2025 Short Range Severe Weather Discussion

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Hoping for a repeat of last night around here but knowing the model and media hype there’s a miss south incoming.

[A-L-E-K]

Nice

 

 

[Chinook]

3 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Hoping for a repeat of last night around here but knowing the model and media hype there’s a miss south incoming.

Direct hit with heavy rain and lightning, as well as some severe wind reports.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

23 minutes ago, Chinook said:

Direct hit with heavy rain and lightning, as well as some severe wind reports.

MSP had a 60mph gust. Heavy rain, good light show, quality nightcap. 

[hawkeye_wx]

Holy cow, what a storm!   This reminds me of the derecho.  It briefly poured half-inch size hail, then 70 mph wind blasted through.  I couldn't even see the houses across the street.  Thankfully, our hail was only half-inch size.  A spotter only a mile away reported ping-pong ball size.

[Chicago Storm]

3 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Holy cow, what a storm!   This reminds me of the derecho.  It briefly poured half-inch size hail, then 70 mph wind blasted through.  I couldn't even see the houses across the street.  Thankfully, our hail was only half-inch size.  A spotter only a mile away reported ping-pong ball size.

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[hawkeye_wx]

Models did a terrible job forecasting this.  The HRRR literally had nothing making it to eastern Iowa only a few hours ago.  The RRFS had something small passing across northeast Iowa.

[sbnwx85]

If the MCS in Wisconsin can hold together that’s a classic Milwaukee to South Bend track. Some of the best storms in memory have taken that route.

[A-L-E-K]

Looks like action expected around my arrival time, blessed

[Malacka11]

Looks like a decent hit incoming 

[sbnwx85]

Hearing from the gf’s dad that Crystal Lake got a good hit. 50+ mph winds.

[sbnwx85]

Des Plaines getting rocked too. Inch plus hail.

[pen_artist]

Got some quarter hail and strong winds, not sure of what the wind damage looks like though in Downers Grove/Woodridge area.

[Malacka11]

Kind of thankful to get a chance to do it again because I'm not exaggerating when I say my backyard got split by probably less than a couple kilometers both east and west. 

[A-L-E-K]

5 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Looks like action expected around my arrival time, blessed

Landed in cedar rapids

[A-L-E-K]

Apparently parents got rocked, mom said it looks like a bomb went off, waiting for cary#s to confirm

[Jackstraw]

Flash Bang lightning out there. 3-5 strikes a minute. Watched from the porch for 90 min as these mini complex's moved SSE. Best light show of the year. They are just now weakening which could mean some left over outflows for initiation tomorrow morning similar to earlier today. Best light show of the year, until its on top of you lol.

[sbnwx85]

Watched two outflow boundaries collide just to my south on radar. Nice line of storms developed with, as @Jackstraw described, constant lightning.

[cyclone77]

'Heat' lightning pretty frequent in the northern sky here.  

[Cary67]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Apparently parents got rocked, mom said it looks like a bomb went off, waiting for cary#s to confirm

Kaboom. No power for 4 hrs.Needed the rain though.