May 2019 Observations and Discussion

[East Dubzz]

Iowa City is going to get crushed and we get absolutely nothing here in Cedar Rapids.

 

The WPC rain forecast is seriously overdone. No way Cedar Rapids gets more than 0.25" with this pattern.

Isn’t it raining in CR right now?

[Iowawx]

Isn’t it raining in CR right now?

Nope. Just lighting where I am at. That cell completely bypassed me.

[Hawkeye]

Yep, not getting jack squat here.  The counties just south of CR are getting nailed.  Maybe by September we can get something.

 

It's possible that's going to be it until Saturday night or Sunday.

[Bryan1117]

Iowa City is going to get crushed and we get absolutely nothing here in Cedar Rapids. 

 

The WPC rain forecast is seriously overdone. No way Cedar Rapids gets more than 0.25" with this pattern.

CR dome??? 

[Iowawx]

CR dome??? 

Absolutely. Apparently, Iowa City and Chicago get everything. If you like watching weather, DON'T come to Cedar Rapids!

[Bryan1117]

Absolutely. Apparently, Iowa City and Chicago get everything. If you like watching weather, DON'T come to Cedar Rapids!

I feel your pain thunderstorm-wise so far this month. The last round of good storms a couple weeks ago missed us to the west and south, tonight all the action is to the north and east of Omaha. Stuck right in the middle of nothing-ville here in the Omaha metro. Tomorrow evening and night are our best shot still, however I am cautiously optimistic at this point. 

[Stormy]

[Stormy]

Storm is really increasing! Severe warning

[Stormy]

Worst I've seen in a year or more!

[Stormy]

Just getting crazy wind and not much rain! More to the north. Geez

[BMT]

Iowawx you gotta calm down man. We get plenty of storms. In fact we actually got hit tonight, just wasn’t that strong. I’d rather not deal with wind damage anyway.

[Iowawx]

Iowawx you gotta calm down man. We get plenty of storms. In fact we actually got hit tonight, just wasn’t that strong. I’d rather not deal with wind damage anyway.

I'm sorry but we just had a lot of heat and instability and the HRRR got my hopes up until the storms somehow went southeast and not straight east. 

[BMT]

I'm sorry but we just had a lot of heat and instability and the HRRR got my hopes up until the storms somehow went southeast and not straight east.

No worries. I’m hoping we get a few more chance over the next week!

[Iowawx]

Yep, not getting jack squat here.  The counties just south of CR are getting nailed.  Maybe by September we can get something.

 

It's possible that's going to be it until Saturday night or Sunday.

The HRRR has a good looking thunderstorm complex moving across Eastern Iowa tomorrow morning, but I don't know if that will happen. 

[Stormy]

A report of a building blown down 2 miles north of me. This severe cell just grazed me actually. Rain wasn't that heavy.

[Stormy]

This means now we don't get any more storms tonight because we missed out and the instability is gone.

 

I wouldn't worry to much because as the stalling front try's to move back norththe storms may be more north of the front.

[Stormy]

Iowa City really got the brunt, and now it's grazing me to the south with crazy c/g lightning there.

[Iowawx]

Iowa City got around 2 inches of rain in less than an hour and here in Cedar Rapids, I only have 0.04". What a joke!

[Iowawx]

Prediction: Those storms developing to the north will either miss Cedar Rapids AGAIN or turn out to be a dud. 

[Jaycee]

[Hawkeye]

There are wind reports of 60-70 mph in the North Liberty/Tiffin/Iowa City area.

 

I want a good storm, but I don't want severe wind to destroy the plants I just got in the ground.

[East Dubzz]

Man, really not looking promising here at all. This spring sucks

[Stormy]

My wx station shows the maximum wind at 66 mph! And it lasted so long. My sister says they have a lot of cleaning up to do with large branches down at their farm half a mile northeast. Just a lot of small branches n twigs here. The east sides of our buildings are plastered with leaf fragments as trees got a beating . Some of my rain gauges blew a little sideways, but ones that didn't show only around half an inch.

[Stormy]

Was to windy for me. Would rather have 40 mph & heavier rain. Never satisfied! Lol

[Hawkeye]

Line #2, same as line #1... all bark, no bite, barely missing south.  Maybe a couple more of these storms can get us up to 0.10" of rain.

[East Dubzz]

Lol, this line of rain is going to mostly miss south of here again... this is incredible!

[Stormhunter87]

A little thunderhead rolling in now. Pulled the zone away from us today. I will say a solid chase day today if I was wasn't with the little one all day.

[Hawkeye]

I wish I would have gotten my grub control on the lawn yesterday.  I wasn't sure if we would get heavy storms that washed the granules away or not much rain at all (need 0.50-1.00" of rain after applying the stuff), plus I ran out of time in the evening.  What we've received is in between the two extremes, the perfect light to moderate soaking rain for the grub control.

[james1976]

0.48" of rain overnight. This morning has the feeling of a cool cloudy rainy day ahead.

[East Dubzz]

Had a little rain this morning, but not much. Few tenths of an inch, maybe.

 

And that may be it until tomorrow evening? Guess there is a chance for some scattered rain still today, but what a dud this has been.

[Niko]

Cloudy and cooler today w temps holding in the 60s. Yesterday was beautiful as readings climbed into the upper 70s.

[Tom]

Yesterday's Severe Wx was a taste of this year's "Ring of Fire" pattern as the SE heat dome fueled the Fire.  This map shows the areas that got hit pretty good with training storms.

 

 

 

I know we have some members in the western burbs of Chicago that got hit by a Severe warned storm late last night that dropped 1" hail.

 

 

 

Cloud tops reached close to 50,000ft!

 

[Iowawx]

I got 0.54" of rain last night and into this morning. Looks like rain will continue for a little while. That is better than nothing, but I am still very disappointed about missing out on the severe weather last night. Hopefully we can get some severe storms tomorrow. 

[james1976]

DMX already mentioning that Tuesday could be a big day for severe weather.

[Andie]

West Tx is in the severe weather bullseye today.

That will shift to East Tx tomorrow. The DFW area may dodge the severe weather if we get morning rain to cool and “ cushion” us from the severe potential.

 

Mets watching this one closely. I just don’t want hail.

[Tom]

More late season snow up North???  Duluth can't catch a break..and them Yoopers!

 

 

 

[Hawkeye]

I'm up to 0.80" of slow, soaking rain.  Radar shows better rain organizing again to the west, so it's going to continue for a while.  We've had a lot of slow, general rain this spring.  At least this time it's not cold.

[Iowawx]

I'm up to 0.80" of slow, soaking rain.  Radar shows better rain organizing again to the west, so it's going to continue for a while.  We've had a lot of slow, general rain this spring.  At least this time it's not cold.

These rain events do provide decent amounts of rain, but it sure would be nice to get a good thunderstorm with some nice downpours. Maybe this weekend?? 

[Bryan1117]

Had some pop up thunderstorms around the Omaha metro this morning, not much rain from these though as the cells were pretty disorganized and were fairly small. Only picked up about .20 so far this morning.

 

The much advertised severe weather outbreak looks to be splitting Omaha this weekend, with the better chances today well to our west and mostly to our east tomorrow. I feel your pain CR peeps, however there are plenty more chances for severe weather in our future.

[Iowawx]

If some of those more organized showers and storms can hold together in western Iowa, that might be enough to push us up to an inch of ran.

 

It will be very important about how warm we get tomorrow. SPC has us in a slight risk, but after last nights massive dud, I'm not sure about it.