European Thunderstorms Summer 2014

maquiladora

Mesoscale Discussion from Estofex

Along an older gust front, strong storms have formed over eastern Belgium, moving into SE Netherlands and W Germany, in an area of high CAPE (~2000 J/kg), along with adequate (20 m/s) 0-6 km shear.

Prominent convergence of low-level wind ahead of the storms, as well as their movement into an even more unstable air-mass with dew point temperatures around 20 C suggest the storms will strengthen further and develop into a bowing system capable of producing widespread wind damage.

The storms will be capable of producing very large hail in excess of 5 cm diameter, and extreme wind gusts > 32 m/s. The wind gust threat will continue to increase as the storms organize into a bowing system.

Given the relatively low lifted condensation level, that will drop further, and because of increasing low-level (0-1) shear, forecast by numerical models, there is some risk of tornadoes, which may be strong. This threat would be maximized with any relatively isolated storms that manage to form, or the southern tip of the larger system.

Super-Rush

Europe is on fire at the moment.

Super-Rush

From the same festival.

Harps

Crazy conditions in Germany at the moment, watching the Dusseldorf airport webcam when the camera got blown over, tornado or severe dornburst there at the moment with constant flashing

http://www.dus.com/dus/webcam/

redsteveireland

Harps wrote: »

Crazy conditions in Germany at the moment, watching the Dusseldorf airport webcam when the camera got blown over, tornado or severe dornburst there at the moment with constant flashing

http://www.dus.com/dus/webcam/

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Harps

Another view, looks apocalyptic

http://www.dus.com/video/webcam_dus2777.php

Incoming to Dortmund now

http://www.dortmund-airport.de/index.php?id=1170&cam=2&L=0

dublincelt

Harps wrote: »

Crazy conditions in Germany at the moment, watching the Dusseldorf airport webcam when the camera got blown over, tornado or severe dornburst there at the moment with constant flashing

http://www.dus.com/dus/webcam/

Absolutely unreal! Was only through there a month ago. Fantastic airport, weather was a lot quieter though at around 15 deg and dreary.

vickers209

=Harps;90766170]Another view, looks apocalyptic

http://www.dus.com/video/webcam_dus2777.php

Just gone down

Darwin

Dussledorf webcams just gone down...not surprised, just incredible images, watch out Dortmund! Looks like two aircraft waiting for departure at Dortmund, major brown trouser time on those.

Red Nissan

Seems lightning took out the webcam stream

Calina

Dortmund linked earlier is starting to look pretty interesting now.

maquiladora

Amazing supercell.

Calina

Red Nissan wrote: »

Seems lightning took out the webcam stream

all of the cameras seem to be down, even the indoor ones. Maybe they got a power hit.

vickers209

Calina wrote: »

Dortmund linked earlier is starting to look pretty interesting now.

That plane was fairly long waiting to take off with the storm coming up behind it:eek:

Darwin

Dortmund airport webcams down now too.

vickers209

Darwin wrote: »

Dortmund airport webcams down now too.

Still working for me

pad199207

Looks like the the NW Germany storm is literally the size of Ireland!

keith16

Incredibly tough conditions for the pilots:

Jpmarn

Go to the webcams on dortmund.de for action now.

keith16

Jpmarn wrote: »

Go to the webcams on dortmund.de for action now.

What kind of web cam "action" are we talking here?

Harps

Dortmund Airport definitely got off lighter than Dusseldorf, amazing lightning show again but the wind and rain at Dusseldorf was incredible, comparable to some of the most severe downburst footage I've seen from the US. Hopefully a few videos might show up tomorrow

RuthieRose

MikeD22 wrote: »

http://www.muenster.de/en/webcam_aasee.html

great view from this Múnster webcam a the storm approachs from Dortmund

Edit: this was what i saw

EPIC!!!!

Rougies

http://www.dortmund-airport.de/webcam.0.html

This is the best one I could find, plenty of lightning visible.

EDIT: Keep watching for some epic forks, just saw a couple there.

highdef

Jpmarn wrote: »

Go to the webcams on dortmund.de for action now.

Do you have a link? I can't find any webcam links on the homepage

keith16

God bless the internet. Watched this German Wings flight come in (circled in the webcam view). No dram thankfully.

Jpmarn

keith16 wrote: »

What kind of web cam "action" are we talking here?

Talking about the dortmund.de webcams there were frequent lightening showing up. But the thunder might be well over in the area by now as the storm moves eastward.

keith16

Here was that German Wings approach path. Sorry, last post on this.

Super-Rush

From the festival again.

keith16

Super-Rush wrote: »

From the festival again.

Oh my god! :eek:

They have a tent stage! :pac:

Seriously tho, that looks incredibly dangerous, hope no-one is hurt.

stooge

keith16 wrote: »

God bless the internet. Watched this German Wings flight come in (circled in the webcam view). No dram thankfully.

captured this a few mins ago from the same camera. some mad strikes going off.

redsteveireland

Grab from Dortmund