Friday July 21, 2006 A HP supercell formed west of St Louis MO and was moving eastward thru-out the day causing numerous reports of wind damage from St louis into IL as it approached The Evansville area the HP transitioned into a Derecho event and triggering new storms out ahead of it into southern Indiana. . Still generating wind damage reports as it moved closer to the bluegrass region.
As the storms approached louisville the system started to lose its punch a bit It was still producing areas of winds up to 60 mph but was losing streanth as it made its way into the lexington area with several breaks in the leading edge.
I went and got into position about 45 min or so before it got into the area . The line was close enough to see the darkening to the west as it got closer.
After a short time a shelf cloud like feature made its way across the sky with winds gusting to around 30 mph. about 5-10 minutes after its passage the winds abruptly died off as if someone had turned off a fan... thinking that was odd i was looking eastward at the back side of the shelf cloud now a good distance away when i hearda low roaring noise.. I knew exactly what was comming as i turned and grabbed my radio gear and map off the roof of the car i seen the wind and rain comming across the rear field of the school as i jumped into the car the wind and heavy rain hit like a truck.
The wind was making my car bounce since it was parked sideways to the wind and it had the sound of like being in a high pressure car wash.. twigs and other debris from across the feild i guess was flying by.... as i looked at the tree in front of the golf course it had some branches and lots of leaves flying off of it and instead of falling they went off on an upward direction from where they came off never really seen where they came down but had to been at least a few hundred feet from the tree. then after about 3-5 min it was over with a light rain and some moderate wind gusts .. I estimated by the look of the trees and the effect on the car it was a good 50 mph or so...
Photos of this event are on the KYTHUNDER website under July 21, 2006 at the following link
Ky Thunder Images
Damage in fayette county consisted of numerous trees down and a few power poles broken and lines down from falling trees.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Wed July 12 Event
Two rounds of storms today. the first cell moved to the north of my location by about a mile got some good shots from the south side with a section that could have been a small shear vortex.
later on in the day we tracked a bowing line of storms coming up from the south. This looked to affect the area so i got things ready here and waited until the line was about 20 miles to the south. No warnings were issued for this line only the mention of strong storms in the area.
Not having a vehicle today i was limited to spotting from my home location i went to the corner of Camelot drive and watched the darkening sky to the south grow closer. as it did i started seeing features that at the time i figured was a shelf cloud... boy that was a mistake.. turns out as it got overhead and looking southeast there was a very large wall cloud with what looked like a visible mesocyclone towering above it. looking back to the west there were some lowerings with very fast vertical motion that i was told were funnels just not very organized...
after snapping a few pics that way i turned back to the wall cloud and noticed what looked like a small dark funnel poking out of the base a few seconds later the cloud base around it lowered and blocked my view of it and the rain Heavy rain and hail started falling blocking out that whole side of the storm winds peaked at 40-50 mph with almost white out conditions for about 5 minutes then the sky cleared quickly im thinking the wind was from the RFD ... over all it was a good storm.
you can see the photos of both storms here: July 12 2006 KYThunder Photos
later on in the day we tracked a bowing line of storms coming up from the south. This looked to affect the area so i got things ready here and waited until the line was about 20 miles to the south. No warnings were issued for this line only the mention of strong storms in the area.
Not having a vehicle today i was limited to spotting from my home location i went to the corner of Camelot drive and watched the darkening sky to the south grow closer. as it did i started seeing features that at the time i figured was a shelf cloud... boy that was a mistake.. turns out as it got overhead and looking southeast there was a very large wall cloud with what looked like a visible mesocyclone towering above it. looking back to the west there were some lowerings with very fast vertical motion that i was told were funnels just not very organized...
after snapping a few pics that way i turned back to the wall cloud and noticed what looked like a small dark funnel poking out of the base a few seconds later the cloud base around it lowered and blocked my view of it and the rain Heavy rain and hail started falling blocking out that whole side of the storm winds peaked at 40-50 mph with almost white out conditions for about 5 minutes then the sky cleared quickly im thinking the wind was from the RFD ... over all it was a good storm.
you can see the photos of both storms here: July 12 2006 KYThunder Photos
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