6/27/09 REPORTS: KS/OK/TX/MO/IL/IA

[Michael O'Keeffe]

I was able to intercept a decent little supercell 10 miles from home today and also got into some quarter sized hail and 60-70MPH winds which was a bonus for sure! I have a few pics on my blog.

http://michaelokeeffe.blogspot.com/2009/06/surprise-part-ii.html

 

[Joel Wright]

Wisely decided to sit this one out and just watched it come in from my back porch. As many expected, things went linear almost immediately after initiation. Storms quickly lined up in far eastern Iowa and ripped on into northwest Illinois. They hit me around 6pm with 40-50mph winds and very heavy rain. Was a bit surprised winds weren't higher given the way it looked coming in. Very nice shelf/plow cloud with a bluish-green rain core immediately following that.

The strongest mid-level winds didn't want to leave central Iowa so these storms had mainly marginally severe wind gusts with them. Even with pretty strong instability.

Even though this ended up not being an actual chase, it was pretty interesting to just sit at home and watch it roll in on a hot and humid afternoon.

 

[Jeremy Ludin]

Damn glad I didn't chase today. Instead of getting in position to chase a squall line, I took a two hour nap instead. As Joel said, storms quickly went linear after initiation and all I could hope for was a decent picturesque shelf, but I really didn't even get that. I caught a brief spin-up after the initial plow moved in overhead, but that was about it. I'm sure it was nothing.

 

[Joe beier]

I didn't go too far from home ... didn't have anything else to do anyways

got the lightning looking out from my garage ... nice little light show

 

[Jeremy Jones]

I didn't do much chasing really. I did however head North from Edmond, to Tonkawa, Oklahoma and caught one of the best CG Lightning Shows that I have ever seen! I shot from about 10:45 pm until 1:30am. I bagged somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 strikes, with out getting a single drop of rain on me.....I couldn't have asked for an easier time shooting lightning!!

 

[Jeff Hawkins]

In Chicago all day long the weather media was really "working it" and making it sound like there was gonna be something along the lines of a derecho event. By the time the line rolled in around 9pm, it was pretty much the opposite. all that was left was rain and some lightning. I was inside the whole time with friends. Looks like IA and NW IL got the best of the show. I've learned to pretty much take whatever the media say when it comes to this kind of stuff and slice it at least by half. Glad for those that were able to get some good stuff yesterday.

 

[Jim Zandonai]

Saw the initial cell go up SW of Galena IL in EC IA..and since it rocketed up to 55kft plus in no time headed for it..by the time I got to Lanark IL in Carroll Co..it was now morphed into the northern end of a Squall line. It did have an excellent shelf cloud..shortly thereafter I got whipped with what I estimated to be 60-65mph winds and reported it to the NWS DVN. For me this was excellent since it was the best structure I had seen all year around here. ! LOL Typically this is what we get around here this time of year and for the next 2 months but I am not complaining..for me I take what I can get in N.IL

Here are some large images from my site.. a couple more are available on my site..on bottom of page.

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZYU4EUGkY...AALM/fnjuSnwO6fU/s1600-h/IMGP0018enh+copy.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZYU4EUGkYpg/Skd9CzLh2jI/AAAAAAAAALk/Ny_lAaB9PQw/s1600-h/IMGP0026+copy.jpg

 

[John Farley]

I tried to get some lightning pics across Dunlap Lake as the storms approached Edwardsville. The lake was perfectly still, making for a good opportunity to get lightning reflected off the lake. But the storms gave me only in-cloud lightning.

The first one was taken with a zoom lens while the storms were still about 30 miles away. Every once in a while with the brightest flashes you could see a that there was fair amount of mammatus in the anvil overhead. The second one was taken as the leading of several outflow boundaries approached. Soon after that, strong winds made it unsafe to be standing under the big old trees along the lakeshore, and roiled up the water anyway. But the main storm did not arrive for another half hour or so after the second pic was taken. Although parts of the Missouri side of the St. Louis area had fairly widespread wind damage, we just got heavy rain and well sub-severe wind gusts in Edwardsville.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Lightning, hail a bit of structure. Not much more to say than that.

Daytime lightning:


Five instantaneous evening strikes in a one second exposure:


This was a few miles down the road in front of that same strange structure feature from above that looked like the nose and head of a paddle fish leading the way.


I almost got a good strike over the sunset. 10mm wide angle was nearly overhead and landed to my far right. One of 3-4 that nearly got me yesterday:

 

[Kurt Hulst]

My NWS (GRR) wrote a strongly worded HWO for this day and we were not even in the slight risk area.
A COLD FRONT MOVING MOVING THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT WILL
BRING SOME THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT ONE OF THE
STORMS NEAR OR WEST OF KALAMAZOO COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO.

There was absolutely no CAPE. There was only backed surface winds and some helicity to work with.
I looked at the 4.0 km WRF-NMM simulated precip model and it was almost spot on with the course of the squall line diving to the south and missing MI all together.

I went out around 12am EDT and caught a single cell coming off of Lake MI and captured two distant bolts. I was suprised to see so many Staccato bolts from this storm, most of which I missed with my camera. I called it a night at 1am as the storm died and went home.

 

[Bill Doms]

MN also

That little impulse that moved in from the Dakotas set off three pretty cells which went rocketing off to the southeast at 50 mph yesterday evening. We missed the first two due to a family function but played intercept on the third one right at sunset. Once we let the cell catch us, a few 50 mph wind gusts made for a fun end of the day.

A couple of more pics can be found here.