5/7/10 NOW: IN/OH/MI

[Adam Atkins]

There's a nice supercell that's been trying to ride the WF for a while now just east of Ft. Wayne, IN. This could be a tornado producer if nothing develops on the southern flank.

 

[rdale]

Seems a little too high-based so far. LFC height is around 4000m (BTW - I'm glad SPC covers the whole US, but it's very difficult to read the maps since they are so far zoomed out)

 

[Andy Wehrle]

Is it me, or has the storm slowed down, trended right, and developed a nasty hook within the last few scans? Still nothing major on velocity (at least nothing that screams "tornado" to me right now) but I wouldn't be surprised if that changes soon.

Edit: SRV 1.5 does indeed look tighter on 2358 scan, 0.5 still shows relatively broad rotation.

 

[rdale]

It's getting into an even worse environment, dew points lower and LFC higher than 4000m. That might be a record setting tornado height

Couple of chasertv.com streamers on it now and it's clearly high-based.

 

[Dave Gore]

From my vantage point, none of these storms had much in the way of structure. I was on the supercell that blew up over Fort Wayne and never once really seen much besides tons, and tons of precip. Did get hit by golf ball size hail, but that was about the extent of things. Many tree limbs and leaves blown all over the roades.

 

[Dave Gore]

Also, they were reporting on a AM station out of Fort Wayne about all of the chasers in the area, including Reed with the Dominator.

 

[rdale]

Stuff still getting TOR'd as it moves into NE Ohio but still not in a good environment.

Surprised by the lack of spotter reports for all the chasers in the area. 0 realtime SN, just Ben's help in the IWX chatroom and his damage reports, along with one stationary spotter with weather instrumentation near Lima.