May 2019 Observations and Discussion

[OmahaSnowFan]

Looks like Nebraska and Iowa is going to be too far north for any real severe threat unless things change/slow down, and even then a crashing cold front coming in from the almost due north is HORRIBLE for any real decent severe weather threat. Storms just constantly get undercut.

[Andie]

We had the closest thing to a cloud burst I’ve ever seen beginning around 9:30 pm it’s still raining and will go through much of the night.

 

Unbelievable amount of rain in 45 mins. I’ll have a total in the morning if my gauge survived. This is going to be some year down here.

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Update: ..... We received 2.75" in about 40 minutes. Just an amazing downpour.

 

Solar Minimum is definitely at play here. Strange weather year in Texas.

[Tom]

This is wild to see footage of when the levee broke near Davenport, IA...almost looks like a Tsunami: https://twitter.com/i/status/1124418845136105472

[Andie]

I caught the story on the news, Tom, but this puts it in perspective.

I understand Davenport does not have a heavy levy system. Being a sizable city, I asurprised.

There certainly has been a lot of flooding up their way this winter and spring.

 

Everything here is at capacity and lakes are doing controlled releasing. We're saturated.

[Tom]

As blocking becomes more dominant across North America, I do anticipate a drier period the farther north you are across the Sub Forum (MW on north?).  We will also enter a period during the LRC that wasn't as active and with strong HP bleeding its way into the middle of the nation mid-month, hopefully that will aid farmers to get out and plant or re-plant in some cases.

 

 

 

 

 

The mid-month dry period won't last, however, and I expect another active period right around or just before the Memorial Day holiday.  Hope everyone is enjoying the tranquil weather this weekend back home and across the board.  Happy Cinco de Mayo celebrations!  BTW, I'm a big time "foodie" and absolutely love Mexican food.  Tacos and Guac all day....about to prep for a morning hike...adios!

[bud2380]

Are we ever going to see warm weather? Wow. I’m ready for some 80s. Some humidity wouldn’t be bad either. Bring on summer already. Looking at the extended GFS. Temps look to stay in the 60s as far as the eye can see. Yuck.

[Andie]

Happily, we'll be dry until Tuesday when rain chances of 40%-60% return through Thursday.

[SE Wisconsin]

Incredible drone footage of the flooding in Davenport.  I didn't realize it was this bad there!  Sounds as though flooding and will continue there for some time and could even get worse.  

https://youtu.be/gfoDG-COQ8k    

[East Dubzz]

Are we ever going to see warm weather? Wow. I’m ready for some 80s. Some humidity wouldn’t be bad either. Bring on summer already. Looking at the extended GFS. Temps look to stay in the 60s as far as the eye can see. Yuck.

I’m alright moving into the 70s, but I’m good on the 80s and humid. No need for that stuff.

[Tom]

An interesting week of weather is brewing up for the heartland and the GL's region.  First, a stalled front will likely produce several waves of precip and Severe Wx for Mon/Tue across the Plains/MW, followed by a strong "Cutter" on Wed/Thu???  Potential May snow in the Upper MW/GL's region??  The Euro has been showing accumulating snowfall for a couple runs now and its EPS is indicating a cooler trend which may in fact suggest some snowfall up north. 

 

Finally, a clipper...yup, a clipper system dives SE out of Canada on the southern periphery of the North American Vortex (one of the main Exhibit's of this year's LRC) so far south this late in the season due to anomalous high lat blocking for the following weekend.  Crazy weather I tell ya.

[Stormhunter87]

Watching these storms to the west riding the cold front. Main threat is hail sigh

[jcwxguy]

Nice if storms can get stronger before they get here

[East Dubzz]

Looks like we could get a nice rainfall this evening, assuming those storms hold together.

[Stormhunter87]

Nice if storms can get stronger before they get here

Yeah they are losing steam fast.

[Money]

NAM on drugs with this?

 

https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=nam&p=snku_acc&rh=2019050518&fh=84&r=us_mw&dpdt=&mc=

[james1976]

NAM on drugs with this?

 

https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=nam&p=snku_acc&rh=2019050518&fh=84&r=us_mw&dpdt=&mc=

Euro has been more in that direction as well.

[james1976]

1/2 inch rain so far today. Had sun earlier and got up to 73° and then storms hit and dropped to 58. Just a general light rain now.

[CentralNebWeather]

Hearing of damage on the west side of Lincoln, Highway 77 and Van Dorn. Tornado Warning in place. Storm looks ominous on shared video on Twitter.

[jcwxguy]

So far I saw the wall cloud and funnel cloud north side Lincoln, still watching the meso

[Minny_Weather]

I live right on the ball of the hook. Saw some overhead rotation but that's about it. Maxed out @ quarter sized hail.

[Stormhunter87]

Wow just saw the tornado warning hope our Lincoln people are doing okay. Got some good pictures of mammatus clouds here on the north side.

[Minny_Weather]

There was a 100mph wind gust reported just West of Lincoln. Wonder if that may have been a rain-wrapped tornado cuz straight line winds weren't showing that hard on velocity radar.

[Niko]

Gorgeous day today w temps in the upper 60s w plentiful sunshine.

[snowstorm83]

KLNK reported a gust of 87 mph.

[Niko]

Rain returns late tomorrow and continues for a couple of days b4 drying up towards the end of the week. Cool to chilly readings return as well. Lows will be in the 30s for 2 or 3 nights this upcoming week. No frozen precip is anticipated, thankfully.

[Stormhunter87]

Locals are saying that there is a tornado on the ground. High enough view point you can see some crazy features but no funnel.

[Minny_Weather]

Roof of a carwash was blown onto an arterial road in SW Lincoln. Where the roof blew and the lack of damage on surrounding buildings SCREAMS tornado.

 

Edit: Channel 8 says the roof came from Long John Silvers, and people are trapped inside.

[Hawkeye]

A small cluster of decent cells just passed through Cedar Rapids.  There were some nice cracks and a couple low-end downpours that totaled about 0.21".

 

Wow, that was quite the storm on radar that passed by Lincoln.  Very cool spin-up.

[Minny_Weather]

The C&L ice cream shop at Coddington & Van Dorn was leveled. Always sad when a nice mom & pop business like that gets destroyed.

[Stormhunter87]

https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Large-hail-and-heavy-winds-move-through-eastern-Nebraska-509509951.htmlcrazy video and reports in that article.

[Iowawx]

I got a decent 0.37" of rain from some thunderstorms earlier. WPC has heavy rain over Iowa this week so I am expecting some decent rains this week. Hopefully the heaviest rain occurs in our area. 

[jcwxguy]

Not my photo but saw on fb

[East Dubzz]

Got .27” of rain with what came through. Will be interesting to see how much we get during the week.

[Bryan1117]

Just a few sprinkles and rumbles of thunder today, as Omaha missed out on pretty much all of the action... was hoping for some decent rains to help my grass seedlings, however not much here once again. The severe weather is something that I am glad we missed out on though. 

 

Hopefully all of our Lincoln peeps are okay. Looks like you guys down in the Capital City took quite a hit today from that supercell thunderstorm. It certainly looked ominous here all afternoon, as that beast of a storm passed to our southwest.

[Minny_Weather]

Just a few sprinkles and rumbles of thunder today, as Omaha missed out on pretty much all of the action... was hoping for some decent rains to help my grass seedlings, however not much here once again. The severe weather is something that I am glad we missed out on though. 

 

Hopefully all of our Lincoln peeps are okay. Looks like you guys down in the Capital City took quite a hit today from that supercell thunderstorm. It certainly looked ominous here all afternoon, as that beast of a storm passed to our southwest.

Southwest portion of the city was the hardest hit, and as far as I know we don't have any members there. Just had non-severe winds and torrential quarter sized hail where I am. 

 

Another storm has popped off.

[Stormhunter87]

Got a buddy in Hutchinson they had a nasty cell go through there earlier. The signature was pretty intense.

[Stormy]

Got a buddy in Hutchinson they had a nasty cell go through there earlier. The signature was pretty intense.

I have a sister living sw of Hutchinson, but haven't contacted her to see if they got in on some action. I was watching those storms on the radar as well, & thought it looked close.

[Stormhunter87]

I have a sister living sw of Hutchinson, but haven't contacted her to see if they got in on some action. I was watching those storms on the radar as well, & thought it looked close.

He did say that there was a tornado south of them but they live on the very northern edge of town.

[East Dubzz]

Got a little more rain this morning, pushing the total up to 0.35”. Definitely a little more than I was expecting to get.

[Iowawx]

Additional thunderstorms brought my total up to 0.70” last night.