Severe storm discussion 2 Oct

M.T. Cranium · 02-10-2010 11:49am #1

From the Boards weather forum ...

For the benefit of boards members in general, just wanted to alert readers in County Limerick and the northern half of County Cork that a cluster of severe thunderstorms has formed near the Kerry-Cork border and is moving northeast at about 20-30 mph towards a line from Limerick city to Mallow.

If you're in that region, we'd appreciate getting any reports and would advise to take cover if threatening weather approaches (from the southwest). We already have one report from Kerry talking about multiple lightning strikes.

Will continue to watch this and report on progress including any "all clear" if the storm dissipates.

Expect some torrential rain, frequent lightning and hail possibly of damaging size with this storm. There is always the slight risk of a tornado and the possibility of seeing a funnel cloud especially near the southern end of this cluster. At the moment it seems to be further north than the city of Cork but people around the south of Co. Cork should be on alert too.

(edit at 1:30 pm -- as the storm front has moved east the thread title has been changed to alert readers in Tipps, east Cork and north Waterford ... see the last post in the thread for updates)

ronnie3585 · 02-10-2010 12:01pm

Wow, this looks pretty vicious!

Thanks for the heads up M.T., yet again you're first with the important info.

Darwin · 02-10-2010 12:02pm

Some very severe looking echoes on the Met IE radar at the moment. Yikes!

sunbabe08 · 02-10-2010 12:06pm

is it possible some of that might be heading towards cork city??

Iancar29 · 02-10-2010 12:31pm

Ah! IM SO JEALOUSE!

LOOKED at the radar sequence and it got pretty angry at half 11-12! :mad:

Send it up to north duiblin! ha

Su Campu · 02-10-2010 12:33pm

skipz · 02-10-2010 12:36pm

Sounds like fun for that part of the country, wish i was there:D

Anyone for a storm chasing session?

WolfeIRE · 02-10-2010 12:43pm

looking straight into Limerick City from mid clare at 12.40pm

very dark...pic doesn't do it justice

M.T. Cranium · 02-10-2010 1:17pm

UPDATE _ 1:15 p.m.
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The line of heavy showers and possible storms continues to move northeast and in the general direction of Tipperary and then Thurles in the next hour.

Although we have no reports on the forum, the worst of the storm so far has probably been around Newmarket, Mallow and rural areas around there towards the east and northeast.

The tail end of the line could graze Cork city soon, at the very least it should start to look rather ominous off to the northwest as this moves past, but Cork may eventually get some of this storm too.

Eventually Laois, north Waterford, Carlow and Kilkenny may be in line for some of this storm in 1-2 hours.

maquiladora · 02-10-2010 1:21pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

UPDATE _ 1:15 p.m.
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The line of heavy showers and possible storms continues to move northeast and in the general direction of Tipperary and then Thurles in the next hour.

Although we have no reports on the forum, the worst of the storm so far has probably been around Newmarket, Mallow and rural areas around there towards the east and northeast.

The tail end of the line could graze Cork city soon, at the very least it should start to look rather ominous off to the northwest as this moves past, but Cork may eventually get some of this storm too.

Eventually Laois, north Waterford, Carlow and Kilkenny may be in line for some of this storm in 1-2 hours.

Thanks for the update MT. In Kilkenny at the moment, blustery but dry here at the moment. Keeping an eye on the radar to see if anything develops to the SW of where I am.

ellieh1 · 02-10-2010 1:23pm

I am living in the suburbs of Limerick city, and am waiting patiently to see if any happens here. No sign of any storm yet though, just had a rain shower about 20 mins ago but nothing major happening here yet!

M.T. Cranium · 02-10-2010 1:37pm

From the looks of the radar the stormy part of this line just missed Limerick city to the south and so you should be okay there. Sooner or later this line is going to pass someone who is on line and can let us know how it's behaving but as I look at the map it's mostly rural or hilly areas, and a few small towns in the path of it. I will edit the thread title shortly.

Su Campu · 02-10-2010 1:41pm

SIGMET issued for the Shannon FIR

EISN SIGMET 02 VALID 021044/021300 EINN- EISN SHANNON FIR/UIR EMBD TS FCST WI 40NM OF LINE N5120 W01100 TO N5250 W00650 TOP FL300 MOV NE AT 20KT

"Valid from 1044-1300Z. Embedded thunderstorms forecast within 40 nautical miles of a line N5120 W01100 to N5250 W00650, Tops 30,000ft, moving northeast at 20 knots"

maquiladora · 02-10-2010 1:43pm

Short, fairly heavy shower here a minute ago. No thunder.

Danno · 02-10-2010 1:48pm

In Portlaoise ATM, a brief blustery shower. Nice structure to the shower clouds, set against a light grey sky. A lack of sunshine due to the high cloud appears to be holding back the potential for rapid shower development.

jprboy · 02-10-2010 1:48pm

Thundery rain here for most of the last hour, no thunder or lightning, though. Lightened off approx 10 minutes ago and almost stopped completely now.

carlmwan · 02-10-2010 2:35pm

its raining pretty heavy here in meath any chaance of us seen a good storm

gbee · 02-10-2010 3:11pm

Seems to have fizzled out.

No lightening detected in Ireland inside 40 minutes as of time of post. Sun trying to break through here.

maquiladora · 02-10-2010 3:17pm

Sun is out here too now but looking at the radar there is still some intense stuff from tipp down to west waterford.

sunbabe08 · 02-10-2010 3:36pm

there must be some sort of wall around cork city, cause not one of those showers have come near cork city.

flutered · 02-10-2010 3:41pm

unreal rain here near the butt of the galtees

Lumi · 02-10-2010 3:44pm

Torrential rain in galway city at the moment

Mothman · 02-10-2010 3:56pm

Earlier I had heaviest rain since July 2007 with recorded rain rate of 135mm/hr.
gutters overflowing everywhere.

I'm up to 20mm for the day with hail in the last shower just finished

jprboy · 02-10-2010 4:01pm

Heavy rain again here since approx 15.30

redsteveireland · 02-10-2010 4:10pm

Fionagus wrote: »

Torrential rain in galway city at the moment

looks like that one is heading for Deep Easterly....

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Su Campu · 02-10-2010 4:20pm

Latest SIGMET shows states weakening

EISN SIGMET 04 VALID 021500/021700 EINN- EISN SHANNON FIR/UIR EMBD TS OBS WI 30NM OF LINE N5100 W01020 TO N5330 W00600 TOP FL300 MOV NE AT 20KT WKN

"Valid from 15-17UTC. Embedded thunderstorms observed withing 30 nautical miles of a line N51 W01020 to N5330 W006, tops 30,000ft, moving northeastwards at 20 knots and weakening"

Su Campu · 02-10-2010 4:23pm

The area of precipitation in east Limerick/western Tipperary is intensifying again and could give a few strikes soon.

ch750536 · 02-10-2010 5:16pm

Nothing here are all. Kids out playing soccer most of the day. Rained a couple of times.

bryaner · 02-10-2010 5:50pm

Coming down that hard in Navan that the sat is gone..

TheMilkyPirate · 02-10-2010 5:54pm

Torrential rain here in wexford town heaviest i've seen in a long time, Lost my sky signal and everything. No thunder though.

CarMuppet · 02-10-2010 5:58pm

At 14:10h today I was driving towards Inniahannon and hit a 'solid rain burst' around 1.5km on the Cork side. Up to that point there was no rain. You could see the road fuzzy in the distance due to the voilent rain hitting the road surface. Very weird. When we driving into it was like being in a car wash. Loads of people had pulled in with hazards on. I drove on slowly but it was over in around 750m !!!! Also on the 'other side' of this downpour the wind was very strong for a short while on the road. Then after another 500m the weather was fine again with dry roads. Never seen this before. Very cool though!

Severe storm discussion 2 Oct

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