Severe Weather 2015

[SHOCKvalue]

20 some odd years ago I had an RV parked on some acreage over by Beaumont that belonged to my father in law. We were coming back from Eureka and got caught in a similar hail storm. They were about the size of those shown. Luckily I found an abandoned barn that I could drive into before the big stuff actually hit. The barn roof took a beating.

It was somewhere around 20-25 years ago that Wichita had the hail storm to end all hail storms (early 1990's). Cars totaled all over the place due to nothing except for hail damage. Roofing contractors worked serious overtime, and out-of-town, storm-chasing roofers flooded in. I remember that.

[ShockerFever]

It was somewhere around 20-25 years ago that Wichita had the hail storm to end all hail storms (early 1990's). Cars totaled all over the place due to nothing except for hail damage. Roofing contractors worked serious overtime, and out-of-town, storm-chasing roofers flooded in. I remember that.

June 19, 1992

That was quite the show. I think I witnessed even larger stones during the September 2010 hailstorm that took out the western half of Wichita.

[Shocker85]

I wonder how long does a hail stone have to circulate around inside those supercell storms to become the size of a softball? It is really pretty incredible they can become so large. I would think they might weigh over 2 lbs when they're that large.

[SHOCKvalue]

I think I witnessed even larger stones during the September 2010 hailstorm that took out the western half of Wichita.

Was that the one that left mini-crater divots on the greens of West Wichita golf courses? I remember that one too, but since it was much more localized it didn't impact me.

[1979Shocker]

I wonder how long does a hail stone have to circulate around inside those supercell storms to become the size of a softball? It is really pretty incredible they can become so large. I would think they might weigh over 2 lbs when they're that large.

They'd have to big even bigger to get up to 2 lbs. The one that fell in Coffeyville, KS in 1970 weighed only 1.67 lbs. The heaviest hailstone ever recorded in the world was in Bangladesh in 1986 and weighed 2.25 lbs. The largest in size is one that hit in Vivian, SD in 2010, but it only weighed 1.93 lbs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail

[Kung Wu]

June 19, 1992

That was quite the show. I think I witnessed even larger stones during the September 2010 hailstorm that took out the western half of Wichita.

I remember exactly where my father and I were. We were pulling into a gas station to get under the roof and a dude in a BMW completely cut us off speeding his ass off to beat us under the roof in the last remaining spot. Well my dad pulled in as close as he could to the side of the a-hole so we were mostly under the roof next to him ... but the wind was blowing from HIS direction and even though he was under the roof, his Beamer got TOTALED, with his front and rear windshields and side windows smashed while my father's Dodge Ram only got a few good shiners on the side of it! LOL Guarantee that guy was a KU fan.

It seemed post-apocolyptic seeing all the damage driving home. Almost worse than post-apocolyptic. Almost -- well almost like driving through Detroit.

[ShockerFever]

Was that the one that left mini-crater divots on the greens of West Wichita golf courses? I remember that one too, but since it was much more localized it didn't impact me.

Yep, that was exactly it. I still remember the sounds of thuds hitting the yard and meteors hitting the roof.

You're right. Definitely a much more localized event.

[shocka khan]

I remember many years ago getting into softball-sized hail just outside of Walton, Kansas. The hail was very soft (it was late June or early July) so even though it dented the heck out of the car, it didn't do much else. I remember watching many of the hailstones hit and flatten (like a snow cone).

Right after the hail got that big, the tornado came. There was a guy in an 18 wheeler cattle hauler immediately in front of us - he had his rig floored and in the lowest gear and couldn't move.

When we crossed the BNSF tracks just outside Newton, we were at a high point (where the rail line was elevated) and we could look back and see the tornado on the ground. It wasn't huge, but it was much bigger than most of the tornados I saw growing up.

[wsushox1]

Pretty conditional risk, but if a supercell can get discrete in the latter hours of the afternoons there's some pretty nasty directoinal shear and instability that would favor strong supercells with tornadoes.

[SB Shock]

Pretty conditional risk, but if a supercell can get discrete in the latter hours of the afternoons there's some pretty nasty directoinal shear and instability that would favor strong supercells with tornadoes.

What are u thinking about Saturday? It not getting hyped yet, but SPC is going pretty high on probabilities for 4 days out.

[wsushox1]

What are u thinking about Saturday? It not getting hyped yet, but SPC is going pretty high on probabilities for 4 days out.

I don't really like it as far as a tornado threat. THe low level shear is good but the upper level shear is almost due south. A typical tornado set-upp the upper level winds are more SWrly.

The probs are high because there definitely will be severe weather....hail and wind.

the 12z NAM just finished up and it's a huge outlier.

[wsushox1]

Large Wedge tornado on the ground in Lincoln County.

[RoyalShock]

[wsushox1]

Just looked at Visible satellite.....had no idea as much clearing happened as has happened (been in a bubble writing 15 page research paper). If the cap can keep things discrete it could get pretty nasty.

[Shocker85]

4:50PM Warned, strongly rotating storm taking aim on southern OKC metro area. OKC should be warned on this storm very soon. KOCO has live video of rotating wall cloud and tornados dropping from it.