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Many areas around DFW got around 2" of rain, but some storm cells must have sat over Dallas for a long time.

One Arizona wildfire has grown to 151,000 acres at the same time a COVID-19 troubles.

I was looking at the radar for a thunderstorm in Amarillo, and then I came upon something I hadn't thought about for a long time. Coming from the north, US-87/287 splits into two streets southbound, two streets northbound. It then combines into a single street that is US-87. Then US-87/I-27 goes to the south of town, but US-287 goes east, after combining with I-40 at the large interchange. US-287 then splits away from I-40.

Sunset last night was a little red, possibly due to forest fires in Arizona.

Picture of the derecho on June 6

A couple of days ago, I was going to post about how hot it is going to be. Today, I found some GEFS runs that show a cool and wet period coming up. So maybe this could be a nice (short) period of drought relief for CO/KS, possibly NM and WY. The way things are going, it is going to take many months to get out of the drought in southern Colorado.

By the way, it snowed yesterday, north of Lake Superior

This happened a few hours ago at Sandusky, OH. It must have been something like a 100mph wind to break through bricks. source: https://www.wkyc.com/article/weather/severe-weather/look-storms-severely-damage-sandusky-state-theater/95-6e570ecd-3488-4c91-9aa0-af4fe5c48682

Possible tornado in Ohio, about 25 miles northeast of Ashland, Kentucky. (Ohio River valley.)

1" hail reported somewhere near downtown Detroit.

This cell produced 2" hail at Bryan, OH. That's gotta shred some soybeans.

It kind of looks like a supercell is developing near Defiance, OH. Weak rotation at this time.

My parents texted me and said it was 97 degrees in Toledo. Maximum temperatures (Mesowest plot)

Nearly all convection-allowing models produce helicity tracks through MI, IN, and OH tomorrow. 0-6km shear should be 40kt- 50kt throughout the region of the cold front.

Some of the storms/ supercells looked pretty good today in the Plains severe weather threat. The storms seemed to fire up right next to each other and merge somewhat. I don't think the enhanced risk verified for hail. There were only 2 tornadoes in Nebraska, which may have effectively verified a small-area enhanced tornado risk.

To me, today was sort of an unexpected tornado risk. I never thought the parameters would be this high, and the 500mb pattern is pretty strange, too. We've got a couple of severe-warned storms near the front in Nebraska.

My area had wind gusts and quickly dropping temperatures after the cold front. Then, at about 9:45PM, the temperature had fallen to about 45 degrees, and a hailstorm came in with 0.25" hail, wind gusts of 40 mph, and lightning. Then, I think we just had some rain with maybe some lightning, with continued wind gusts over 30mph. there was snow in Laramie and also in most areas of the mountains.

I saw that this had been retweeted by Reed Timmer (map is from the SPC)

Interesting pic/video here. My place had about 45mph wind gusts and 3-5 minutes of heavy rain, and several rumbles of thunder. It was pretty exciting. Most of the time I don't see strong wind with thunderstorms around here. Wind gusts were up to 58mph at Fort Collins-Loveland airport. This was an extremely unusual wind event/derecho for the high plains, as most other derechos/ wind events start farther east.

There was a tornado about 4 miles east of Orlando ( 7:30PM eastern)

Some low-rainfall severe storms over the mountains and plains. Edit: some severe storm damage from wind in the Denver area. Edit: DIA had a gust to 78mph with blowing dust and a thunderstorm.

I think this is my first severe storm watch of the year

I'm not really sure if the parameters will line up this well. As far as forecast soundings are concerned, I haven't seen a forecast SCP above 70 something, other than last night's 00z NAM run. I have heard that storm chasers are concerned about getting stopped at the borders of Native American reservations, due to COVID-19. The models seem to have a lot more in the multicell (squall line) modes developing tomorrow night, despite awesome supercell parameters.

10 years ago --- 6/5/10 - My old hometown of Perrysburg was nearly hit by a deadly tornado after 11:00PM. The tornado hit near State Route 795 in Lake Township, hit Lake High School and near Metcalf Airport, also known as Toledo Executive Airport, and continued on to do up to EF4 damage to structures in Millbury, directly east of I-280 and State Route 795. Severe weather parameters increased at nighttime due to a warm front, or possibly just strengthening of the low-level jet. My dad took pictures of train cars that had been flipped near Toledo Executive Airport. NWS Cleveland web page for this: https://www.weather.gov/cle/event_20100605_MillburyTornado old data applied to new GRLevel3 program

This storm was between Buffalo, SD and Faith SD, with a brief 80 dBz