Category: Severe Weather

Jul 06

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A round of scattered showers impacted portions of north-central Indiana during the early morning hours.  Those showers have since pushed east and we’re now back into dry conditions (for now). We’ll watch the radar closely as outflow boundaries to our west this morning could ignite possible scattered thunderstorm redevelopment once again this afternoon.  This is just the beginning of a busy few days ahead as we track multiple thunderstorm complexes that have potential to impact the region.  We’ll watch late tonight and early Monday and again late Monday into Tuesday for possible more widespread storm complexes and an associated severe weather risk- mainly from damaging straight line wind potential.  Once to Wednesday morning we should note a drier and cooler air mass pressing in which will set the stage for a beautiful close to the work week.  Once to the weekend, a warmer and increasingly moist flow will return with renewed storm chances.

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Jul 04

Sun-Filled And Unseasonably Cool…

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Happy Independence Day!  Canadian high pressure remains firmly in control of our weather today and for the majority of the weekend for that matter.  As a result, look for plentiful amounts of sunshine and temperatures that will continue the cooler than normal regime we enjoyed Thursday.  Today’s conditions, once again, will have that feeling of early fall.  ENJOY!  A more active weather pattern will return early next week as we potentially have to deal with a couple thunderstorm complexes in the Monday-Tuesday time period.  Heavy rain and the chance of severe weather will return to your forecast Monday night into Tuesday and we’ll have more details around this as we move closer.  A cooler and drier regime will build in by the middle portion of next week.

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Jun 30

More On Tonight’s Severe Threat…

As we type this, a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been hoisted to include much of northwestern Indiana.  The concern is that the complex of storms, already responsible for damaging weather across Iowa, gains steam as it plows east and intensifies this evening.

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There’s no doubt in overall thinking that northern Indiana is at greatest risk for damaging severe weather later this evening and overnight, but we do have some concern that areas further south aren’t out of the woods.  Is there risk at being wrong in the further south idea?  Absolutely.  However, a look over the latest model data continues to suggest there’s plenty of moisture and fuel readily available.  Additionally, similar thunderstorm complexes have been known to “hook” south as they intensify racing east and short-term modeling has been known to have to play catch up at the very end in some particular cases.  That’s not something we want to play around with tonight, given what the potential is.  Will potential become reality here across central Indiana?  Big question at the moment, but one can’t be too careful with this particular situation as a rather widespread damaging wind event should expand in the coming hours.  Nowcasting will be key.  Should central Indiana get in on the stormy action it would be late this evening and overnight- midnight-ish, and after, for most.

Our best educated projection at this juncture would place north-central Indiana (a line from Crawfordsville to Muncie) and points north under the greatest risk for potential severe weather late tonight.  Damaging straight line winds are of greatest concern with this complex tonight.  Know that we’ll keep a close eye on things moving forward and suggest setting the weather radio on alert mode before heading off to bed this evening.  As always, have a means to get watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service.

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Jun 30

Severe Threat Tonight For Portions Of The Region…

We spoke Sunday of a couple complexes of thunderstorms potentially impacting the region today.  The first complex of thunderstorms is moving into northwestern portions of the state as we write this and short-term modeling is already struggling on the track of this complex.  Note the forecast radar, via the HRRR and 4km NAM, valid 8am versus the actual radar snapped at 7:30am.

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The first complex of thunderstorms will likely blow through north-central Indiana counties later this morning.

The Storm Prediction Center has outlined portions of the region under a slight risk of severe today, including a heightened moderate risk across Iowa, MO, and IL.  All modes of severe weather are in play, including potential tornadoes, large hail, and damaging straight line winds.

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The latest 4km NAM shows complex number 2 erupting over Iowa later this afternoon.

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This is the complex of storms that could pose a rather active time of things across Indiana tonight.

Moisture and energy will be plentiful, meaning storms will likely remain strong to severe as they push into central Indiana.  Additionally, locally heavy downpours are a good bet.

Forecast CAPE is to be around 3500-4500 J/kg tonight when complex number 2 is eyeing the region.  In short, this means “energy” will be plentiful for storms to remain strong to severe as they blow into the region.  Think of CAPE as fuel for storms.

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Forecast PWAT, or precipitable water, shows a ribbon of 2″ streaking through the central portions of the state and suggests torrential downpours with any storm.

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Bottom line, it’ll be important to have a means of getting your latest weather information and radar trends later this evening.  The greatest severe threat to our immediate region appears to be with a straight line wind component, but as stated above, we’ll have to be on guard for all modes of severe weather.

Now casting will be key later tonight as we eye another round of potential severe weather impacting the state.  While the first complex of storms will impact northern counties this morning, it’s complex number 2 late tonight that could pack a punch across a more widespread portion of the region.  More later this afternoon!

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Jun 28

Humid Weekend; Severe Potential Monday.

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A warm front is lifting north through the region this morning and rain will continue to expand in coverage this morning as the front lifts north.  Sunshine will then quickly build back into central Indiana this afternoon, along with plenty of humidity.  We’ll get back into the scattered afternoon/ evening “splash and dash” thunderstorm regime later today and again Sunday.  Looking further ahead, concern is growing about a potential severe weather event here Monday and we’ll have an additional post later this weekend discussing this potential in more detail.  For now, plan to pay special close attention to Monday’s forecast with damaging severe weather potential in play (all modes of severe weather at hand).  We still forecast a MUCH cooler, drier regime building in mid week and remaining in place through the upcoming holiday weekend.

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