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  1. Seems there are two "cores" or local maxes in reflectivity. One is down W of Kensington area and the other is that new warning. The new warning is the dominant one it seems.
  2. MCFRS PIO is tweeting several storm reports of trees down in the Potomac area.
  3. TDCA still has a good hail indicator on it, though. CIMMS probsevere product has 57% for wind and 20% for hail.
  4. VIL numbers are weakening from the LWX radar on this storm.
  5. Yes. THere are strikes being shown between Montgomery Village and Brookeville.
  6. Doing a rough summation of the lightning indicators from AllisonHouse yields really high numbers. This weekend in particular...likely to be tons of people outdoors. Hope they are heeding the warnings.
  7. TDCA showing 52kft tops now. Nearly continuous rumbles of thunder being heard here now. The little "arms" of the storm are into Glenmont now. Should be raining here momentarily. We'll see if it maintains or starts to collapse. Decent amount of juice to work with based on the earlier SPC meso maps.
  8. PWS lightning detector keeps going up, up, up. 62 69 strikes associated with this storm already - and it's definitely missed some I'm sure.
  9. TDWRs are showing echo tops already nearing 50kft now with that cell.
  10. Warned. Really impressive cell thus far. Already seeing some outflow on it - hoping it doesn't just collapse. Warning has a decent trajectory for MBY
  11. Is that a potential downburst signature on that cell now? Looks like all the TDWRs and the LWX radar are seeing winds moving away from each other.
  12. Pretty quick uptick in lightning on that MoCo/Fairfax/Potomac cell. That may have some legs to it, actually!
  13. Little shower developing along the Potomac near Great Falls. Probably will be just enough to stabilize me as it passes over
  14. Everything kind of congealed into that one big complex. It's been tough to get them to propagate to the south at all so far. Lots of easterly movement in the storm motions. Looks like outflow from earlier has moved all the way to Damascus, Clarksburg, Comus, back to Point of Rocks. Another boundary looks like it's in extreme northern Loudoun County.
  15. Outflow visible in the Brunswick area and then arcing back towards the MoCo/Frederick County line. See if this boundary can trigger some activity closer to the actual city.
  16. Everything north for the time being. Radar very, very quiet locally.
  17. The long cell in the area (between Hagerstown and Martinsburg) appears to be right along the surface trough that WPC analyzed out that way in the last update. Runs tilting NE to SW to the west of the more populated areas.
  18. Radar pretty weak sauce so far. But some of the CAMs liked more around the 0z timeframe.
  19. FFG is like 1.5-2" for 1 hour in DC proper. A good complex of storms could do that I guess. Elsewhere is 2-3 inches.
  20. 14z HRRR predicts initiation in the higher elevations/Blue Ridge area around 3pm with a cluster then growing upscale in NoVA and Central Maryland in the hours following. The lines/cluster pushes east of the bay on that model by 0z. Simulated echo tops get to around 40-50kft as well. Not too bad on that run!
  21. Fairly respectable CAPE values across the area already. 1000+ for the metro corridor on MLCAPE and 2500+ SBCAPE. As forecast, we are on the southern fringe of a belt of shear. Mid-level lapse rates are not good, but low level lapse rates are steepening. DCAPE is lacking in the immediate metro corridor, better values in extreme southern Maryland and SEVA. We'll see if that expands with further heating. Theta-e is on the increase as well.
  22. CAMs look decent for some of us this afternoon. Seems it will be a garden variety severe day - a scattering of reports possible but nothing history-making.
  23. Seems a few good storms could be in the offing for this afternoon. Better chance tomorrow. Summer doldrums otherwise!
  24. Post that in the severe thread and bring home an MCS!
  25. Little shower in SW Loudoun County.
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