Convective/storm Discussion

[Harry]

'UKSupercell' post='1560828' date='7 Jul 2009, 02:57 PM']2ND BIG(ISH) STORM OF THE YEAR!!!

Biggish storm just passed overhead, still raining moderately, been raining heavily but not torrentially i'd say for the last 20 minutes or so with about 3 heavy showers before this we've had earlier, all with heavy rain and thunder.

This one though, saw about 5 flashes of lightning including a cloud-ground which wasn't far away as the thunder sounded the second after and the same with all the other strikes, lightning right after so the storm is right on top of us here, no hail though this time which surprised me.

AS FOR THE CLOUDS - I couldn't be more dissapointed right now, A DARK BLUE, BLACK EVEN LAYER OF DEFINITE WALL CLOUD crossed just to the north of me, with us getting i'd say the precipitation of the cell, and the wind was very very gusty, the fractus or scud was really dangling down and the cloud was unbelievably ragged and low. I'm certain i've just witnessed possibly my first ever proper wall cloud. Unfortunately, as I don't have a camera I had to ask to borrow my mum's and then brother's cameras which are both pretty damn good, both hadn't been charged and had no battery......GREAT.

Ended up wasting about 1 minute that's all and using my mobile phone camera which isn't bad but not too good but what a surprise, as the clouds are moving so quickly at the moment, the wall cloud formation seemed to disperse a bit or just vanish to the north of me and I'm really angry cos I really wanted to get a picture of that to show you guys cos that was a definite wall cloud it was so dark and low and I know what wall clouds from american supercells look like lol.

Ah well.....I have 1 or 2 pics i'll put up later but the quality yet again won't be brilliant.

Well hopefully this is what is steaming towards me!!! Will definitely be keeping all eyes skyward just in case

Bring in more storms!!!

Edited July 7, 2009 by Harry

[Gratts]

Peterborough you have come up trumps again but i can see the end of it already

[CardiffStorm]

I think I have quite possibly the most boring weather here at the moment. Absolutely no rain and nothing coming my way on the radar but loads of cloud so the sun cant even come through. How annoying.

[UKSupercell]

Well hopefully this is what is steaming towards me!!! Will definitely be keeping all eyes skyward just in case

Bring in more storms!!!

Yeah, I hope you get a good storm mate!

Oh by the way, anvils all around but 1 particular anvil to the north-west displaying large mammatus.

I reckon somewhere today surely will report a funnel, waterspout or small tornado, everywhere is saying conditions are favourable for twisting up there so let's hope so.

Great shots! You can really see the wall of rain!

Brilliant pics w0033944!!!!

[Tom D]

Another storm coming now, big deep rumbles every couple of minutes or so.

[Harry]

Raining lightly/moderately atm! Pants so far, lol

Sky black to my North and Northwest - hope this isn't another even closer repeat of earlier - not heard any thunder still

Edited July 7, 2009 by Harry

[Crimson_Sprite]

OK calling all Leicester-heads! You should be getting the storm that has swept west of me in Notts, the clouds are totally Kansas for this storm, and since my sheild split the storm as it went around Notts, I need to get my storm fix from anyone in its path! Can anyone tell me if its producing super amounts of thunder and lightning yet?? It passed Derby about 20min ago and is almost on top of Leicester now! Clouds are truly magnificent for this storm!

[Cloudwatcher]

I think I have quite possibly the most boring weather here at the moment. Absolutely no rain and nothing coming my way on the radar but loads of cloud so the sun cant even come through. How annoying.

I know what you are saying though, it seems everyone is having a great (stormy) time apart from us! We have had the same bland weather (ie wall to wall cloud, no sun, no heating) for three weeks now.

Hope you get something soon.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Cloudwatcher

[Dean E]

Afternoon all

Just had 3 massive storms, with frequent thunder and lightning and some very torrential rain!

I see another one coming my way!

Having had hardly any storms this year, i Think today has made up for it

[YokTok]

Rumble of thunder heard in sunny Redhill looks pretty mean. will setup cam again if it turns into a gooden.

[Harry]

Gone VERY dark here - thought I heard thunder but it was just after a motorbike, grr!!

In fact the sky is black/dark blue - good sign, just will it come over, and will it thunder???

Edited July 7, 2009 by Harry

[UKSupercell]

get yourself over to The No Storms Club and let it all out....This forum is reserved for people experiencing storms (ie: southerners...) lol.

I know what you are saying though, it seems everyone is having a great (stormy) time apart from us! We have had the same bland weather (ie wall to wall cloud, no sun, no heating) for three weeks now.

Hope you get something soon.

Cloudwatcher, that's kinda a load of rubbish to be frank, the south had storms the weekend of glastonbury and yesterday and today, the north had storms yesterday as well though and today and pretty much all last week unlike the south that had damn all last week but just had sunshine and heat, if anything the north has had more storms than the south this year and that's a fact.

It's a load of rubbish in my point of view that the "south-east has the most storms in the UK" as far as I know, places like the midlands and lincolnshire always get a lot of the action and the north have their fair share as well.

[Methuselah]

No...jealousy is when you are standing out in the courtyard with beaming hot sunshine with anvils all around you!! lol

No no no, Harry. Jealousy is when you hear that Inverness is entirely cut-off by snowdrifts, only to look out the window and see it raining!

[remymartin]

Its on its way to london passed here 10 mins ago was not electrified untill it passed

[Harry]

Just seen lightning - this thing is rotating like an absolute b*tch!!!!

[Crimson_Sprite]

Just seen lightning - this thing is rotating like an absolute b*tch!!!!

TAKE PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CardiffStorm]

Just been looking at a few different lightning detectors and they're all saying the storms are intensifing, you lucky b*****ds.

[Tom D]

Looks fun up in Leicester! Loads of strikes on the lightning overlay!

[NorthantsSnow]

Watching that system that extends from Leicestershire through to Staffordshire with interest. Looks fairly active and heading this way

[Glideslope]

Afternoon folks,

I was going to move into the ' no storm club ' but have had two TS move thru here, some nice CG's and booming thunder looks like more are on the way

Steve

[Harry]

ANYONE IN LONDON!! NOW, EAST LONDON! To me, it is a clear wall cloud - rotation like nothing I have seen in this country before!

Thunder and lightning, loads of CGs too!!! Its mental!!

[Lightningboy]

i cannot believe we are missing out seeing portsmouth with these storms is so frustrating grrr everything has gone round us

[jaynemc]

Another storm just passed over here at Tadworth (nr Redhill, surrey) More torrential rain and sky really black ! Lightning and thunder aplenty :-)

2nd storm of the day.....bring it on !

[Harry]

Here are the pics!

[Coast]

More on its way for me from the West by he looks of it. I'll happily pass it on to Harry afterwards as he needs the buzzzzzzzzz!

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*** NexStorm TRAC Report generated 07/07/2009 15:23:54

Tracking 9 thunderstorms

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Thunderstorm ID Y-2973 detected 13:16

Storm location bearing 85.0 dgr distance 28 mi

Last recorded activity 15:22

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 2/minute

Peak strikerate 13/minute

Total recorded strikes 281

Cloud-Ground strikes 97 - 34.52%

Intracloud strikes 184 - 65.48%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 10 - 3.56%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 87 - 30.96%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 139 - 49.47%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 45 - 16.01%

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Thunderstorm ID P-3312 detected 13:21

Storm location bearing 347.3 dgr distance 64 mi

Last recorded activity 15:23

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 5/minute

Peak strikerate 16/minute

Total recorded strikes 456

Cloud-Ground strikes 209 - 45.83%

Intracloud strikes 247 - 54.17%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 23 - 5.04%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 186 - 40.79%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 201 - 44.08%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 46 - 10.09%

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Thunderstorm ID Q-6380 detected 14:12

Storm location bearing 98.6 dgr distance 26 mi

Last recorded activity 15:23

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend No change

Current strikerate 1/minute

Peak strikerate 14/minute

Total recorded strikes 194

Cloud-Ground strikes 56 - 28.87%

Intracloud strikes 138 - 71.13%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 10 - 5.15%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 46 - 23.71%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 82 - 42.27%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 56 - 28.87%

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Thunderstorm ID P-2888 detected 15:00

Storm location bearing 210.7 dgr distance 39 mi

Last recorded activity 15:22

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Intensifying

Current strikerate 4/minute

Peak strikerate 8/minute

Total recorded strikes 64

Cloud-Ground strikes 12 - 18.75%

Intracloud strikes 52 - 81.25%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 3 - 4.69%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 9 - 14.06%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 23 - 35.94%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 29 - 45.31%

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Thunderstorm ID H-1824 detected 12:56

Storm location bearing 29.5 dgr distance 72 mi

Last recorded activity 15:22

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 4/minute

Peak strikerate 10/minute

Total recorded strikes 176

Cloud-Ground strikes 78 - 44.32%

Intracloud strikes 98 - 55.68%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 6 - 3.41%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 72 - 40.91%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 67 - 38.07%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 31 - 17.61%

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Thunderstorm ID P-2064 detected 14:47

Storm location bearing 11.2 dgr distance 74 mi

Last recorded activity 15:23

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 5/minute

Peak strikerate 9/minute

Total recorded strikes 277

Cloud-Ground strikes 118 - 42.60%

Intracloud strikes 159 - 57.40%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 5 - 1.81%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 113 - 40.79%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 119 - 42.96%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 40 - 14.44%

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Thunderstorm ID T-1432 detected 14:36

Storm location bearing 257.1 dgr distance 5 mi

Last recorded activity 15:19

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 1/minute

Peak strikerate 16/minute

Total recorded strikes 128

Cloud-Ground strikes 36 - 28.12%

Intracloud strikes 92 - 71.88%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 21 - 16.41%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 15 - 11.72%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 42 - 32.81%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 50 - 39.06%

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Thunderstorm ID T-1264 detected 14:34

Storm location bearing 146.4 dgr distance 8 mi

Last recorded activity 15:23

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend No change

Current strikerate 2/minute

Peak strikerate 4/minute

Total recorded strikes 111

Cloud-Ground strikes 32 - 28.83%

Intracloud strikes 79 - 71.17%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 8 - 7.21%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 24 - 21.62%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 47 - 42.34%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 32 - 28.83%

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Thunderstorm ID T-1539 detected 14:38

Storm location bearing 191.5 dgr distance 37 mi

Last recorded activity 15:23

Intensity class Weak

Intensity trend Weakening

Current strikerate 2/minute

Peak strikerate 11/minute

Total recorded strikes 109

Cloud-Ground strikes 29 - 26.61%

Intracloud strikes 80 - 73.39%

-- Strike type distribution --

Positive Cloud-Ground [+CG] 11 - 10.09%

Negative Cloud-Ground [-CG] 18 - 16.51%

Positive Intracloud [+IC] 41 - 37.61%

Negative Intracloud [-IC] 39 - 35.78%

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*** TRAC Report end - NexStorm V1.6.0.2553:PCI

Edited July 7, 2009 by Coast