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Kain Contributor

Kain

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  • Location: Highley, Shropshire, WV16
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, Snow
  • Location: Highley, Shropshire, WV16
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Supercells, tornadoes, baseball sized hail...and to think this is UK

How often do these type of setups happen on average?

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rob-lancs Rookie

rob-lancs

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  • Location: SE Asia
  • Location: SE Asia
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Thenorthernecho are saying it was a supercell which hit Newcastle, not sure if this is BS or true though. I can still hear the thunder rumbling in the distance, 3 hours after it all started.

http://www.thenorthe...rms_hit_region/

Satellite imagery and that video of the tornado suggests the storm that went through Central England was a supercell. There was a small cell that went through the N/E area around 2-3pm but what is going through now, this band of rain/storms is a trough.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/surface_pressure.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/guide/key.html#pressure

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Alex95 Contributor

Alex95

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  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and heat, North Sea snow
  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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20C now and sunny, with barely any audible thunder. The weather loves to reverse completely!

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Costa Del Fal Experienced

Costa Del Fal

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  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - Heavy Snow Summer - Hot with Night time Thunderstorms
  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
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23c DP at Lakenheath RAF station. Thats some exceptionally high DP.

Today has really whetted the appetite for more this summer however I think today has been pretty damn rare!

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Alex95 Contributor

Alex95

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  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and heat, North Sea snow
  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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23c DP at Lakenheath RAF station. Thats some exceptionally high DP.

Today has really whetted the appetite for more this summer however I think today has been pretty damn rare!

Considering I've never seen a storm like this in the UK I'm not expecting a repeat later on this summer!

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NL Aficionado

NL

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
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Storms just clearing the coast now, an excellent 2 hour display, some fantastic lightning and some pretty energetic rotating clouds and extremely loud thunder. Top thunder day..!!!

Can still hear the thunder and see the odd flash of lightning from the storms now over the north sea...

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Deluxe Newbie

Deluxe

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  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
  • Weather Preferences: Storms
  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
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Phenomenal rainfall rates here, with some hail mixed in. Got some footage and a couple of photos. Suddenly it's eased off but that was an impressive storm. You could tell it was on the severe side. I expect it'll pass completely in the next few minutes, thunder still rumbling but rain back to moderate. Well worth waiting for!

Loud crack of thunder just now! The regularity of the thunder and lightening has gone through fits and starts, sometimes just one rumble a minute if that, and other times, like now, a couple of strikes per 10 seconds or so :)

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Alex95 Contributor

Alex95

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  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and heat, North Sea snow
  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Expect a few naff photos in 20 minutes :)

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Norfolk Sheep Seasoned

Norfolk Sheep

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  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine. And storms
  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
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Good grief, we finally have (and I hesitate to call it this) early evening convection in the distance. Doesn't look like it'll actually do anything as everything is leaning at 45 degrees and about to collapse in a heap. Oh well, been a lovely hot day and if anything more humid than earlier!

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Deluxe Newbie

Deluxe

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  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
  • Weather Preferences: Storms
  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
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Shotgun crack of thunder again. What a strange storm! :D

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Costa Del Fal Experienced

Costa Del Fal

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  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - Heavy Snow Summer - Hot with Night time Thunderstorms
  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
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Its been so nice to have all these storms too without hearing the dreaded words "Pulse type" storms...those which are so naff compared to today. Infact after today, its all going to look a bit weak but I will always take more! laugh.png

These storms have been able to just keep on going since they began down here showing just how ripe the conditions were. Those storms still going but not at the intensity as experienced in the West Midlands, Leicester or Newcastle earlier.

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Buckster Enthusiast

Buckster

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  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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Considering I've never seen a storm like this in the UK I'm not expecting a repeat later on this summer!

Supercells aren't that rare in the UK though are they ? perhaps one event every 3 years ?

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Mark Griffin Explorer

Mark Griffin

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  • Location: Hoyland, Barnsley
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms.. Heavy snow.
  • Location: Hoyland, Barnsley
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The wind is really picking up here, the cold front has arrived at a guess. No chance now lol

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Cheshire Freeze Maestro

Cheshire Freeze

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
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Supercells aren't that rare in the UK though are they ? perhaps one event every 3 years ?

A heavy shower with a rumble of thunder is as rare as hens teeth round here, I can't even begin to comprehend a supercell.....lol

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Alex95 Contributor

Alex95

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  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and heat, North Sea snow
  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Supercells aren't that rare in the UK though are they ? perhaps one event every 3 years ?

Maybe, but I've never personally experienced a storm on the scale of today in the UK. It was comparable to the storms I've seen in the Alps and Florida where the whole sky goes green, and then BOOM!

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robt Contributor

robt

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  • Location: Hatfield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
  • Location: Hatfield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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A heavy shower with a rumble of thunder is as rare as hens teeth round here, I can't even begin to comprehend a supercell.....lol

There seems to have been about half a dozen in the UK though today.

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PolarWarsaw Seasoned

PolarWarsaw

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  • Location: South Staffordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: South Staffordshire
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Awesome day - Im now looking forward to the stats being put together (a report of som sort would be great) for the archives, so we can look back etc. Im only 20, but this is the most widespread severe day of storms I can remember.

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Slowpoke Apprentice

Slowpoke

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  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
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A heavy shower with a rumble of thunder is as rare as hens teeth round here, I can't even begin to comprehend a supercell.....lol

I feel really bad for you to be honest, I've been with family today near Fleetwood and we had a lovely cell pass over at around 12:30. Thunder, lightening, gusty winds and then torrential rain. The raindrops were absolutely huge too, as big as I remember them being in Florida storms.

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spears Newbie

spears

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Just coming across these storms now. Can anyone tell me where hail storms have hit (I know Leicester from the news), and if it's moving onto anywhere else? Looking for large hail that is damaging cars etc.

In Sheffield today we didn't have hail but just thunderstorms and huge amount of downpour. Pretty amazing to see all of the photos that everyone's uploading. :)

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Mapantz Maestro

Mapantz

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset
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I probably had the country's most boring weather today. But it was nice reading all your reports, and it was nice to share some images i managed to find. Well done if you got a nice storm! :)

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Deluxe Newbie

Deluxe

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  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
  • Weather Preferences: Storms
  • Location: Dronfield, South Yorkshire (S18)
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Gosh the Newcastle-south storms really intensified from 18:15 to 18:30 on the radar! No wonder the rainfall rates were so biblical!

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Paul Sherman Veteran

Paul Sherman

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
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Supercells aren't that rare in the UK though are they ? perhaps one event every 3 years ?

We usually get 1 every year on average, but this year we have had at least 4 that I can count if you add in the Bicester Twister Low Topped Supercell from May. I counted at least 3 HP Supercells with another 2 marginal radar looking Supercells, one near Cheadle and another in the Welsh Marches.

So maybe 5 Today and 6 for the year, which is way way above average.

Once you start getting Dewpoints in the low twenties and with a favourable set-up these types of events are not as rare as you think for the Uk certainly for the Midlands and Lincs where a long land track matures these cells, its just we have not had this type of Set-Up for years and in previous years they could have gone un noticed due to technology etc

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Neilsouth Experienced

Neilsouth

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  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
  • Weather Preferences: Severe Storms and Snow
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
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Why where there no storms in south east today? what conditions stopped it but allowed them to develop on the other side of the channel?

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