Still waiting
By Chris White From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local
So far we've missed the storms that have passed through the area. Several prolific rain producers formed just east of town and tracked away from us, but there are a few more cells still off to the north and west that may yet find their way to us.
I did manage to "chase" this afternoon in King George county, seeing only heavy rain and some lightning. I mainly enjoyed the vistas I was blessed enough to witness, including a southern view of two separate cells with a rain free base between them over the Rappahannock River valley:
Turning around to the north I watched as an outflow boundary from a cell over the Potomac River snaked its way toward me, made visible by a ragged roll cloud that clearly exhibited upward movement along its leading edge and downward motion along the trailing edge:
As this feature passed over me a breeze cooled me down as I waited for the boundary to interact with the cells to the south. I thought I saw the beginnings of a lowering but the storms were well on their way eastward at that point.
I headed home to check radar and promptly scooted out the driveway again to check out a local cell that was passing just to our north. It appeared to show a lowering from a rain free base back of the rain shaft, but nothing clearly jumped out at me:
All in all I enjoyed this afternoon's storms, but nothing that I saw gave evidence to the severe TS watch we were under.
I did manage to "chase" this afternoon in King George county, seeing only heavy rain and some lightning. I mainly enjoyed the vistas I was blessed enough to witness, including a southern view of two separate cells with a rain free base between them over the Rappahannock River valley:
Turning around to the north I watched as an outflow boundary from a cell over the Potomac River snaked its way toward me, made visible by a ragged roll cloud that clearly exhibited upward movement along its leading edge and downward motion along the trailing edge:
As this feature passed over me a breeze cooled me down as I waited for the boundary to interact with the cells to the south. I thought I saw the beginnings of a lowering but the storms were well on their way eastward at that point.
I headed home to check radar and promptly scooted out the driveway again to check out a local cell that was passing just to our north. It appeared to show a lowering from a rain free base back of the rain shaft, but nothing clearly jumped out at me:
All in all I enjoyed this afternoon's storms, but nothing that I saw gave evidence to the severe TS watch we were under.
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