Severe Weather 2018

[akt1985]

I feel bad for those vacationing in Gatlinburg this week as every day has featured an MCS rolling through the Smokies.

 

[Kory]

I feel bad for those vacationing in Gatlinburg this week as every day has featured an MCS rolling through the Smokies.

I'd gladly take that. 17 days and counting since measurable rainfall in Tuscaloosa.

 

[Jacob]

I'd gladly take that. 17 days and counting since measurable rainfall in Tuscaloosa.

That is crazy to me that it has missed Tuscaloosa that much. I've barely been able to get yard work done in Trussville (my back yard doesn't drain well) because it has rained seemingly every other day for the past few weeks.

 

[Kory]

That is crazy to me that it has missed Tuscaloosa that much. I've barely been able to get yard work done in Trussville (my back yard doesn't drain well) because it has rained seemingly every other day for the past few weeks.

It's honestly become a joke. We've been hitting highs in the upper 90s because of how dry it has been locally. The only reason this map below (2 week running total) shows 0.1-0.25" of rain for Tuscaloosa is because of it's coarse resolution. Last rainfall >0.01 on campus was 6/11.

 

[Daryl]

 

[akt1985]

That is a pretty large severe t-storm watch.

 

[WesL]

#PolygonsGoneWild Has an entire CWA ever been under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning? HUN going for the record (and rightly so).

 

[akt1985]

Any reports of damage in the Huntsville area?

 

[WesL]

Any reports of damage in the Huntsville area?

A tree on a house in Huntsville, reports of trees in powerlines in N. Madison co. That's about it. Apparently a large tree blocking a road at Lake Guntersville State Park.

 

[WesL]

Not sure if I've posted this before but here is the link to what I call radar view at UAH. It is a camera at UA Huntsville's Severe Weather Institute - Radar & Lighting Laboratories. It is constantly taking and uploading the view.

https://uah.roundshot.com/swirll/

Say goodbye to at least 30 min of your life.

 

[KoD]

That second complex moving into limestone/Madison from TN is packing a punch. I got some incredible timelapses from Athens & Huntsville today.

I'm seeing a few trees down in Limestone county around the correctional facility, Nick davis

 

[JayF]

#PolygonsGoneWild Has an entire CWA ever been under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning? HUN going for the record (and rightly so).

I don't understnad why they had Blount and Etowah counties under a T-storm warning when the storms still had about 30 to 45 minutes to get there. They just recently entered those counties. I think it was a bit early.

 

[JayF]

GLM from GOES-16

 

[Equus]

The gust front on that MCS was pretty wild, 20+ minutes of strong wind and fascinating low dark scuddy skies. Roads covered in leaves and twigs all around.

 

[Kory]

The gust front on that MCS was pretty wild, 20+ minutes of strong wind and fascinating low dark scuddy skies. Roads covered in leaves and twigs all around.

We lost several big oaks on the Quad and power is out. They were definitely close to severe limits if not above.

 

[Equus]

Oh wow. Yeah I know there are a few trees down across Walker as per BMX, and I heard some limbs snapping, but I think it had weakened a bit below that level before it reached is all the way down here.

 

[Kory]

And finally got a decent rain

 

[bwalk]

I feel bad for those vacationing in Gatlinburg this week as every day has featured an MCS rolling through the Smokies.

It's turned into a dangerous flood event for many camping in the Smokies. Some creeks rose 6 feet in 6 hours (according to one report). Made the national news.

 

[rolltide_130]

The end of June kind of marks a wrap on the peak of MCS season for us, as July begins to trend towards hotter and drier weather and weaker flow conditions dominating. Rainfall typically begins to become more isolated garden variety thunderstorms, so this may mark the end of peak severe weather season for us until November save for an isolated MCS system or a landfalling tropical system.

Overall, I'd quantify this as a slightly below average season, and far, far below most expectations with one significant tornado event and two significant damaging wind events (Including one derecho) for Dixie with most of April and all of May in particular being extremely quiet. Of course it only takes one system for any one person to be heavily impacted and thus view this year as an extremely significant severe weather year (Such as those living in Jacksonville or anyone who was impacted by last week's derecho), but from a pure numbers perspective, this year was very quiet, especially given the LOFTY expectations set for it in March and early April.

Also, the United States is still searching for its first EF-4+ of the year. Its very difficult to get one from July-October, so we may be waiting until November to see any real shot at breaking that drought. If we don't, 2018 will have set the record as first year in the recording era of torndoes to not have an EF-4+, and it will have to pull a 2015-style cool season coup in order to unseat the quietest year on record title that it is currently barreling towards.

 

[akt1985]

A sportscaster in Iowa was killed in a flash flood on Saturday.

http://www.startribune.com/sportscaster-dies-after-iowa-floodwaters-sweep-him-away/487055611/