Storm Reports - Thursday 12th August 2004

[du_snow]

Had pink lightning, major flooding and loads of road spray driving back through South Wales an hour or so ago.

[Kent Snow]

Whilest not keeping a tally chart I'd estimate hearing around ten rumbles of thunder now. Two of which were extremely loud and sounded directly above my house.

[WeatherGod]

Thunder and lightning continued until 1.45ish...... Very loud indeed.

[Jackfrost]

It does look like some parts of South Wales have had it bad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3559152.stm

Many of the places in there are within 2 miles of me.

Meanwhile, cloud is increasing to my SW with a distant rumble of thunder...

[1goodtern]

Thundery downpour here in woking, surrey

[DeathStyler]

Heavy rain and thunder just started here in the east mids, darker clouds moving in so hopefully torrential rain may be on the cards! Keep you posted.

[Martin R]

Heavy rain and thunder every 40 secs or so not seen no lightning

[Scotty12]

Raining quite hard here in NW London, had a few rumbles of thunder in the distance, and some lightning. Not much else though!!

[DeathStyler]

Been going around 10mins for the current storm. Rain going from torrential to heavy all the time now, with thunder still occasional.

Rain seems worse now, and flooding is starting to occur outside my front door on my drive, and the outside road.

After only 10 mins this means flooding could get much worse, as according the current 1400 radar much more showers often heavy are only just starting to hit the midlands.

We got storms a few days ago with pretty bad flooding, but there seems to be a chance of something more this afternoon as the showers seem slow moving too!

[Thunder]

Things starting to develop here.. loads of convection all over the place, no anvils so either they havent hit the inversion layer or the cap's busted.

[warden]

Second storm of the afternoon just kicked off, thunder is very loud.

[Thunder]

send it this way then

[Cloudbuster]

Hello everyone

New to the site and not sure what the best thread for reportong current observations are.

I am in an elevated position in the West Midlands with a view from N around to SW. (M5 J2)

Lots of convective activity observed over the passed hour. Sky now fairly grey, difficult to assess vertical activity because of amount of cloud.

Increasing amounts of thunder heard over past half hour. Freq and volume; no lightning observed yet. Wind Increasing, currently Dry here at present, but raining over Birmingham. and headfing this way. Looks like a stormy afternoon in store.

[Kent Snow]

Another Shower just passed over head, with around three rumbles of thunder. Turning out to be a good day. Alas still no lightning though. :?

[Cloudbuster]

Cell Update

Pretty decent size sell with heavy precipitation, and electrical activity has just passed directly over. (15.45 local) 3-4 lighting discharges per minute at peak with very loud thunder. Most lightning appears to be air to air, though some fork seen.

Moving at a reasonable speed NW ( along the M6 North towards wolverhampton)

Please note that the UK live lightning radar appears to show the activity slightly to far NW. Plenty more to come I think!!

[lightningminx]

I've been watching the dark cloud roll in.

Just heard two rumbles of thunder.

[lightningminx]

flash of lightning....

nice long rumble of thunder.

[DeathStyler]

Things have now cleared away in the midlands, things in southern ireland and scotland are looking nasty.

The showers around the midlands seem to be dieing out, but I should still hopefully get a few heavy burts before the days out,

[Cloudbuster]

There is a large cell passing over birmingham now. (16.15) Reasonable amount of air to Ground lightning. Good Storm front clouds ahead of the cell. Possible to observe the dowrnward movement of air within this cloud; sadly no rotation!!

Looking clearer to the South now.

[Bottesford]

Some rumbles here now with dark cloud coming from the south-west...

[Sonia G]

Have continous deep rumbles of thunder....No lightning with it though

[johnholmes]

Ho SG

its on its way, just finished here plenty of lightning and thunder, no ground strikes observed and absolutely torrential rain for nearly 20 mins

jh

[Becci]

just had a pretty intense storm wasnt full on but we have been clipped by a cell, saw some of THE BEST CG lightening and fork over what looked like a wall of cloud, never seen golfers run so fast LOL but it was nature at its best.

[Hywel]

this is AMAZING!!! More thunder all afernoon with heavy showers, looks like the fun will start soon in North Wales Could this be the best storm season for the past 10 years ? for up here i think it may well be

[Bottesford]

Keep getting rumbles & light rain here- and there's loads of storm activity on the charts but its not got going here yet!