CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I love playing with the old archived radar files in GR2. Here's the Ellington-Lyme supercell from June 20, 1995 that dropped baseballs in a bunch of places in rural CT. It moved due south on a backdoor front and was really beautiful on radar. The thing was a monster though with 70 dbz to nearly 30kft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I remember that just from watching the news here. I couldn't believe that beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 One sick looking beast with outflow being shown beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 One sick looking beast with outflow being shown beautifully. Yeah the loop is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Can you do the supercell that moved through Litchfield county on 5/31/98...was like 8:30 PM or so if I remember correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Imagine June 9th, 1953... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Imagine June 9th, 1953... Probably would look pretty similar to 6/1/2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 That was the Vernon storm It moved right over my house where I grew uP. I remember early bing it come down from Mass on TWC radar. We had golf balls and a couple tennis balls mixed in. It broke skylights on many houses and dented every car in the area. They issued a Tor in Ellington for that. That was my fave severe storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Can you do the supercell that moved through Litchfield county on 5/31/98...was like 8:30 PM or so if I remember correctly. Working on it. Just pulled up an ENX image from 22z and it's wild. Monster supercell west of Albany in Otsego County and a monster squall line from GC to Socks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 That was the Vernon storm It moved right over my house where I grew uP. I remember early bing it come down from Mass on TWC radar. We had golf balls and a couple tennis balls mixed in. It broke skylights on many houses and dented every car in the area. They issued a Tor in Ellington for that. That was my fave severe storm. Yeah that storm was wild. It actually peaked over Lyme.... but it's so rural down there it didn't do as much damage as places up north around Vernon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Probably would look pretty similar to 6/1/2011 Agreed, it is fortunate the tornado wasn't hitting a whole lot when it maxed out east of Springfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Agreed, it is fortunate the tornado wasn't hitting a whole lot when it maxed out east of Springfield. Yeah the 6/1/2011 supercell was probably one of the most photogenic on radar that you'll ever see. It was truly textbook in every sense of the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Working on it. Just pulled up an ENX image from 22z and it's wild. Monster supercell west of Albany in Otsego County and a monster squall line from GC to Socks. That's the Mechanicville F3 cell right? That cell was freaking scary...from everything I read that scared the crap out of every forecaster from that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Agreed, it is fortunate the tornado wasn't hitting a whole lot when it maxed out east of Springfield. Well not really sure you could exactly say that...parts of Monson were hit very hard and it was extremely close to F4 damage in parts of that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yeah that storm was wild. It actually peaked over Lyme.... but it's so rural down there it didn't do as much damage as places up north around Vernon. Ekster has posted it before, but can you post that radar grab when it was over Vernon, I think it had like 70 dbz if I recall correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 That storm formed on a backdoor front which is somewhat rate to get a storm that strong forming along a backdoor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Ekster has posted it before, but can you post that radar grab when it was over Vernon, I think it had like 70 dbz if I recall correctly I actually might have it...h/o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 That storm formed on a backdoor front which is somewhat rate to get a storm that strong forming along a backdoor It was probably one of those weird over the top EML layers (or at least steep mid level lapse rates) that got shunted almost due south into the region. That's what happened in May 2010 when there was that swath of wind damage from BTV to Moneypitmike's area. That can happen. Vortex 95 told me a story that back in the 80s..we had this ULL just east of us and tstms would form and actually move in from the NNE! Sometimes they formed in the Gulf of Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I used to...probably was on my old computer...oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yeah the 6/1/2011 supercell was probably one of the most photogenic on radar that you'll ever see. It was truly textbook in every sense of the word. It was comparable to some of the stuff we saw on 4/27 last year and 3/2 of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 It was probably one of those weird over the top EML layers (or at least steep mid level lapse rates) that got shunted almost due south into the region. That's what happened in May 2010 when there was that swath of wind damage from BTV to Moneypitmike's area. That can happen. Vortex 95 told me a story that back in the 80s..we had this ULL just east of us and tstms would form and actually move in from the NNE! Sometimes they formed in the Gulf of Maine. I had 2 severe storms that night. 1 severe hail and 1 severe wind. That was wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 It was probably one of those weird over the top EML layers (or at least steep mid level lapse rates) that got shunted almost due south into the region. That's what happened in May 2010 when there was that swath of wind damage from BTV to Moneypitmike's area. That can happen. Vortex 95 told me a story that back in the 80s..we had this ULL just east of us and tstms would form and actually move in from the NNE! Sometimes they formed in the Gulf of Maine. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/1995/us0620.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I had 2 severe storms that night. 1 severe hail and 1 severe wind. That was wild. That's awesome. In Guilford no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Looking at some soundings from 12z of 6/20/95 you can see a steep lapse rate environment across the region ALB: OKX: CHH: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Ryan, can you fire up May 21 1996 around 2020z? That was the Brockton MA macroburst with 100mph winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 http://www.meteo.psu...1995/us0620.php That probably meso low was also likely a major factor, especially with increased helicity in order to get hail of that caliber along with steep lapse rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yeah Wiz, go back to the PSU NARR site. Look at the origin of the airmass. Over the top steep lapse rates advected SE by the trough north of Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Ekster has posted it before, but can you post that radar grab when it was over Vernon, I think it had like 70 dbz if I recall correctly Not as impressive as the other grad from Lyme but still one hell of a storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Ryan, can you fire up May 21 1996 around 2020z? That was the Brockton MA downburst with 100mph winds. Yeah give me a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yeah Wiz, go back to the PSU NARR site. Look at the origin of the airmass. Over the top steep lapse rates advected SE by the trough north of Maine. That's actually freaking amazing. I never have actually thought of that until now. You can certainly see the EML even better here on the CYX sounding from 12z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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