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My place had it a little different. At 4:00, more bolts than Amelie Arena during a Stanley Cup playoff game.

I have a storm. A lot of flashes in the sky. the rain is coming in

there's about 60 or 70 CG strikes shown

I can see the lightning from the new thunderstorm that is between Lima and Columbus Grove OH from 50 miles away

My place had a nice sunset with some various small puffy altocumulus clouds, some altocumulus castellanus in the distance, and an anvil in the distance. I didn't go jogging tonight because it's too hot. I usually like to go jogging if it is 80 or below close to sunset. Earlier today, the Toledo area to Detroit area had 70-77 dew points after the rains of the morning, but dew points decreased to about 70 with the mixing of the day.

93mph at Marshalltown

How many rotations are tucked into this thing anyway? Near Iowa Falls

possible tornado north of the tornado warning

I spotted a storm

for those who like insane CAPE

I keep forgetting the 00z GFS just doesn't exist at 10:30PM eastern daylight. Oh well, the 3km NAM and HRRR have quite a bit of development in Wisconsin tomorrow.

heavy squall line in Wisconsin, a few brief tornado warnings in the middle of the squall

Toledo area had 0.5 to 3.58", definitely some trees down with perhaps multiple rounds of storms, and there was briefly a flash flood warning. Toledo city got out of the drought by getting enough rain for June and July this month

The thunder and rain keep going here. It's so much what I was thinking would happen in June. It's going to be well over 1" by the time it ends in the morning hours.

some radar grabs

ooh, that might track over to me for some nighttime lightning BTW, HRRR sounding has up to 7400 J/kg of CAPE in Nebraska right now

I saw a red sun tonight due to the forest fire smoke. There were just a few clouds in the way, about 20-30 min before sunset. A few clouds that looked pretty nice and pink. First quarter moon. Pretty hot for nighttime, but I guess it could be worse.

by the way, temp: 108 dew point: 60 with some wind at Manhattan Kansas right now

The 18z HRRR shows the overnight MCS system in Wisconsin that quickly advances to being a bow echo in mid-Michigan. Basically it says the rain misses OH/IN. It says the big stuff goes from the west side of Saginaw County to about the east side of Tuscola County in just 1 hour.

The AQI is now 100-150 and also the 150-200 in Mich/Indiana/Chicago

I think there's kind of a consensus that looks like the last severe squall line on 7/20, such that several storms develop in Michigan and then go east into Ontario, and more south from there. The WRF-NSSL has a lot more development, breaking the cap, I suppose, into Ohio and Indiana. That's the thing. The 12km NAM predicts a capping inversion of 1 degree C in Indiana, which could be a reason that not a lot gets going. But that's the reason that SPC highlights a blob-shaped area every single day. Because convective development is not that easy to figure out.

Hi-res reflectivity from 2004? crazy. The enhanced outlook was a little bit of a surprise for me, but I did see the higher winds at 850-500mb in yesterdays models. and now, the convection-allowing models show much more on the thunderstorm coverage. I suppose you could say the NADOcast is just taking into account the higher low level 850mb winds and wind shear values, which is something that increases tornado potential.

hey, large 1.75" hail in Canada

ConvectiveChronicles did a 17min video on the surprise NC tornado