Severe Weather Sundays
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The heavy rain today, tonight and tomorrow is really setting up a lot of places for some flooding.
It looks as though some individual storms may be able to organize ahead of the main line and pose a threat for tornadoes. Right now the highest risk area seems to be with the storms on the east side of Des Moines and continuing eastward.
Good thing the ground was dry before all this rain. It can soak up a lot this spring.
I see know have a second tornado warning for a supercell out in front of the main line of storms.
The main line of storms is turning into a beautifull looking forward propagating MCC (mesoscale convection complex). Looks like it is starting to turn into a wind event and not so much a hail event.
This complex is going to easily put down 2+ inches of rain because it has a massive area of stratiform precip behind it.
If you have about $80 bucks, the ultimate weather geek program is GRlevel3. It takes the National weather service raw radar feed and lets you manipulate it and see all the 'features' that the typical online free tools doesn't allow. For example, it will show you the possible hail, the size of the hail, where the tornadic velocity signature (TVS) is, Cloud tops, Surface winds, etc...
If you can loop back to around 5:30 pm, watch the outflow boundary from the Ames Cell come down and cause those East side of Des Moines cells to seriously strengthen in only a few minues.
The main line of storms is turning into a beautifull looking forward propagating MCC (mesoscale convection complex). Looks like it is starting to turn into a wind event and not so much a hail event.
This complex is going to easily put down 2+ inches of rain because it has a massive area of stratiform precip behind it.
If you have about $80 bucks, the ultimate weather geek program is GRlevel3. It takes the National weather service raw radar feed and lets you manipulate it and see all the 'features' that the typical online free tools doesn't allow. For example, it will show you the possible hail, the size of the hail, where the tornadic velocity signature (TVS) is, Cloud tops, Surface winds, etc...
If you can loop back to around 5:30 pm, watch the outflow boundary from the Ames Cell come down and cause those East side of Des Moines cells to seriously strengthen in only a few minues.
KCRG has had several good pictures of a well defined tornado on the air as well as damage photos not sure if they are on their web site yet. But they will be soon most likely.
Maybe the first inch or so of rain soaked in, but Pleasant Hill has 2.5 inches before the main show even gets here in 10 minutes or less. SLeepy HOllow's driving range is almost totally underwater and Four Mile Creek is bankfull already. Empty the trailerparks on the DM eastside !
GRLevelX Main Page
I wish my laptop could run the 3D (GR2 Analyst) one, so I have to stick with GRLevel3
I've got like 8 different radar features logging right now on a 2 hour time frame.
Anyone watching KGAN in Cedar Rapids? One of the meteorologists just ripped into the people calling in complaining about NASCAR and golf. I'll paraphrase.
For those of you who are calling in complaining why we aren't showing golf and NASCAR, I'm going to give you the addresses of the two home which received tornado damage this afternoon so you can go there tomorrow to help clean up and explain why you think NASCAR and golf are more important than weather coverage.
For those of you who are calling in complaining why we aren't showing golf and NASCAR, I'm going to give you the addresses of the two home which received tornado damage this afternoon so you can go there tomorrow to help clean up and explain why you think NASCAR and golf are more important than weather coverage.
In case anyone is interested you can watch kcrg on their web site
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Live Streaming
they are showing numerous photos of the damage at Pinicon Ridge park on their broadcast.
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Live Streaming
they are showing numerous photos of the damage at Pinicon Ridge park on their broadcast.
Yes after driving around we are reaching that point. It still drier than in the past at mid soil level but 3 inches of rain will fill that up fast too. We should be better off than we were last year though.
Looking at the radar, we're going to get way more than 2-3 inches of rain out of this thing. Looks like the back part of the rain is going to hit Des Moines just right, too. :sad:
