIGHT RAIN
            ONGOING.

[WeatherMonger]

Went outside and about 10 coworkers standing around staring up at the sky, "right there, that's a tornado about to form"

 

looked at radar and it's the outflow/gust front moving through, did have some cool cloud movement with it. 

 

100% guaranteed to rain/storm here as it is the opening night of the State Fair.

[WeatherMonger]

Didn't have much wind on my side of the plant, but had a power flash and the east end of the plant is out.

 

Coworker got a call from his wife, had a pine tree fall on his trailer, caved in the kitchen so apparently had some wind with it, he's on same side of town as me but a bit further North. Fairgrounds probably took some wind, never fails during the fair.

[Calderon]

Well, that was a nice, intense group of storms here in southern St. Louis. Max gusts 70-75mph and the roar that preceded it for a good 2 minutes was fantastic. It's been a bit since I've had that much wind and near constant sound of trees snapping.