March 10th, 2026 Severe Threat

[A-L-E-K]

25 minutes ago, King James said:

Another thing to share that I thought was interesting is just as it passed to the south, every single window in the house fogged up

I figured you guys would know why.

But said to my wife “it’s got to be right there, we just can’t see it with the hail and wind”

that happened to our building a few days ago following a warm stretch and quick humid cool off, might have even posted about it lol

[A-L-E-K]

17 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

This is the graph of my home weather station yesterday. You can see the lake breeze and then the recovery.

 

bumping for new page, this is aweseome

[Malacka11]

Yesterday was a very interesting chase. It was my first real chasing trip since getting hit by a satellite back on 4/4/23, so I was eager to have another shot at making safety my number one priority™. I was on the big boy sup for a little while as it cycled and then got to enjoy watching the entire storm tighten up from a very safe vantage point the whole time. It was really cool to observe broader and then tighter rotation show up again on velocity while looking at things in front of us, but then after a while it became fairly clear that there was most certainly a big ass tornado somewhere right in front of us that we couldn't see. 

  

Check this shit out. Despite a plethora of other notable things we came across, it was a bit lame to not actually really "see" the nader of course, especially since we were on it for over an hour with that sig ass signature on it. But just this morning, at the very end of the ~30 seconds of shit phone footage I managed to take, I came across this frame:

 

I surmise it hit a transformer or something literally a second before I ended the video. Note the tree to the left and how it's present in the picture above too; they're taken literally fifteen seconds apart.

Other observations include:

- Shortly before this point, we came across a crap load of massive hail still on the ground. At least good golf ball+ still sitting around in this sunny field in this particular cell's wake.

- Shortly before dark, right around the Indiana border,  the car (presumably another chaser) in front of us slowed way down and was just weird, then kept going. When we got to that point moments later, we registered that they'd been looking at one of those tree trunk remnants that's still a few meters tall standing right next to the road which was literally glowing orange and spitting embers. Kind of cool to come across a fresh lightning strike like that right in plain view, especially because the chase was essentially over at this point.

- On a more fucked note, on the way home on 65 or whatever, both sides of the highway were shut down at a certain point. I'm actually proud of how quickly it dawned on me that it's a bad sign that both north and southbound were shut down because my attention span was... spant at this point. A semi and an SUV laid overturned in the ditch-style median between lanes. We rolled down the windows and saw that all of the trees on either side of the highway were significantly damaged for a very defined ~100 yard swath centered around where the crashed vehicles were. Pulling out radarscope, this appeared to be almost exactly where the couplet had tracked just a little bit ago so I'm almost positive it was indeed the actual damage path of the tornado and not just wind damage. It was a very sobering way to end what was otherwise probably my safest, most incident-free chase so far. 

 

 

 

[frostfern]

2 hours ago, Jackstraw said:

Watched that storm on HiRes Sat throughout its life and that was the most impressive sustained updraft with intense rotation up through 50-60k ft I've seen in our sub. I'm also curious how that early lake breeze that moved inland and stalled right around the IKK area affected it. That storm sure looked like it got rooted into that stalled outflow boundary that collided with the warm front. Some extra enhancement there?

Thats a rare updraft for even TX hail country to be juggling 5-6 inchers 5 miles in the air. Truly epic updraft.

I think the lake breeze might have helped it turn right.  As soon as it did it was back in action.  The low level jet ramped up by 5-10mph or so also at the time.  I’m sure there will be studies.

[frostfern]

https://youtube.com/shorts/L0u2cw4FUhE?si=ddUD9eIfsM5pJCZa

Video of flash flooding and accumulated hail in Grand Rapids, MI last night.  Don’t know how to embed the video.

 

[King James]

This close

[CheeselandSkies]

39 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Yesterday was a very interesting chase. It was my first real chasing trip since getting hit by a satellite back on 4/4/23, so I was eager to have another shot at making safety my number one priority™. I was on the big boy sup for a little while as it cycled and then got to enjoy watching the entire storm tighten up from a very safe vantage point the whole time. It was really cool to observe broader and then tighter rotation show up again on velocity while looking at things in front of us, but then after a while it became fairly clear that there was most certainly a big ass tornado somewhere right in front of us that we couldn't see. 

  

Check this shit out. Despite a plethora of other notable things we came across, it was a bit lame to not actually really "see" the nader of course, especially since we were on it for over an hour with that sig ass signature on it. But just this morning, at the very end of the ~30 seconds of shit phone footage I managed to take, I came across this frame:

I surmise it hit a transformer or something literally a second before I ended the video. 

Other observations include:

- Shortly before this point, we came across a crap load of massive hail still on the ground. At least good golf ball+ still sitting around in this sunny field in this particular cell's wake.

- Shortly before dark, right around the Indiana border,  the car (presumably another chaser) in front of us slowed way down and was just weird, then kept going. When we got to that point moments later, we registered that they'd been looking at one of those tree trunk remnants that's still a few meters tall standing right next to the road which was literally glowing orange and spitting embers. Kind of cool to come across a fresh lightning strike like that right in plain view, especially because the chase was essentially over at this point.

- On a more fucked note, on the way home on 65 or whatever, both "lanes" of the highway were shut down at a certain point. I'm actually proud of how quickly it dawned on me that it's a bad sign that both sides of the road were shut down because my attention span was... spant at this point. A semi and an SUV laid overturned in the ditch-style median between lanes. We rolled down the windows and saw that all of the trees on either side of the highway were significantly damaged for a very defined ~100 yard swath centered around where the crashed vehicles were. Pulling out radarscope, this appeared to be almost exactly where the couplet had tracked just a little bit ago so I'm almost positive it was indeed the actual damage path of the tornado and not just wind damage. It was a very sobering way to end what was otherwise probably my safest, most incident-free chase so far. 

 

 

 

Absolutely textbook "horseshoe" base and monster RFD cut in that first image.

I didn't give the potential for recovery enough credit, I assumed once the lake breeze boundary pushed through that would be sayonara for any supercell in the vicinity. Got on a cell just as it fired north of Galesburg and it looked briefly promising and went tornado-warned for a little while, but a whole bunch of updrafts went up all around and it quickly turned into a mess (potential for that was always there given the boundary-parallel flow, but I had hoped the capping would keep it in check).

[frostfern]

Large “hailbergs” from last night’s storm in Grand Rapids.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CMgnYijVc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Edit:  Does anyone know how to embed links?  A long time ago it used to be easy but the site has changed.

[A-L-E-K]

just post the image address

[frostfern]

1 minute ago, A-L-E-K said:

just post the image address

Thanks.  I would know how on my PC at home, but I’m an idiot boomer with iphone at work.

[A-L-E-K]

sick picture, usually see those type of scenes in high alpine climos where heavy hail storms are more common