Severe storms Thurs. 6/25 (six months to Christmas!)
June 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
Lots of severe reports from SE Michigan Thursday PM, inc. gusts to 75 mph at Fraser and gusts to 65 plus 1.25″ hail at Lake Orion. Funnel clouds were reported near Macomb and they reported a 68 mph gust at Sandusky, Ohio. It much have been fun being on the roller coasters watching the storm come in a Cedar Point. Cleveland had a gust to 62 mph. They also had a gust to 62 mph at Whitewater, Wisconsin southwest of Milwaukee. Here in the shadow downwind from Lake Michigan, we didn’t get the storms. Here’s the visible satellite loop (daytime), current Michigan weather observations, the latest Grand Rapids NWS discussion, Grand Rapids NWS radar, Great Lakes radar, national radar, lightning loop, storm pictures on POSTED, and current U.S. severe weather watches.
It looks like the hit and miss variety. Getting a little cloudy but storms are looking like they are going north
I hope the house doesn’t get hit by lighting again. Last friday cost me 700$, but it was fun
I am ready for what ever happens. It’s warm and hazy.
THUNDER STORM WATCH TILL 10…………….WHY
Looks like a miss for western michigan. All the storms are developing on the east side of the state. Any ideas why nothing is going on here and out in to Wisconsin? It sure is hot and humid here, seems perfect for storms.
STUFF TRYING TO POP ACROSS LAKE IN MILLWALKIEEEE
i used to live in Detroit and they always get better severe weather than over here.
it will all be east and maybe south of gr, once again this watch was not needed but i guess after the tornado fiasco they have to issue these no matter what.
is this are storm page now?????????????
feels like the cold front if starting to move through GR
not till late saturday, i will admit the temp dropped off though, i may turn the air off now.
Looked like it would make it across the lake an hour ago. I predicted rain here in Whitehall at 3, and then “poof” it just fizzled. I figured if it stayed together across the big pond it surely had to stay oragnized once it made landfall. Anyone know why that happens? Seems to defy conventional wisdom.
ya were cursed, no good storms ever hit here anymore
they used to back in the 1950’s
AT 422 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF GRASS LAKE TO ALBION…MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE…
ALBION… CONCORD… JACKSON…
GRASS LAKE… BROOKLYN…
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL…STRONG WIND
GUSTS…FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING…AND BRIEF DOWNPOURS.
Even those are dying fast.
They moved us out of the watch. seems more appropriate now!
whats the point of even issuing a watch? they knew nothing would happen and it won’t saturday either, maybe they should all go back to school and learn how to even guess a forecast.
For anyone interested in the East Side of the State – predicting backbuilding and training of storms:
SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS…ONGOING STRONG TSTORMS ACROSS SE LOWER
MI ALONG WITH CURRENT SETUP MAY ALLOW FOR TRAINING OR BACKBUILDING CELLS
OVER THE NEXT 1-2 HRS. COLD FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE SRN PART OF THE
STATE APPEARS AS THOUGH IT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDTL CELL DVLPMT AS VIS
IMAGERY IS BEGINNING TO SHOW NEW CU FORMING TO THE W OF THE THE ONGOING
ACTIVITY. STRONG SFC MOISTURE CNVG CONTINUES TO BE PRESENT OVER SRN LOWER
MI WITH PLENTY OF INSTABILITY IN PLACE FROM UPPER TROF AXIS. DWPTS IN LOW
70S AND PW VALUES AROUND 1.8″ ARE PRESENT JUST TO THE S OF THE FRNT WHICH
WILL INCREASE HVY RAIN POTENTIAL ACROSS THE AREA. ESTIMATE RAINRATES OF
1.5-2″/HR POSSIBLE OVER NEXT 1-2 HRS WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER RATES WHERE
CELL MERGERS/TRAINING OCCUR. EXPECT GREATEST THREAT OF HVY RAINS WHERE
SLIGHTLY NWD MOVING LINE ACROSS JACKSON/WASHTENAW/WAYNE COUNTIES MEETS
FORMING CU OVER LIVINGSTON/OAKLAND COUNTIES. PLEASE SEE WEB ADDRESS FOR
GRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN APPROX 10-15 MIN.
thanks for signing the guestbook on my site, sandy
time 2 go fishing?????????
still storms back to the west around chicago…most likely missing us
take a day off ben get ready 4 sat night!!!
ur right…if i don’t, the dissapointment will never end
Just off a different subject that Farrah Faucet has died at 62, and now michael jackson just died of cardiac arrest. Sorry for no big storms today but saturday looks pretty interesting as a very strong cold front slams through the state dropping temps. almost 20 degrees.
and ed mcmahon died yesterday
Hopefully thats the 3 they always die in 3’s. Its all crazy. Glad we missed out on the storms today. It never looked promising anyway. Have a cookout saturday night so hopefully the rain will not happen until very late!!
Oh shoot, I wanted more thunderstorms!
Oh well. Maybe later on.
Real nice storm tops in the sunset last nite to the south. Orange and pink color. I thought they mite have been just south of K-Zoo,but looking at radar they were south of SouthBend,In. They showd 50K tops. Quite impresive. Anyone else see them? 69.7° here now and i like it. My fam in Pratt,KS has had 97° or so the last 5 days.
Excellent storms yesterday. I saw it hail three different times with three different storms… in one day! How unusual is that in Michigan??
i grew up in macomb county and i think ill be moving back over there in September! to heck with this cold weather & lake effect snow crap!