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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    Following the two storms I saw early this morning and this afternoons offerings I am happy with today. A good day for storms, even it they are not as intense as expected. I'd planned on staying home but did get drawn out for a 'mini chase' and went eastwards through Heanor and towards Eastwood and the M1. There was some very intense rain near Langley Mill/Eastwood but no lightning seen, despite lightning on the detectors. I felt the cell had hope so I headed north up the M1, eventually stopping just northeast of Clay Cross near M1 J29 to watch the storm move in. It looked on the lightning detector like it had become quite active, however I only caught a couple of flashes and a few distant rumbles before it decided to die out.  With that I had planned to home as didnt want to miss anything but ended up stuck in an accident (again!) on the M1. Luckily I just got back home in time (literally within 2-3 minutes) to catch a storm as it passed over, or at least close to, my home.

    Whilst I was out chasing my footage from last Monday was left uploading to YouTube. Here it is if anyone wants to watch it, seeing as last Monday is old news now 😁

    It has been nice for the storms to come to me for a change. I wonder if the cells south of Brum can turn electrical and make it 5 storms in a day.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    33 minutes ago, Metwatch said:

    It's a tricky one tomorrow looking at the models, could get some good storms while staying at home, but also want to maybe head into the Bedfordshire / Cambridgshire area as it could be slightly better there. AROME and UKV have been looking juicy today for all areas around here, big storms about potentially... @SupacellHave you got a specific or more broad area in mind for tomorrow?

    I will get a better idea of specifics with the high res models in the morning, but for now it looks like thunderstorms developing tomorrow afternoon across a wide area of England and Wales, moving north and upscaling into an area of thundery rain for the evening. In my experience once that happens chasing will be pointless as it'll essentially be a mass of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms. This isn't the best set up to chase. 

    For me there is a sweet spot when the thunderstorms first develop to where they congeal. It'll probably change by morning but someone earlier mentioned Cambs/Lincs and I think this is a good bet. From where I live I'd probably be heading in the direction of Grantham/Stamford.

    However, before we get there I may get to see a storm tonight if AROME and UKV are correct and it's feasible I may be chasing in the local area overnight. 

    Just to add, tomorrow's storms look to be benefit from wind shear and with the predicted CAPE there could be some very active storms, possibly severe storms.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    12 hours ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

    I’m enjoying this - really well put together and you’ve got the pacing and narration spot on 🙂👍

    I really need to bring a video camera with me in future - the phone practically does everything and when it’s capturing photos I can’t do much else. Have some older videos which I need to dig out and share - there’s an excellent storm from a good 4/5 years back where I realised if I looked up I could see the lightning dancing about in the column. Just need to find out where it ended up 😬

    Thank you. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my videos so that's good to hear 😊.

    I always have to have my video camera. Phones nowadays can shoot some great videos but I'm a bit old school. And as you say, the phone practically does everything else (radar, lightning detector, sat nav, keeping up to date with posts/obs on Netweather).

    I have a video library all the way back to 2004, but the quality of them is shocking compared to those in 2023.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    2 hours ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

    @Supacell interesting that Stone, Staffs got some flooding + storm damage as 14 miles to the NE near to Wootton there was barely any precip although the outflow was quite substantial at a consistent rate of 50mph for 10 minutes ahead of the line. 

    As I was driving through it there were areas that were dry amongst areas that were flooded. Individual storms were quite localised amongst the large mass of storms. To me it seemed like the system wasn't an organised cell it was lots of smaller cells pulsing up (some briefly becoming severe) before collapsing and then new cells forming in the previous cells outflow. This made it a little harder to know where to position. If there had been some shear yesterday then I reckon there would have been at least a couple of organised severe storms/supercells.

    The outflow was expanding out quite a distance from the storms. The same was true on Sunday, with strong winds fanning miles out from the storms.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    Just now, CreweCold said:

    Nice account of events.

    There was quite a bit of flooding around here too during and just after the storm passed, with many roads under water (saw the pictures on Facebook). One car had to be recovered from floodwater in town.

    Thank you.

    The rain was absolutely torrential under these things so not surprised by the flooding.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    Another chase day yesterday with a high risk of storms expected. 

    Started off heading down to Tamworth, or just south of there, with the idea that the M42 would provide a good north to south road for me to intercept storms moving westwards if and when they developed. I could see storms on the radar, and they were going to head to my south towards Coventry area but there were also new developments further north heading towards Nottinghamshire. I was torn between whether to stay put, head south or head north. In the end I decided to head north as it looked like storms could possibly hit closer to home.

    Joining the M1 at J23A I could see a jet black sky to my north and very soon I was driving into what looked like a strong thunderstorm. Indeed it was, flashes of lightning, torrential rain, 1-2cm hail and all this being slammed against my car by driving winds. All this was in the vicinity of East Midlands Airport. As I knew the storm was travelling westwards I decided to join the A50 and head west in the hope to get ahead of it and get out the car for a bit. I overtook the storm and stopped off at the Derby/Burton services at the A50/A38 junction. Around here there was a brief period of gusty winds and large hail (2cm) as the storm approached but as it moved over the hailstones disappeared and it transitioned to torrential rain but still with some impressive gusts of wind and the rain really was torrential. There were lots of flashes of lightning, but they seemed mainly high based with the thunder not being particularly loud until after the storm was moving away. It is quite possible that the lightning and thunder was being somewhat muted by the intensity of the rain and wind.

    After watching the storm pass over I decided to chase it again, but by now it had pushed further west than I had anticipated. Even so I headed down the A50 and, noticing flashes to my south, I came off at Uttoxeter and headed towards Stafford/Stone. Unfortunately I never managed to catch the storm back up enough to overtake it again, I was instead driving just to its back end and was as such seeing lightning ahead of me but heaving to navigate flooded roads. In Stone I ended up stuck in a traffic jam in what I thought was roadworks and was stuck there for a while. In actual fact it was flooding across the site of the roadworks with traffic cones and barriers strewn across the road, floating around in the floodwater. It was quite scary driving through as the floodwaters were deeper than I thought and I was having to avoid floating debris. 

    Once through this flooding I could see that a number of tree branches were down and there was further flooding in parts. It was quite obvious to me that a severe thunderstorm had passed through Stone. For some strange reason I carried on trying to chase, this time heading towards Nantwich and Chester. I did eventually catch the rear of the storm up again, and by now it was producing some nice CG's and IC's but I was never going to get properly into it again, and subsequently it began to die out. At somewhere just outside Chester I decided to leave it and head home, stopping at Crewe for a quick McDonalds first.

    Ended up getting home about half 10 and just went straight to bed as was working on only 5 hours sleep, hence no update last night. 

    A bit of a rest for storm chasing now for a few days, which works well as I have to edit and upload 3 days worth of footage as well as work. I am already looking out for the next opportunity but for now I am quite glad of the upcoming rest 😂

    Edit: Belper itself was hit by a storm yesterday too, which is somewhat of a rarity. I did not get back to Belper though and if I had done, I probably wouldn't have chased the storm as chasing from home is hard due to busy traffic in Belper at that time on the one main road through the town.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    Two high risks from Dan in 3 days, that must be the first time ever. 

    I am not working today and the risk zone looks on my doorstep and so I will be out and about again. My initial target area is going to be Leicestershire/Warwickshire. I will probably use the A42/M42 for easy access southwest, traffic permitting of course.

    I'm going to have a lot of footage to edit at this rate! 🙂

     

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    Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

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    Well... what a day. Saw plenty of storms through the Midlands. I'm still out (near to Stoke) and just about to head home but did better than yesterday I think. This despite being stuck in traffic for two motorway accidents. To be fair, the second accident killed my chase. I was worried the first had before it even started.

    After attempting to intercept a storm heading westwards towards Lutterworth, I ended up stuck in traffic on the M1. The storm passed over as I sat in congestion and it produced rain and the odd big flash of lightning/bang of thunder. I couldn't see much as i was trapped in the car surrounded by lorries, and I felt an overwhelming sense of dread that this was the end of my day. Luckily the traffic cleared and the storms hadn't moved far.

    I then chased what was a rapidly developing line of storms along the M6 towards Coventry and then M42 southbound around Birmingham, taking in Solihull, Redditch and then onto the M5 northbound (cue second accident) through Birmingham. The fact they were slow moving meant I could get out and film ahead of them a bit before jumping back in the car to get ahead again. However, by the time I was free of the second accident the storms were moving away. I tried to catch them up on the M6 but to no avail. That was OK, it was my way home anyway.

    Much like yesterday the rain was torrential, big huge raindrops and accompanied by gusty winds. The storm heading near to Solihull had some very lively winds ahead of it. Most of the lightning was high based flashing again, but there were quite a lot of flashes and occasionally there was a big IC or CG with a loud bang of thunder. Whilst driving, some of the thunder was very loud.

    All in all, im satisfied with today. It was still flashing occasionally over Stoke up until about 10 minutes ago but the main action is now over Shropshire.

    Heading home now to sleep, then going to be doing it all again tomorrow!

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