Category: thunderstorms

Short-term complications, but long-term improvement

October 8, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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forecast discussion, thunderstorms

Today is “setup” day for the Mid-South ahead of the next major weather ststem to affect the area. We started off fairly pleasant this morning (temps in the lower 60s, some cloud cover, and generally dry conditions), but it will become very warm, quite breezy, and muggy by this afternoon, with a small chance of…
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Life cycle of summertime diurnal thunderstorms

August 20, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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gust front, thunderstorms

On Tuesday evening (8-18-09), thunderstorms erupted over the greater Memphis area, dropping flooding rains (due to very slow movement of the cells) and creating copious cloud-to-ground lightning. These storms provide the opporunity to describe the classic life cycle of diurnal (“heating of the day”) thunderstorms. The typical life cycle of single cell thunderstorms, or small…
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Recap of Tuesday’s storms and a “cool” forecast

August 19, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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flash flood, thunderstorms

As covered on MWN’s Twitter feed as it occurred, last evening the metro area experienced frequent lightning, seemingly continuous thunder, and localized downpours that dropped up to 2-3″ of rain (see rainfall estimate map below; click for larger image) and caused flash flooding in parts of east Memphis, more of the same may be on…
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Feast-or-famine rainfall on the holiday weekend

July 6, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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flooding, thunderstorms

The Mid-South (or, a lot of it perhaps) finally got some much needed rainfall over the weekend. After a strong of 20 days with no recorded rain and high temps in the 90s every day, a cold front settled through the area Sunday. Many areas saw a pretty good amount of rain, while others (like…
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Storms re-develop and move into metro Memphis

June 11, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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thunderstorms

Storms have fired over eastern AR and are moving quickly east across mainly northern portions of the Memphis metro area, though a few showers are also traversing the southern part of Shelby County. Expect showers and t’storms to continue to develop on and off throughout the day with a few possibly pulsing briefly to severe…
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Rain chances return to the Mid-South

April 27, 2009

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Erik Proseus

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forecast, thunderstorms

After a stretch of lower to mid 80s for 5 days in a row, we’ll get one more today, but the weather pattern will begin to change as we say goodbye to abundant sunshine, gusty wind, and very warm temperatures, and spring showers and thunderstorms take over. It could turn out to be a pretty…
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T’storms move through the Mid-South

October 7, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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current weather, thunderstorms

After a lengthy period of dry weather, I woke up this morning just before 5:00am to the sound of rain on the roof and thunder overhead! We had a torrential, albeit brief, downpour with 0.30″ of rain falling in 10 minutes from a storm that had developed along a warm front traversing the region. It…
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Storms rumble… and Fay is born!

August 15, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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atlantic, hurricane, radar, thunderstorms, tropical

Radar image of the storms as they head slowly east through the region. Many of these formed on an outflow boundary from storms in northeast Arkansas earlier in the day. Also, the Hurricane Center has started advisories on newly-formed Tropical Storm Fay, just as I suspected they would a couple of hours ago.
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Scattered t’storms today, but a dry weekend

August 15, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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rain, thunderstorms, tropical

Wow, what a week it’s been. Work has been incredibly busy this week and other stuff has taken up my free time, so that’s why it’s been nearly a week since blogging. A hefty change in the forecast from yesterday morning to today and the result is rain and t’storms around the area a day…
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“The Birds”

August 7, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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birds, radar, thunderstorms

No this is not about an Alfred Hitchcock thriller… Birds, bats, bugs, and all sorts of animated critters can be seen by Doppler radar. One time when it’s particularly interesting to watch the radar loops is when flocks depart from their overnight roosts at sunrise and head out all across the countryside. The resulting radar…
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BREAKING NEWS – Northern Shelby Co. gets rain!

August 7, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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thunderstorms

It’s hard to believe, I know, but northern Shelby County finally got some much needed rainfall! The radar picture below shows the t’storms as they moved east through the area. As measured by WXLIVE! in Bartlett, nearly 1/2″ has fallen since ~5:40am. I got more in 30 minutes than I totaled for all of July!…
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pics from last night’s storms

August 1, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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anvil, mammatus, severe, thunderstorms, weather pics

Just before sunset last night (8:00pm CDT), I took the pics below of the underside of the anvil from a cluster of strong/severe t’storms. Storms were located to the south with the anvil extending over my place and the pics were taken looking generally west. The sun striking the underside of the clouds, combined with…
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Strong storms strike parts of the metro area

July 31, 2008

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Erik Proseus

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flooding, nexrad, radar, thunderstorms

Many residents of the metro area are finally seeing the rain they have been wishing for for some time – and in many cases it’s too much all at once! Strong thunderstorms are dropping heavy rain as I type across southern Shelby and Fayette counties, northern and eastern DeSoto county, and much of Marshall county.…
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