Buckle up Hawkeye state for some weather 7/15
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This is going to test the QC weather bubble. RIP in pieces QC pizza…
Guess Iowa is the heart of tornado alley and not Kansas. At least this year.
Yeah. Straight line winds, downbursts, very heavy rain - even the D word might be in the works. Looks like the environment is going to be just right for any of those.
Northern IL/Southern WI got it tonight. Last night in was NE and far eastern Iowa.
In CR, I have my doubts about tomorrow. Tonight, The Perfect Cell was coming straight for us and was only 30ish miles away, but once again the CR Weather Bubble shut that stuff down.
Windshield got some drops...otherwise nothing. Let's hope that doesn't happen yet again.
Northern IL/Southern WI got it tonight. Last night in was NE and far eastern Iowa.
In CR, I have my doubts about tomorrow. Tonight, The Perfect Cell was coming straight for us and was only 30ish miles away, but once again the CR Weather Bubble shut that stuff down.
Windshield got some drops...otherwise nothing. Let's hope that doesn't happen yet again.
Yep I'm sitting in CR watching the lightning show to the SE. Without a raindrop in sight
I didn't know a wind bag was an actual weather phenomenon, but I'm glad that it is.
I don't recall seeing anything quite like it. It was a like a strobe light for a good 20-30 minutes.
CR Weather Bubble? Were you not alive in 2008 and 2020???
Hope CR has Mt Trashmore packed down good
I think CR might evade this one. Anything east of there is what Iowa State students would say "done F'd"
It's effectiveness is not absolute. No weather bubble really is absolute. But ask DM and QC weather nerds - they believe their metros also have a "bubble".
It is indeed there for CR. Far too often this spring and summer, lines of pretty intense storms have approached Linn County and split apart, skirt the northern and southern reaches of the county - only to have the line reform after it passes east. I dunno if it's the heat of the metro or some sort of locational thing as far as how lines/cells of storms cycle through their lifespans.
Who knows really.
Yes, the derecho happened - I sort of chalk that up as it being "too strong to fail" kind of thing. And it wasn't the first derecho to hit CR, too. I've lived at my current near Kirkwood address for almost 20 years now, and I can think of a couple different storms that packed quite the wallop. One did a LOT of damage to the neighborhood just west of Kirkwood Blvd behind where the Kum & Go is now (believe something like 2006-ish). Believe there was one in late July last year too.
But how many tornados can anybody name that truly hit CR proper? I can't name but one back in the 70's I believe, somewhere around the Coe College to Kenwood area of town. But otherwise they seem to skirt both north and south of town. Usually we get 1-2 every year that come close, but miss. There's been a couple weak ones recently that skirted the Kirkwood area that touched down around the C St SW/Ely Road area. One was not too long ago in June I believe, maybe late May? The other was the cell remnants of that fluke January cold core storm (the "Williamsburg tornado") that I believe was last year?
Saw both of those myself - hell, the January 2023 one, I saw the funnel cloud form literally right above my home. Both were weak as far as tornados go, but they did indeed touch down very close to CR proper.
Otherwise, though...nada. I don't remember specifically any recent (say 1990's to now) confirmed tornado that hit CR at all.
lol with parts of texas being w/o power for so long 3 hrs sounds silly, but im soft
Ames will be spared any touchdowns.
Some of us have been promoted to moderate risk...
