Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 11/06/16 onwards

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Thundery rain so tantalisingly close!

[Mapantz]

Not a bad day, a couple of thunderstorms, some decent rain and England won. Happy pantz! (some distant rumbles still going on)
      

 

[stainesbloke]

Lightning, thunder and torrential rain at Heathrow 

[ChezWeather]

Some heavy rain and T&L here again, roads cant deal with this amount of water at all, localised flooding as expected.

Been a good week for storms, lets hope that this is the starter and the main course is on its way over July & August

[stainesbloke]

Just now, ChezWeather said:

Some heavy rain and T&L here again, roads cant deal with this amount of water at all, localised flooding as expected.

Been a good week for storms, lets hope that this is the starter and the main course is on its way over July & August

Yes, these pulse storms are a nice starter. Hopefully July and August will bring sun, heat and some mega imports that last hours!

[TheToastPeople]

Was about to head towards luton but the cells there have lost its lightning, keeps spreading out on the radar though

[Chloe]

storms still here looks like going to be a good night very slow moving best storms so far

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Are these storms (or any new ones what pop up) going to go on into the night?

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LOL - the radar just answered my question

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Off topic a little, but I wish I was in the states in Ohio! 350-400 strikes a minute on what looks like a dangerous storm over there. 

[Stormyking]

Nice interesting day an dit was nice not to miss out on some of todayts fun  had 2 incredible torrential downpurs which was awesome, and at about 3:30- 4pm, The line that developed over the South coast, was a nice one tod, while the heaviest didnt quite reach I heard 4-5 cracks and rumbles of thunder  Finally off 6 thunder days

[Weather-history]

Convectively active day, here with torrential rain, thunder and even hail. Started off slow but kicked off about 12pm

 

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Oh okay now the rain band sweeps round. Great, amazing storm. Grrrrrr

[Frosty hollows]

We had one hell of a storm over us between 4 and 6. No idea how much rain fell, but I've never seen my street under water before. Waitrose in Wallingford took a direct hit and was flooded. Another business was also struck. Town looks a complete mess

[RobR]

The rain has been relentless in these storms for days round the Black Country and Birmingham. Some crazy scenes. I can't recall a week like this for some time where there are daily thunderstorms and not even due to heating. We larely missed the bulk in Stoke but there were some great clouds tonight.

[MrNooo]

42 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

We had one hell of a storm over us between 4 and 6. No idea how much rain fell, but I've never seen my street under water before. Waitrose in Wallingford took a direct hit and was flooded. Another business was also struck. Town looks a complete mess

I could see the huge cloud tops over your way from here, most amazing to watch, all the tops bright white, lit up by the sun. Only wish I had my camera.

 

 

 

[Staffordshire]

Had a couple of very heavy showers today, still no thunder this year

[Frosty hollows]

28 minutes ago, MrNooo said:

I could see the huge cloud tops over your way from here, most amazing to watch, all the tops bright white, lit up by the sun. Only wish I had my camera.

 

 

 

From that far away?Must've been a proper beast

[Costa Del Fal]

Wow, wow, wow is all I can say to this afternoon's/evenings events. How wrong was I when I said it was looking dry for the rest of the day here earlier. The complete opposite happened and probably became one of the wettest days ever recorded here instead...in the space of about 2 hours!!!

A very significant feature of our weather today was a constantly backbuilding rash of cells just to my south initially this afternoon. Late this afternoon this grew a little over us and from there on in, it just did not stop for 2 hours. The radar shows how localised things were but each frame constantly revealed backbuilding of high precip rates from about Dudley and down to Quarry Bank/Stourbridge/Halesowen. The rain drops were always huge throughout as well. 

It took no time for the roads to start flooding but it sooned turned serious with places flooding where I did not think was ever possible/likely. Just round the corner from me, children had to be evacuated from a care home as flood waters rose. And nearby me a culvert was just so overwhelmed that the stream which runs through woodland and thus, under the road through the culvert became so overwhelmed, the stream must have risen some 10ft at a rough guess and went straight over the road instead. 

The road quickly became closed and I spent the time making sure vehicles turned around. Some cars did get stuck. 

And then there was the thunder and lightning which was constantly overhead with some brilliant, loud booms of thunder. Each restrengthening of the cells brought renewed thunder and lightning for a time. It really was the most intense spell of weather I have ever known especially for the rain. 

Could someone kindly post the NW accumulation radar for this area?  I am really interested to know the figures. I really would not be surprised if this area manged ~75mm of rain maybe even more in just a couple of hours. 

Below are some of my pictures from the local area and also attached are some links with pictures of further flooding around the area. Note especially the flooding at Lye train station where the tracks pretty much became a canal!

 

Links: http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/14562695.The_Delph_in_Brierley_Hill_hit_by_flash_flooding/

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/emergency-services/2016/06/16/west-midlands-weather-roads-around-merry-hill-flooded-as-drivers-warned-not-to-travel/

In sum, this evening was so extreme I would not be surprised If I ever saw such an event again in this country in my life time. So localised but incredibly intense here. A lot of clearing up to be done tomorrow on the roads, pavements, gardens and some properties. 

 

 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Costa Del Fal

[Mapantz]

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[Frosty hollows]

The last couple of days have shown some amazing rainfall

[Costa Del Fal]

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Cheers Mapantz. Difficult to make out but some fairly darkish reds over us so 76-96mm possible, but if not quite probably the 60-76mm bracket. Incredible.

[Mapantz]

Not bad for 4 out of the past 5 days, considering it's not a Summer plume:

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[Supacell]

Most likely won't verify but GFS 00z is a stonker of a run for late next week into the weekend. Nice to see the storm porn though

[Ben Sainsbury]

I'm going to be in Torquay for the next week or two starting today, so hopefully we can see some crackers!