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Nice little cell developed over us. Dumping rain right now. Incredible light show outside. Tons of thunder.
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Rainoved into my area finally. Had what sounds like very small hail hitting window ac unit.
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A little concerned that I only saw two fireflies in my backyard tonight. Hopefully they’re just early.
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Squall line came through about 2100L for 0.15" Hi today 90f, very humid DP reached 80.
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That's right on top of @IWXwx
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0.35" from that storm. Not bad. Obviously doesn't put a dent in the drought, but enough to give the vegetable garden a much-needed watering. For a change I won't have to water tomorrow.
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Little tornado near Bristol Indiana. CC drop.
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2026 Mid-Atlantic Severe Storm General Discussion
SnowenOutThere replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
Thanks to everyone for responding! Adding to this discussion with the echo tops and visible sat estimated from the KIAD radar. Seems to support the general idea of a low topped environment. Can see that one cell southwest of DC trying to reach upward, but the real visible edge of the storms as the low level outflow induced shelf clouds. What an interesting storm system; had low topped storms in a high CAPE environment and despite that had significant wind with it. Always interests me why a certain storm is a particular way. Also helped show me CAPE isn't everything I thought it is.
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Nice tornado approaching Ft Wayne
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2026 Mid-Atlantic Severe Storm General Discussion
George BM replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
That combined w/ that warmer ~400mb layer preventing the updrafts from really getting up towards the EL would be my non-redtag hypothesis. -
One thing to notice, dews are surging ahead of the line as the LLJ kicks in. Up to 72° in Ft Wayne right now. Going to be a dicey night for sure
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We are. That storm to the north really blew up and developed a nice southern component. The lightening has been non-stop and we're past 0.6" of rain according to two nearby gauges on weather underground. Lots of rolling thunder now. Our dog is having a rough go of it.
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Yeah getting a heavy downpour now with a good amount of lightning and gusty winds. I wasn't optimistic earlier so I'm very pleased to be getting something.
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Crashing thunder and vivid lightning display off to my north now. Just very light rain here now. The downpour lasted 90 seconds. Small storm fizzled as it past just south of me.
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Newton / Sparta area look to be getting a good whack.
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Seeing a lot of lightning on the security cams
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I am forced to eat my previous post. It is ripping up here, 60 lightening strikes in the past few minutes according to accuweather. Torrential rain, and wind too. Really blew up again for some. My rain gauge is out of commission, but underground stations around me are showing over 1/2 inch and counting. It looks like upwards of 1.5" out towards Sandyston where they also got the first batch earlier.
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Same here. Getting CLIPPED by small fast moving storm just to my south. Brief heavy rain but moving through fast. Lots of lightning to my north and south with rolling thunder.
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2026 Mid-Atlantic Severe Storm General Discussion
high risk replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
I think you're on the right track here, but the mid-level flow was better than modeled. I suspect that the paltry winds at the upper levels limited the strength of the updraft.- 576 replies
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small line is cranking
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When the line over Lake Michigan catches up to the stuff out ahead, there should be a big general wind bag event. My prediction.
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Heavy rain, wind, and constant flashes here. Oddly though, not a lot of thunder.
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Stacked bow's from SWMI down through Central IN. Kinks in all of them.
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Cass County has a tornado warning now. Somewhat of an embedded HP supercell in the line.
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I was watching the lightning from that cell in the northwest sky. I see a few little downpours to the west in Somerset County -- hoping to get one here in a little while.
