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    Storms and Convective discussion - 1st June 2020onwards

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    Gave up a little too early last night, as we had a shower about 8pm, and thought it was all over. Went for a walk and amazingly, 10 to 11pm, watching the cell over Northwich and Warrington as it went Livepool way and had the pleasure of the updraft lighting up like a lightbulb every minute or so.

    Gutted, that yesterday the spring in my car broke, so can't drive, else would have either been after it or up somewhere high with a tripod, timelapsing it.

    More today though!

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    Best storm you've ever seen in the UK

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    On 29/05/2020 at 23:19, SNOW_JOKE said:

    There's been a fair few that have stuck to mind including the now-infamous Manchester Supercell which developed just 5 miles down the Goyt from me however the most memorable has to be when I was young so I don't remember the exact date, but it was in summer during the mid-late 90s there was a plume breakdown which gave the best and most continuous cloud-cloud lightning i've seen at night for just under a hour. The kind you get in Spain or central France where you can place your hands across your face and move it across with a strobe-light kind of effect going on. Obviously we've had storms at night since then but nothing as energetic as that was.

    Keen to know about this Manchester supercell you mentioned if you have any info!

    Best storm you've ever seen in the UK

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    Got a top two of storms, neither I can decide between:-

    1. 13th September 2016 in Wilmslow - Came out of work after a horrifically humid day, when you knew it was a case of when, and not if, it cracks off, and had been watching huge storms develop up out of the Midlands and coming this way. Leaving work it was dark and the whole way to the South was so incredibly dark, it genuinely looked like storm chasing in the states. The sky also had that smoothed look across the front like a supercell in the states can do sometimes. Needless to say a mile or two from work and the heavens opened, you could see trees disappear into the wall of water coming my way. Lightning started appearing too, and rather than what I usually see in the UK, with C-C and I-C, this seemed to be aggressively pelting the ground with pink C-G's and a stroke would pulse and last for long enough to focus on it. Torrential rain and thunder and lightning for around 2 hours as it passed off over the Pennines, even got a chase out of it in the car. Lots of flooding and debris afterwards.
    2. Tempted to say this was around 20-22 July 2006 in Rugby, Warwickshire - Away for a day but as I was only 15 and still kind of scared of storms, I stayed away from this. Remember it being a very hot and sultry day with no breeze, and then it clouded over, before starting to rain and then thunder. I remember looking out the window and the edge of the storm I saw racing overhead from the right towards the left, which is when the torrential rain started to fall with lots of thunder and lightning. I'm assuming now, with 15 years more obsessing over severe weather it was some sort of gust front or shelf cloud racing over on the front of the storm, but there was a massive downdraft, tall thin trees were bending to 45° during the initial downburst. Again, an hour or so of thunder and lightning afterwards and still a little muggy. The year could be wrong here, but 2006 or earlier and definitely July.

    Mike.

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    Tornado threat 18th March onward

    in Storm Chase USA

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    Several tornado warnings including confirmed tornadoes across IL this evening, with the 10% Enhanced Risk up there. Also not sure if it's real or not, but have seen reports on Twitter from the supercell near Burkburnett, TX last night that there was around an 8 inch hail stone that came through someones roof? Have seen the picture and the hole it left, not sure if 8 inches is possible, but there were certainly some 5"+ hail reports last night in that area. Grapefruits? Bigger?

    Mike.

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