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The strongest squall line I've seen in years came through at about 1:30 CST. Besides blowing over patio chairs, it toppled my weather station (last reading 32mph), and sent our 13 ft. trampoline across the street slamming into the neighbor's house (whom we haven't even met yet - hello! ). It broke apart along the way, took out one of their trees, bent up 2 sections of their rain gutters, and cracked some shingles. I can't imagine anything less than 60 mph is able to pick up that thing. It takes 3 of us to move it!

So ... how was your day? lol

Oh my Donna. What a way to meet the neighbors. :o

I supposed bringing brownies over is
out of the question, by now...

What was the "official" mph wind speed
report from your local mets?

Wow Donna! You said a squall line, I'm assuming you had a snow squall. I usually associate squall lines with winds like that with a severe thunderstorm.

Weatherwise it was fabulous!! Otherwise it sucked. Definitely no severe here!!72167 and hardly a cloud in the sky!

you can have severe thunderstorms with snow. We did here in January 1992 with frequent lightning winds gusting to 71mph and total whiteout conditions.

Steve

Aslkahuna wrote:you can have severe thunderstorms with snow. We did here in January 1992 with frequent lightning winds gusting to 71mph and total whiteout conditions.

Steve

That would be an interesting site to see.

Had severe thunderstorms with snow happen just last winter as well in the midwest over into the lakes and the OV. IL was hit hardest with this! I get a chance later i will post a link to a thread here about this event!

BTW Thanks for that report Donna. BTW did you get any of the wrap around snows behind the squall line???? Got a inch here overnight from it. Had some strong winds blow thru here as well but nothing like what you got when the front rolled thru last night!

It definitely wasn't snow this time, Steph. Winds were SSW and temp was 58º. And the radar at the time was really unimpressive. I was expecting to see a nice derecho signature, but there wasn't even any bowing - not even locally. Totally weird.

There was no mention by the local mets or newspapers anywhere, Annette. No other damage around town. I think it just hit my lot! lol What's even more weird is that the wx station and trampoline blew over from SW, and the patio chairs and ceramic lawn ornaments blew over from the opposite direction. I ain't even gonna speculate on that.

Man, if I had time I'd have called all the news stations and sent pics. But, dang it, I had to deal with the neighbors (who were really nice despite having a giant trampoline miss their front window by inches), then pick up kids from school, take them to the dentist, blah blah. Ya know the drill, real life interfering with the weather habit again!!!

king of weather wrote:Had severe thunderstorms with snow happen just last winter as well in the midwest over into the lakes and the OV. IL was hit hardest with this! I get a chance later i will post a link to a thread here about this event!

BTW Thanks for that report Donna. BTW did you get any of the wrap around snows behind the squall line???? Got a inch here overnight from it. Had some strong winds blow thru here as well but nothing like what you got when the front rolled thru last night!

Nah, didn't get a bit of wraparound.
Looking forward to seeing a link to that old thread. I can't recall that. Thanks H!

I remember reading reports about "thundersnow" and actually the storm that hit us here a few weeks back that went from rain to sleet to snow was accompanied by thunder and lightening.

isobar wrote:The strongest squall line I've seen in years came through at about 1:30 CST. Besides blowing over patio chairs, it toppled my weather station (last reading 32mph), and sent our 13 ft. trampoline across the street slamming into the neighbor's house (whom we haven't even met yet - hello! ). It broke apart along the way, took out one of their trees, bent up 2 sections of their rain gutters, and cracked some shingles. I can't imagine anything less than 60 mph is able to pick up that thing. It takes 3 of us to move it!

isobar wrote:It definitely wasn't snow this time, Steph. Winds were SSW and temp was 58º. And the radar at the time was really unimpressive. I was expecting to see a nice derecho signature, but there wasn't even any bowing - not even locally. Totally weird.

An impressive weather event with an unimpressive radar.

Here is a report from Evansville Regional Airport on February 20th at 1:54 pm CST:

Weather: Fog/Mist and Breezy
Temperature: 48°F
Dewpoint: 44°F
Pressure: 29.57 in. / 1001.2 mb
Wind: NW at 24 mph, gust to 37 mph
Visibility: 4.00 mi.
Clouds: SCT018 BKN024 OVC031

isobar wrote:

king of weather wrote:Had severe thunderstorms with snow happen just last winter as well in the midwest over into the lakes and the OV. IL was hit hardest with this! I get a chance later i will post a link to a thread here about this event!

BTW Thanks for that report Donna. BTW did you get any of the wrap around snows behind the squall line???? Got a inch here overnight from it. Had some strong winds blow thru here as well but nothing like what you got when the front rolled thru last night!

Nah, didn't get a bit of wraparound.
Looking forward to seeing a link to that old thread. I can't recall that. Thanks H!

Sorry to hear you didnt get any wraparound however keep your eyes peeled to the system comming in Mon night/ Tues into Wed perhaps.

Anyways here is the link from last years severe thundersnow! When this system had reached here it dropped a quick inch and did have thunder and lightening with it!

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1389

Spring conditions are not in place yet, but the atmosphere is rolling its head around, getting ready to look in another direction. [i.e., weather patterns will start to change] and you all know what "March" means

ColdFront77 wrote:An impressive weather event with an unimpressive radar.

Here is a report from Evansville Regional Airport on February 20th at 1:54 pm CST:

Weather: Fog/Mist and Breezy
Temperature: 48°F
Dewpoint: 44°F
Pressure: 29.57 in. / 1001.2 mb
Wind: NW at 24 mph, gust to 37 mph
Visibility: 4.00 mi.
Clouds: SCT018 BKN024 OVC031

Cool Tom, where did you get that info? I'd like to try to find conditions for about 1/2 hr prior to this. Thanks!

king of weather wrote:Sorry to hear you didnt get any wraparound however keep your eyes peeled to the system comming in Mon night/ Tues into Wed perhaps.

Anyways here is the link from last years severe thundersnow! When this system had reached here it dropped a quick inch and did have thunder and lightening with it!

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1389

Man, you're always getting decent wraparound! I'm just too darn far south. But I'll be watching out for that next system though. Thanks for finding that thread!! Now I remember it.

ColdFront77 wrote:An impressive weather event with an unimpressive radar.

Here is a report from Evansville Regional Airport on February 20th at 1:54 pm CST:

Weather: Fog/Mist and Breezy
Temperature: 48°F
Dewpoint: 44°F
Pressure: 29.57 in. / 1001.2 mb
Wind: NW at 24 mph, gust to 37 mph
Visibility: 4.00 mi.
Clouds: SCT018 BKN024 OVC031

isobar wrote:Cool Tom, where did you get that info? I'd like to try to find conditions for about 1/2 hr prior to this. Thanks!

I got the above information from the National Weather Service website.

Go to there homepage at http://www.weather.gov... click your location (or of course any location on the U.S. map, then on the next page a more specific area for that National Weather Service office) and finally the "2 Day History:" under the Current Condition report.

Thanks a lot Tom! I only found hourly obs there, darn it!
I'm 10 mi. east of the airport also.

My wx station is back up and running and ready for tornado season now! My husband spent a couple hrs yesterday securing it. It's not going anywhere!

Whew, spring is starting early in the midwest this year!! lol

You're welcome, Donna.

Yes, most of the National Weather Service reporting stations have hourly observations. The one here in the community I live in has reports issued every 20 minutes, but only reports one weather condition... "Fog".