Severe Weather Sunday
April 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
<–Click on the maps for full screen and the discussions. There is a rare High Risk Area for Severe Storms this PM in the southern Plains. The Slight Risk for today come east to Lake Michigan. Eleven tornadoes so far…including several in NE Iowa. Check out the tornado in Roll, OK., Kansas hail and damage, tornado near Udall, KS, and near Lawrence, KS (one fatality). We are in the “See Text” area for Monday PM. Sunday PM it looks like showers/chc. t-shower with the severe stuff staying west of Lake Michigan. Monday PM it’ll depend a little on how warm we can get. Here’s current watches (Wi to TX inc. a PDS watch for OK), any meso-discussions, severe reports today (nickel-sized hail just west of Chicago at Elgin), radar from Oklahoma City, Wichita, Here you can find a slide show (on the right side) of hail/tornadoes in Oklahoma. More later, I’m still looking at data.
You couldn’t pay me to live anywhere near that area (high risk area)! And I’m pretty sure that most of the homes there do not have basements? We are lucky to be here in West Michigan and have the lake to help reduce the blunt of the storms (most of the time).
Don’t you mean “brunt” — not “blunt” — of the storms?
I would love to be chasing today, out in Kansas and Oklahome
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Did not spell Oklahoma correctly, lol
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Anytime I worked state fairs down toward Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas. It wasn’t hard to find a vendor pushing prefab storm shelters. Some of the big tornadoes they get down there, even a basement isn’t effective. So a lot of people get these storm bunkers that a contractor will come out and bury in your yard. Some of them were upwards of $15,000 installed, maybe higher.
Interesting to see a High Risk outlook again, usually trouble is on the horizon. Seeing 2 tornado watches that include PDS’s is never a good thing.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0190.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0192.html
LW–if I lived down in Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas I’d spend the 15k on the shelter. I’m worth it! lol
wishing I was down there in a chase vehicle
meanwhile, trying to clear here, maybe some destablizing? were up to 62.2*
http://adds.aviationweather.gov/satellite/displaySat.php?region=DTW&isingle=single&itype=vis
Turned on DTV channel 8.3 (8’s live radar) this afternoon and saw a storm on a radar from Amarillo TX heading right for that high risk area. This was after the rain moved north of here, so I guess the Storm Team 8 crew wanted to check out the real action!
sounds like we have more seevere weather possible monday afternoon?
Bill do you think we will have severe weather tommorow???
Back up to 82 and quite muggy here…..
We have good EHI values and midlevel lapse rates, decent cape and helicity….its so close all we need is a trigger…
I have no idea what that means, but a trigger would be fun! LOL. I love spring storms. And summer storms……
looks like somethings trying to develop just off the coast of Saugatuck?
This looks like a big time experiment
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090406_tornado.html
even more info
http://www.vortex2.org/
Gosh, I really hope we get some severe weather. I was camping with scouts all weekend and I pulled out my phone every now and then to check what was coming, especially after we got that Severe T-Storm Watch. Nothing came though, and I was disappointed.
I keep flashing back and forth to spc, weather underground, and this blog…I am so excited….
are we going to get anything else tonight?
It keeps raining hard here. I am going to build a boat to go home in at 11!!
does anyone think maybe one of those lines are going to become a derecho?
Kyle seems to think we will only get “garden variety storm to strong lightening storms” tomorrow
what the heck are garden variety storms?
still a good lookin line of storms out there