"Training rains..?"

[Josephine96]

I have a question about this apparent weather condition lol..

Our local Fox Met keeps saying we may get something called "training rains" where 1 cell after another keeps coming through the same locale..

I also heard him talk about this when we had our tornado outbreak the day after Frances..

I know I probably just answered my own question lol.. But do or can these "rains" produce severe weather..?

[PurdueWx80]

Training is just when a linear formation of thunderstorms moves parellel to the length of the line. Some locations can get tremendous amounts of rains, while areas on either side of the line may see little to no precipitation. Severe weather has nothing to do with it. Lines of thunderstorms may or may not be severe depending on any number of things. In the case of Ivan, there will likely be training t-storms over much of FL and pretty much anywhere east of Ivan's center. Severe weather is obviously quite possible (and likely) to the east as well (tornadoes).

[Portastorm]

They're more apt to produce severe weather in the form of flash flooding and river flooding. Basically, they are convective episodes where storms carrying a lot of water roll over the same area in a given time period.

[Josephine96]

Thank you..

[BayouVenteux]

Just to elaborate on Purdue's post, if Ivan moves onshore slowly, the storm's spiral rainbands will pass over the same areas for extended periods. A good example is Hurricane Georges in '98, which dumped massive amounts of flooding rain from Pascagoula eastward as it slowed to a crawl and ambled at an achingly slow pace before finally moving out.

[debbiet]

This training effect is what caused such catastropic flooding in Richmond, VA during Tropical Storm Gaston...or was it Hurricane Frances...good grief we've had so many I can't keep them all straight! Anyway...Richmond just got socked by a long, long, LINE of incredibly heavy rain that just kept on coming at them all day long...in addition many areas in Central and SE Virginia were hit with numerous F1 Tornadoes.

[Skywatch_NC]

This training effect is what caused such catastropic flooding in Richmond, VA during Tropical Storm Gaston...or was it Hurricane Frances...good grief we've had so many I can't keep them all straight! Anyway...Richmond just got socked by a long, long, LINE of incredibly heavy rain that just kept on coming at them all day long...in addition many areas in Central and SE Virginia were hit with numerous F1 Tornadoes.

It was Gaston

Eric

[Josephine96]

Frances gave us our training effect lol