Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:21 pm
Story of the day: air mass failed to recover. Yesterday's derecho was so strong it couldn't get anything going today. Isolated to scattered supercells have formed though in VA.
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Byronthree wrote:Crazy.. I've been following your posts since the derecho hit here in Fairfax, VA yesterday. Never knew one could make it past the mountains. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that we do have some storms now but they are isolated. The temperature had cooled down a bit today.. Mid-90s so not expecting anything wild. I wonder though, if the heat wave continues if another bow echo could form into something as powerful as what we had yesterday, crossing the apps again. Guess we will see..
CrazyC83 wrote:Byronthree wrote:Crazy.. I've been following your posts since the derecho hit here in Fairfax, VA yesterday. Never knew one could make it past the mountains. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that we do have some storms now but they are isolated. The temperature had cooled down a bit today.. Mid-90s so not expecting anything wild. I wonder though, if the heat wave continues if another bow echo could form into something as powerful as what we had yesterday, crossing the apps again. Guess we will see..
Not as strong tonight - too little instability, yesterday had CAPE values up to 6,000. Tomorrow maybe, but probably farther south I would think - the Carolinas especially. But it is WAY too early to tell.
The derecho tried to weaken in the mountains, but it seemed to reintensify as it crossed back. Others, such as July 15, 1995 (that one hit me HARD when I was 11 years old - I was camping in it and probably saved many lives by being the only one to awaken for the early warning; I will never go camping again after that one, it still scares me 17 years later) and July 4-5, 1999 (a near-miss for me) also crossed mountains.
temujin wrote:West Virginia got totally jacked up by this storm. Saturday morning 85% of the population was without power and over half still don't have it. There are entire counties without electricity in any part. The few gas stations that are open are sold out of gas. Ice companies are completely sold out. People are driving 70 miles to find food.
I guess we're too small to make the news.
EF-5bigj wrote:So these storms are more or less long lived violent streight lined wind based supercell's. I gotta say for not being a tornado they certainly cause mayhem similer to one.
temujin wrote:West Virginia got totally jacked up by this storm. Saturday morning 85% of the population was without power and over half still don't have it. There are entire counties without electricity in any part. The few gas stations that are open are sold out of gas. Ice companies are completely sold out. People are driving 70 miles to find food.
I guess we're too small to make the news.
Zanthe wrote:So...does the current bow echo/possible deracho in MN belong in this thread? Winds in excess of 80 MPH and civil emergency messages issued.