STORM2K

As a lack of anything else related to Utah, or the west in general, I've decided to mention that we had 3 thunderstorms in ONE DAY here. Well, I'm not sure how often it happens in, say, the Midwest, or the East, but I can sure say that I've never seen it before. First, around 1pm, a moderately powerful thunderstorm, then about 5pm or so, a violent storm with violently gusty winds, flooding streets, and constant lightning, then again at about 3am, when we had another minor thunderstorm move through. Damn yesterday was an awesome day. Unfortunately, I wasn't at my house at all yesterday, so I wasn't able to track it at all (except for "hey look, there's dark clouds over there...."). I can guess that we probably had numerous severe thunderstorm warnings. This is for Salt Lake City, Utah. Not only these 3 thunderstorms in one day, but the day before, at about 8pm, with some of the hardest rain I've ever seen, very gusty winds, and fairly frequent lightning, and I can say that the streets were definitely flooded. So, basically, we had 4 moderate to severe thunderstorms in a 29 hour timespan. Has anything like this ever happened to anybody? How common is this, even? I've never actually lived anywhere where they actually get a lot of thunderstorms, so I wouldn't really know...

Very rare to have that happen in Toronto, I'm sure it has happened, but not often.
It would definitely be newsowrthy if it happened.


-justin-

I've seen four thunderstorms occur here during the monsoon in 12 hours. In fact, it's a very common occurrence to see 3-5 boomers here in 24 hours or less all of varying degrees of intensity. Our mountains are not called the Huachucas (for Place of Thunder) for nothing. What kicked off the activity in UT was a series of MCV's that rode up the moisture plume rotating around the upper High-the PVA associated with them providing the trigger for the activity. The MCV's originated in Arizona from the complexes that caused the severe weather and Haboobs down here.

Steve

back on Labor Day weekend last year we had thunderstorms for nearly 24 hours nonstop.

In Mississippi isn't not uncommon to see 3 or 4 thunderstorms in a day or two.
In early May we had 4 squall lines.. one at 3 PM, one at 4 AM, one at 9 AM, and one at 1 PM.

all_we_know_is_FALLING wrote:In Mississippi isn't not uncommon to see 3 or 4 thunderstorms in a day or two.
In early May we had 4 squall lines.. one at 3 PM, one at 4 AM, one at 9 AM, and one at 1 PM.

Wow...and I'm sure that those thunderstorms are much more powerful than the ones we have here.

Not necessarily-when I was in UT I saw storms there that would be noteworthy anywhere else in the US and one that hit Dugway had gusts over 100mph. The storm reports in recent days showed wind gusts as high as 76 mph in UT which is a fairly healthy T-storm wind for any place.

Steve

bob rulz wrote:

all_we_know_is_FALLING wrote:In Mississippi isn't not uncommon to see 3 or 4 thunderstorms in a day or two.
In early May we had 4 squall lines.. one at 3 PM, one at 4 AM, one at 9 AM, and one at 1 PM.

Wow...and I'm sure that those thunderstorms are much more powerful than the ones we have here.

Not particularly, at least where I was. Each line brought about an inch of rain each (which was the big story) and winds of 40 mph. In my town there was just a few flooded streets and a limb or two down. Although, those storms did produce quite a bit of damage.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060509_rpts.html - Day 1
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060510_rpts.html - Day 2

EDIT: I live in Mississippi, BTW.

Aslkahuna wrote:Not necessarily-when I was in UT I saw storms there that would be noteworthy anywhere else in the US and one that hit Dugway had gusts over 100mph. The storm reports in recent days showed wind gusts as high as 76 mph in UT which is a fairly healthy T-storm wind for any place.

Steve

Really? Well, they're rarer here, from what I've heard. Maybe the lightning is impressive, but the rain is nowhere near the level it is out east.