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Cristobal Remnants June 9-10


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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED  
TORNADO WARNING  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE  
747 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2020  
  
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A  
  
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...  
  SOUTHEASTERN COOK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS...  
  NORTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN INDIANA...  
  
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT.  
      
* AT 747 PM CDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO  
  WAS LOCATED OVER HOMEWOOD, OR OVER GLENWOOD, MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35  
  MPH.  
  
  HAZARD...TORNADO.  
  
  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.  
  
  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT   
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.   
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS, WINDOWS, AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE   
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY.  
  
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...  
  MUNSTER AND DOLTON AROUND 755 PM CDT.  
  CALUMET CITY AND BURNHAM AROUND 800 PM CDT.  
  HAMMOND AND WHITING AROUND 805 PM CDT.  
  EAST CHICAGO AROUND 810 PM CDT.  

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"Storm" earlier just after 3PM with the initial feeder band ended up having enough wind to take down a ~1 foot diameter tree in the neighbors yard.

Rapid increase in synoptic winds recently now, just took down another tree in a different neighbors yards. Could hear cracking of likely smaller branches in the distance with the bigger gusts.

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23 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

Everything in Chicagoland has that look to it. Heads up, Hoosier! I’m sure he’s well aware and of that cell coming in. Looks nasty right now. 

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I had to speed through dinner to get outside lol.  Rotation passed almost right overhead and now another tornado warned cell will pass to my nw.  

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Finally declared post-tropical in Wisconsin.  If that holds up in reanalysis, it would be the first system on record to retain tropical characteristics into Wisconsin.  Either way, we are talking many hundreds of miles and perhaps in excess of 1000 miles over land before it lost all of its tropical characteristics.  Very impressive.

 

BULLETIN
Post-Tropical Cyclone Cristobal Advisory Number  34
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD   AL032020
1000 PM CDT Tue Jun 09 2020

...CRISTOBAL BECOMES EXTRATROPICAL...
...WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL AFFECTING THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES
TONIGHT...


SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...43.5N 90.4W
ABOUT 180 MI...330 KM NW OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS
ABOUT 60 MI...110 KM NW OF MADISON WISCONSIN
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...35 MPH...55 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 31 MPH...50 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...986 MB...29.21 INCHES


WATCHES AND WARNINGS
--------------------
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for...
* Parts of the Midwest and western Great Lakes

Wind Advisories are in effect for...
* Chicagoland and areas adjacent to Lakes Michigan and Superior

A Gale Warning is in effect for...
* Lake Michigan
* Eastern Lake Superior
* Portions of Lake Huron

For storm information specific to your area, including possible
inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your
local National Weather Service forecast office.


DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
----------------------
At 1000 PM CDT (0300 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone
Cristobal was located near latitude 43.5 North, longitude 90.4 West.
The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the north-northeast near
31 mph (50 km/h) and this motion is expected to continue as 
Cristobal tracks toward Lake Superior and then into Ontario, 
Canada by Wednesday morning.

Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts.
Some further strengthening is possible as Cristobal fully 
transitions to an extratropical low.

The estimated minimum central pressure is 989 mb (29.21 inches).


HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
----------------------
WIND: Winds gusting over 45 mph are expected tonight and Wednesday
over Chicagoland and areas adjacent to the western Great Lakes.

RAINFALL: Cristobal will produce storm total rain accumulations
of 2 to 4 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of 5 inches from
southeast Minnesota through much of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan, and parts of lower Michigan. This rainfall may produce
flash flooding, and is forecast to produce new and renewed minor to
moderate river flooding across portions of the mid to upper
Mississippi Valleys.


NEXT ADVISORY
-------------
Next complete advisory at 400 AM CDT.

$$
Forecaster Burke
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It's weird that the cells over southern Lake Michigan don't have any lightning despite 1500-2000 j/kg MUCAPE according to SPC meso-analysis.  Cells near Purt Huran / Sarnia have a lot of lighting, with less MUCAPE (800 j/kg at best).  Maybe mid-level lapse rate is more important than CAPE for lighting.

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Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville, IL
1012 PM CDT Tue Jun 9 2020

.MESOSCALE DISCUSSION...
1010 PM CDT

An interesting environment continues to reside over the southern
forecast area, particularly along and east of the I-55 corridor.
A severe threat, conditional on sustained storms, continues in
that area even into the overnight, though confidence is on the
lower end on the coverage and magnitude of convection as it moves
northeastward especially late tonight toward the pre-dawn.

The circulation remnants of Cristobal have lifted north into
Wisconsin, with an impingement of more of a mid-latitudeelevated
mixed layer around its southern influence and over our southern
forecast area. This coincides with a low-level warm sector inching
its way northward from central Illinois. A boundary that was part
left from Cristobal and enhanced from earlier outflow,is draped
southwestward from the south Chicago metro near I-55 into west
central/southwest Illinois. Scattered convection of a more
mature/deeper character has developed along this the past hour to
two in central Illinois back into northern Missouri. Likely this
is combination of the aforementioned features and the oddity of a
warm core system pulling away from the region thus reducing the
700 mb cap of 13C seen on the 00Z ILX sounding. Because of this,
convection the next few hours is expected to have a gradual uptick
and not explosive such as with a triggering mechanism moving in.

In the residual tropical atmosphere characterized by 18C-19C 850
mb dew points, it will continue to not take much of an impetus to
get convection to fester along the boundary or grow given MUCAPE
in excess of 1000 J/kg and increasing. These cells have had much
more lightning than the earlier activity directly associated with
Cristobal`s remnants, and that along with colder IR-sampled cloud
tops indicate the deeper updrafts to balance high helicity
(effective 400 m2/s2) and deep layer shear (40 kts). As scattered
convection is expected to continue, supercell-like structures are
likely to be common if cells to not amalgamate or become too close
in proximity near the boundary. If cells can maintain discrete
attributes, they will have some tornado threat given the low-
level kinematics and low-level instability for stretching pre-
existing vorticity. These will also continue to be some wind
threat too, as well as possibly a localized flooding threat given
some training potential.

The convection allowing models (CAMs) present quite a spectrum of
solutions, not surprising in such a moist troposphere. Feel that
the most likely solution is convection continue to have a slow
uptick in central Illinois into the southeast third of the
forecast area (east central IL and northwest IN) through early
overnight. There will probably be at least isolated activity to
continue even into daybreak as an upper/mid level speed max from
the true mid-latitude wave approaches. This will need to be
assessed further, particularly if deeper convection could resurge
/re-develop in or near northwest Indiana later Wednesday
morning/early Wednesday afternoon as the upper wave center moves
over the region.

MTF

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28 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Temp has rebounded to 81 here with winds still pretty gusty.   What a night.  

Wow, only 71 here.  You were definitely in a good location for nice action from this event.  Since this event was pretty ball-less here I'm ready for this to get out of here and get some good ol' fashioned summertime convection back in here.  

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So Cristobal made it all the way to *checks notes* Richland County before becoming extratropical. That's a sentence I would never have thought of writing before this. To put it in perspective it actually made it farther north than where I am, albeit not by much. It's actual effects were a lot more benign though. We did eventually get the wind and we topped at probably 40-50 mph. Rain-wise we got our couple inches, it was absolutely pouring at a few points. Overall just a cool event.

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12 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Wow, only 71 here.  You were definitely in a good location for nice action from this event.  Since this event was pretty ball-less here I'm ready for this to get out of here and get some good ol' fashioned summertime convection back in here.  

I'd probably put it in my top 5 in terms of tropical remnants.  No high end weather... but between the winds, tropical downpours and tornado warned cells, it was pretty good in the context of tropical remnants. 

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1 hour ago, cyclone77 said:

Wow, only 71 here.  You were definitely in a good location for nice action from this event.  Since this event was pretty ball-less here I'm ready for this to get out of here and get some good ol' fashioned summertime convection back in here.  

Here's one you would've liked

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