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Severe Weather Thread - 7/14/26

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The SPC has outlined a 10% CIG1 for portions of the extreme upper NE today. This is a late thread because for some odd reason, nobody has made a thread about this. Not that I like to make them given the incidents of my last thread, but this is a potentially notable day so here we go.

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New England..
Morning water vapor imagery shows a belt of 80+ knot mid level winds
nosing from eastern Ontario into Quebec, with mid-level height falls
and large-scale forcing spreading into northern New England. This
has been aiding in multiple rounds of intense thunderstorms over
Quebec this morning, but so far this activity has struggled to make
it into the US due to a more stable air mass. This will change
through the day as a moist and moderately unstable air mass advects
eastward into parts of New England ahead of the primary convective
activity. Widespread smoke from upstream fires will also somewhat
limit daytime heating today, although the extent of the cooling is
uncertain.

Present indications are that several convective cells and clusters
will track southeastward across parts of eastern NY, VT/NH and
western ME later this afternoon and evening. Forecast soundings in
this region show favorable CAPE/shear combinations for supercell
storms capable of damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes.
Larger bowing clusters may also evolve, with a greater risk of
damaging winds. This activity may persist after midnight with a
continued severe risk.
 
Satellite clearly shows the smoke keeping the sun out. Not sure where to go in hopes to intercept something today anymore. Debating going west to the southeast of Montreal, or a bit east to the southeast of Sherbrooke.

We might have had a brief spin up though east of Shawinigan about half an hour to an hour ago (attached screenshot)

Friend of mine if reporting a bunch of big trees down and blocking country roads near Richmond from this morning's round. She says tornado but there's wasn't any clearly defined rotation aligned (at least not aligned between reflectivity and velocity). Caught the tail end of that one here, got some street flooding and lots of lightning.
 

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I think the smoke has put the kibosh on this threat. Heard EC downgraded their tornado watch to a severe thunderstorm watch.
The smoke has nothing to do with this. The parameter space here is just meager, the vertical wind profile is directional, and overall other then the very high velocity jet streak, the kinematics in the low levels are not very favorable for tornado genesis.
 
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