3/16/26 Severe Weather Event Thread (Moderate -> Enhanced -> Slight) RESULT: Significant wind after dark

[diatae]

Heavy rain. Strong winds. A Florida summer afternoon storm feel without the lightning. 

[dailylurker]

Not even any lightning. Ahhh... severe season 

[gopper]

heavy rains. no wind.  Thought I heard a rumble of thunder, but turned out to be UPS truck coming down the street. lol.

[RickinBaltimore]

It's been windy here in Dundalk, but outside the rain we got earlier nothing really. They closed schools early for this? 

[Amped]

Think they can expire the tornado watch now. 

[dailylurker]

Severe thunderstorm warning for a line of showers? I don't see anything close to severe.

[TSSN+]

1 minute ago, Amped said:

Think they can expire the tornado watch now. 

Hell let er ride 

[TSSN+]

1 minute ago, dailylurker said:

Severe thunderstorm warning for a line of showers? I don't see anything close to severe.

Got to warn everything to make it look legit 

[WxUSAF]

2 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Severe thunderstorm warning for a line of showers? I don't see anything close to severe.

 

1 minute ago, TSSN+ said:

Got to warn everything to make it look legit 

Helps the school systems out when parents complain lol

[Kmlwx]

Even for severe - making a thread results in a bust

[pazzo83]

when's the second line coming?

[Kmlwx]

18z HRRR for later....

[Paleocene]

Just now, pazzo83 said:

when's the second line coming?

H trips has it around 8pm - 11pm west to east

[hstorm]

1 minute ago, pazzo83 said:

when's the second line coming?

July

[TSSN+]

1 minute ago, Kmlwx said:

18z HRRR for later....

If we can get a low to spin up on the front could see a few low top spins. Also each run increasing winds.

 

[mappy]

11 minutes ago, RickinBaltimore said:

It's been windy here in Dundalk, but outside the rain we got earlier nothing really. They closed schools early for this? 

And if they hadn’t and it was storming when kids let out, people would complain. Schools cannot win either way and always better to err on the side of caution than not 

[IronTy]

So far not much here.  When is the rain gonna start?  

[RickinBaltimore]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

And if they hadn’t and it was storming when kids let out, people would complain. Schools cannot win either way and always better to err on the side of caution than not 

Oh I understand that of course. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't type deal. 

[mappy]

Just now, RickinBaltimore said:

Oh I understand that of course. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't type deal. 

Exactly. I get why they did. Others may not and I have it easy as I work from home so it’s no biggie to me that mine came home early. I understand it’s not as easy for others. 

[87storms]

No complaints about the storm here. Got a washout earlier and some periodic rain since. Few rumbles of thunder. Just not severe…though probably classifies as strong. We’re kind of a joke when it comes to severe weather…it’s just not our strength. We’re much better at variety.

[Bob Chill]

Winds kicking up down here pretty good now with gusts in the low 30s. Wind advisory may verify with fropa in a few hours even if storms aren't organized. 

[csnavywx]

Filtered sun again and that line missed me to the north. The watch getting canx'd here is almost begging to be punched in the stomach by the front this evening. 300-600 cape into 500-700 helicity should be good enough for a few mini-supers, imo -- so long as we are indeed done with this overturning crap.

[Hank Scorpio]

5 minutes ago, mappy said:

Exactly. I get why they did. Others may not and I have it easy as I work from home so it’s no biggie to me that mine came home early. I understand it’s not as easy for others. 

Loudoun didn't send kids home early, but then my kids school ended up within one of the tornado warnings. No tornado of course, but kids were sitting in the hallway in the 'duck and cover' pose for 30 minutes. Ultimately not a huge deal, and since I was watching radar and know what to look for, I wasn't stressing about it at all.

I also know most people not only don't watch the radar, but wouldn't know what to look for even if they did. Probably a pretty anxious time for a lot of parents today. 

[arlwx12]

Channel 5 led off the 3 pm news with video of vehicles on the outer loop of I-495 wading across.

[Eskimo Joe]

3 minutes ago, csnavywx said:

Filtered sun again and that line missed me to the north. The watch getting canx'd here is almost begging to be punched in the stomach by the front this evening. 300-600 cape into 500-700 helicity should be good enough for a few mini-supers, imo -- so long as we are indeed done with this overturning crap.

Classic Mid Atlantic would be to get an EF-3 tornado or something run through the metros not 3 hours after they cancel the watch.

[LeesburgWx]

Watch the main event be coming and we all are giving up

[Amped]

18 minutes ago, TSSN+ said:

If we can get a low to spin up on the front could see a few low top spins. Also each run increasing winds.

 

Winds maybe worse behind the front.

[TSSN+]

Tornado watch canceled 

[EstorilM]

1 minute ago, LeesburgWx said:

Watch the main event be coming and we all are giving up

Well they just dropped the tornado watch for most of us. 

[Eskimo Joe]

2 minutes ago, LeesburgWx said:

Watch the main event be coming and we all are giving up

From the SPC [https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0277.html]

"The tornado watch will be cancelled in the wake of this line of storms. Some threat for damaging convective winds with the front this evening still persists, but will be handled with an additional watch later this evening if necessary."