Tuesday, July 22, 2008

7/22 - 12pm - Only .03" of Rain!?

I woke up and heard the storms last night, thinking we were in for a good bit of rain. Well, they pretty much missed us. My rain gauge reads .03" since midnight. Ouch.

Some areas around the region got dumped on, but the storms fell apart as they reached the Ohio River. Sure, there was a great deal of wind associated with what we had, but the rain just fizzled out. We're under the gun again today with a SLIGHT risk from the SPC, mainly for wind. Looks like we'll be dealing with a similar situation this afternoon into this evening compared to last night. A line of storms is forecast to build just north and west of us and slide southeast, with the possibility of large hail, high wind, and an ever so slight risk of an isolated tornado.

More posts to come on this today...

2 comments:

Charles Loring said...

Hey Ryan, we had a good storm pas me at around 12:00. It brought heavy rains and HIGH winds. We're thinking that here in Mid. Tn that the outflow layer has stabilized the atmosphere to an extent that it won't have time to destablilize the atmosphere for when the front comes through. Are you see in the same thing?

Ryan Hoke said...

We got hit with that storm at around 2am last night. It's been over 12 hours... I think the atmosphere can recover. We're getting some spotty downpours right now, with the brunt of the activity in the south where you are.

If it had stormed at 9am this morning, I think the outflow would have gummed up the works.