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2026 Mid-Atlantic Severe Storm General Discussion


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4 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Got mesocyclones on the warned storms. Could see a potential tornado threat given some time. 

Little cluster down 81 let’s see if these storms fire up more. One by Hagerstown has my attention 

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3 hours ago, Nomz said:

Almost clear in DC, although we still might have some cloud deck coming in, according to vis sat. Already 84/54 at DCA, so it will be nearly impossible for storms to get down to the surface. The HRRR and RRFS are progging ~500 CAPE peak for DC, while the NAM nest and RAP are >1000. Usually, I'd lean towards the RAP, but both it and the NAM are initializing too cold (3 degrees or so), so I'll lean towards the HRRR and RRFF, which show a kind of isolated low-topped supercell event. Maybe some small hail.

never let me forecast again

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Just now, Maestrobjwa said:

Sbow is tricky enough, but severe is it's own brand of tricky...might wanna leave it to @Kmlwx and company, lol

SVWX is definitely my "specialty" though. What got me into weather, and what is still my favorite to forecast. To be fair I was probably right about the DC area, we just don't have enough instability because we had a local area of persistent cloud deck for basically the entire day.

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This event is very driven by 700mb forcing. Local maxima NW of Baltimore, where the most severe storming is, and much less flow with southern extent, which is causing the southern side of the storm to be much weaker. Our temp/dew spreads are a little wider down here as well, which is not helping matters.

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