Thursday, February 26, 2009

Cold Front Charging Our Way!


Rainfall Updates as of 2:00 a.m. The news is terrific. Yes, we had a couple of loud booms of thunder, but no severe weather reports across the area. Most of our wind gusts remained close to 40 mph and the heavy downpours moved fairly rapidly through the area. We can consider ourselves likely and I think any flooding on the rivers should be minor.

Update as of 10:20 p.m.

Our first few rumbles of thunder have been reported in Benton County. A report of pea-size hail near Perrysville in Vermillion County....Latest Live Doppler 18 scan still showing everything is on track with our main threats being heavy downpours and wind gusts near 40 mph.


Update as of 10:00 p.m.


Thunderstorm line continues to lose intensity with no lightning being reported in Indiana as it moves across the state line. Wanda in Boswell does have some heavy downpours and gusty winds near 30 mph. I would not be surprised to see a few gusts in the 40 to 45 mph range between now and about 2 a.m. as this front passes through the area. There is still a small chance of a little pea-size hail but as of now expect a quick half-inch of rain along with gusty winds. Be careful on the roadways over the next few hours and then we will get ready for the big temperature drop!


Update as of 9:30 p.m.


The cold front moving our way does not have much lightning associated with it at this time. The number of lightning strikes across northern and central Illinois have decreased rapidly as they have approached Indiana. The severe thunderstorm risk area will likely be from St. Louis into southern Illinois and Indiana. Here at home we could still see isolated wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph, a few rumbles of thunder, and brief heavy downpours. I will check more data and be back!


14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mike I just had a flash of lightning here by the fair grounds and one rumble of thunder! Well, I gusee you know that when I said lightning! :-) lol.....

First one I have seen!

Justin.

Anonymous said...

Sorry Guess Typo.....

More thunder nothing bad just spring thundershowers. Rain is at 0.22" Inches and counting!

Justin.

Anonymous said...

I have had no thunder or lightning...but have had WIND! I didn't bring my hand held anemometer home....I should have....would guess between 30-35 at least.

C in T

Anonymous said...

Justin, I saw the lighting too and a few rumbles of thunder, and very heavy rain in Laf.

Teri

Anonymous said...

Yep Teri it was not much more then a little spring thundershower! Which is fine with me! lol.....

I do know that IL, had wind gusts to 40 43 and 45 mph tonight. This was around 11:45 to midnihgt. Might have changed by now!

And yes teri very heavy rainfall I bnow have 0.54" inches of rain in the gauge!

Justin.

Anonymous said...

I can now report a flash of lightning and some good thunder in Tipton....12:35am

C in T

Anonymous said...

Rain is at .35 since 5PM

C in T

Anonymous said...

ahhh I got to hear a nice long thunder a little while ago and it sounded nice but that was it just that one.
Renee in Laf.

Anonymous said...

Well, looks like the rain has stoped here in Lafayette and looking at my Radar we are pretty much done rain wise. Now we still have a few gusty winds which should really start to slow down here in the next hour or so.

Still a little Breezy this morning as you head out but not to bad!

Have a good night Bloggers and Mike. Thanks for your updates Mike.

Night All! see you here later on Today!

Justin.

Anonymous said...

We got a couple of rumbles of thunder right around 11 or after then the down pour of rain. This morning, it is overcast and 33. We did have some wind gust between 7 and 10p last night and it had a few things in my drive when I came home...nothing major tho. Teri thanks for the well wishes for my daughter, she is feeling much better, but still sounds a little hoarse. She was feeling much better this morning and today is her 12th birthday, so she was happy to be feeling so good. Alot of plans for this evening and need to get started on my Dad. Justin...thanks for keeping up on the weather for us. Mike...thanks for the updates and I am glad we didn't have a bunch of really nasty weather. MA in Rem...glad you got home safely! Richard saw an osprey just over by our pond..awesome sight!
Have a good day and stay warm
Jamie
Carroll Co

Anonymous said...

on my Day...not dad...typo...lol

Anonymous said...

Had to stop in and read the blog this morning. Off to a distress call! Have to babysit today (Not one of my things to do) a friends son is sick so ughhh...We had alot of wind last night here in Attica and we did have one loud clap of thunder and a few small ones. Jamie cool you got to see an Osprey... Seen on the DNR where there introducing them into Indiana again.

Have a good Day Prang Gang!!!
Richard

Anonymous said...

oh goodness a very fine light snow coming down. Wind has picked up a little. Wow...guess I have missed something My deck has a fine light coat of it. Hmmmm how much are we to get of this stuff. Richard have fun sitting.
Jamie

Anonymous said...

The wins last night blew over the big maple in our hyard and narowly missed the house,. Prayers answered and we are lucky to be in one piece!

Hans Henrik Kalm in West Lafayette