News DetailStorms intensifying rapidly in Alberta!
Posted At: July 19, 2007 @ 6:04 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
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As seen above, storms are intensifying rapidly all around Edmonton, AB, with the best looking storm just west of Edson, AB. This storm is showing some supercellular characteristics, and poses the highest tornado threat at this time. This storm should track just west of Whitecourt, AB over the next few hours. Meanwhile, storms are initiating on a boundary/dryline southeast of Edmonton as well, southwest of Wainwright...even though these storms are east of the best dynamics, they will also have a chance to become severe. Stay tuned for updates!
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I like the looks of this! That line popped up right between wetaskawin and wainwright. Comin right for us!
Lets go downtown and do a shot every time something breaks 45k.
Wow just heard the forecast for manitoba for the next few days 36 tomorrow 37 for both sat and sun....:-S
Didnt take that long for the cell near edson to get big ...wow
Alberta
Severe thunderstorm watch for Airdrie-Cochrane-Olds-Sundre
Severe thunderstorm watch for City of Edmonton-St. Albert-Sherwood Park
Severe thunderstorm watch for Cypress Hills Provincial Park-Foremost
Severe thunderstorm watch for Drayton Valley-Devon-Rimbey-Pigeon Lake
Severe thunderstorm watch for Drumheller-Three Hills
Severe thunderstorm watch for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville-Redwater-Smoky Lake
Severe thunderstorm watch for Hanna-Coronation-Oyen
Severe thunderstorm watch for Hinton-Grande Cache
Severe thunderstorm watch for Leduc-Camrose-Wetaskiwin-Tofield
Severe thunderstorm watch for Lloydminster-Wainwright-Vermilion-Provost
Severe thunderstorm watch for Medicine Hat-Bow Island-Suffield
Severe thunderstorm watch for Red Deer-Ponoka-Innisfail-Stettler
Severe thunderstorm watch for Rocky Mountain House-Caroline
Severe thunderstorm warning for Slave Lake
Severe thunderstorm watch for Slave Lake
Severe thunderstorm watch for Spruce Grove-Morinville-Mayerthorpe-Evansburg
Severe thunderstorm warning for Westlock-Barrhead-Athabasca
Severe thunderstorm watch for Westlock-Barrhead-Athabasca
Severe thunderstorm watch for Whitecourt-Edson-Fox Creek-Swan Hills
Severe thunderstorm watches are now in affect for much of Southwestern - Western Saskatchewan.
Thunderstorms forming in Alberta may move into portions of western Saskatchewan this evening.
A moist unsettled airmass is producing thunderstorms in eastern Alberta. Some of these storms could become severe and may drift into western Saskatchewan later this evening or overnight.
Reed, with winds heading NorthEastern there is little to no chance of any storms drifting even close to Southwest Sask. Why is EC putting these watches in affect when their main threat of Calgary-Edmonton area is where they should be monitoring for conditions.
Another cell sw of edmonton
a new storm just popped up north of Nordegg looks like some trying to pop north of Calgary.
new towers north of Calgary in the last 5 min
One near olds and one starting to form between settler an drum heller
These barely visible storms will get big and ride the QE2 all the way to Edmonton yeehaw
a cough north of Calgary, may explode any minute now,
Several Cells are now developing south of Medicine Hat making there way Northeastern. Medicine Hat has already been subject to large rain drops lasting several moments at a time. These storms are expect to dissipate before they make there way east in Saskatchewan and North to CavenDish
Bring on the heat.. but only if it means supercells please haha.
Storm east of Medicine Hat is lookin ugly !
This MIGHT just be the storm i've wanted if one hits :)If it does i will TRY to get some film of it.
Golf Ball hail reported near Hughenden
insane cells develloping south of medicine hat.
The cough was a hack, The tower by olds fell.
Now with it all downwind of Edmonton and Calgary I suspect storms may not fire up until 7 or 8pm and may arrive in
Edmonton at sunset.
If storms move in @ night I plan on setting up at the Wetaskiwin wall mart as the lights are bright enough to see the hail, downpours etc. But if the power fails the lightning must be intense enough to illuminate everything.
Sorry not medicine hat, south of vermillion.This could be crazy if the cell south of vermillion hits, if it does it will be most likely 10-10:30pm
Wainwright is in for it Look at the massive super cell moving in.
Damage reports likely for Wainwright
WOW look at the cell by Wainwright... can see the huge clouds from edmonton...but we are missing all the action like normal.
Very impressive supercell ESE of Grand Prairie. Keeping my eye on that one...
Severe Weather Warnings have now be issued for Southwest Saskatchewan
Watching Radar, I personally believe that these cells will Dissipate before they get worse. Keep monitoring local weather conditions and be ready for severe weather developing in your area.
Storm south of vermillion hit 50,000 feet with golf ball sized hail, moving north west.
Northwest of vermillion....is that Barrhead, Athabasca area?
Anytime now and the storm will be in Wainwright.. So this is what they mean by the "calm before the storm"
Why does like every canadian station favour fricken east canada...EC talks about Ontraio for like 200 hours and then alberta for like 2 min.. its like "yah theres some stuff in alberta...off to ontario now" makes me mad
Just got in to check what we had missed on for chasing. Unfortunately, the storms are about as far away from any radar as possible, so it's hard to tell what's going on. Several of them look pretty good, though. The one north of coronation appears to be a monster. Really wish Reed and I were there. Theres a couple north of Oyen that could be interesting as well. What an incredible setup for supercells in Canada. Surface winds are extremely backed (ESE) with dewpoints in the mid to upper sixties common east of the bulging front/dryline. Even if upper level winds are southerly, there should be enough turning for a few decent twisters with the amount of CAPE that is available. I hope everyone in the path of these storms is keeping a close eye to the sky.
Dontcha know Mike? Ontario is the centre of the universe!
:-)
(It bugs the hell out of me too)
radar echoes coming over the mountains near Calgary
this might trigger storms north of Calgary
Also I have work at 5:00am tomorrow morning so I prefer the storms hit Wetaskiwin before midnight.
The last big storm hit at 2AM BOOOOOH
I slept of the job the next day(shh my boss doesn't know)
Joel
Are any of those developing cells south of Medicine Hat anything to worry about? Radar continues to show them developing then dissipating consecutively. Not sure really what they are doing?
This storm sucks! for Edmonton and area!!!
Strange thing on carvel radar near drayton valley. I have seen these before. they seem to indicate storm formation
Your right Mike, I can see it from my deck near Carvel, large tower!
Cameron:
Be patient.
Remember the great storm of august 22 2006. The storm formed after EC dropped the warnings.
This is what I see. Look toward Airdrie and olds as some tower trying to go. something over banff is less than an hour from colliding with the hot air. we'll see
Echoes south of red deer. possible cell for red deer soon.
Maybe I should set up at tim hortens if storms last into the am I'll need my double double
Carvel clouds broke apart, nothing!
Any time now and something big should happen.
Southern Sask's looking good on Sunday Afternoon/Evening for stuff. Anyone else concur?
Joel how is it in Wainwright
hey gang...im back and its fair to say....we got skunked.
for some reason it was all east..way east of edmonton...its a monster over wainwright. way into the jet stream...nice round large top head to it. this is alberta...its happened before...it will happen again . im gonna go have beer now.
Yah sorry to hear that dale, where did you go?
Watch ended south of Edmonton
This is a sigh that the oppressive heatwave is fighting back and may not move east like in the forecast
my interpretation is as follows for Edmonton.
Friday. hot and humid
Sat. hot and humid
Sun. hot and humid
It may even Take a WINTER STORM to stop the bloody heat.
But sadly such dose not happen till October
Well thats sucks Mike R. maybe we will get s storm then...since edmonton has a Super Forcefield around it!
(The other Joel) It's just starting to rain steadily with some lightning. Other than that, I'm still waiting for it to hopefully come through. EC radar has it bypassing Wainwright to the west (as of right now)
i was south west east and north....wetaskawin athabasca an hour west of edmonton, and vegerville, viking...looked everywhere...most of the storms arnt even anviling... the towers go to a certain hieght then stop and whisp out.
Duuude, I think its all sticking east. Hopefuly more pop up near Edmonton.
yah i noticed Dale, the one by wainwright was anviling when i saw it... it looks huge form edmonton
ive never seen conditions so right more than today...well twice..in 87 and 3 years ago..but this is an alberta thing.. is why we dont get more per year..the unseen alberta disadvantage lol
Yah man i was so excited this morining..all for nothing, i also need a beer to, maybe 2 or 3
Were there any reported tornadoes?
due to the formation of a new high pressure in southern Alberta I am giving this advisory.
Alberta will have the hottest July on record averaging 8 degrees C above normal.
This morning as an example of the heat and humidity generating severe storms even in the early morning.
If storms can't form at all then it is high pressure.
Does anyone know if theres a likelyhood of storms in north edmonton tonight? I want to at least see something go down.
From what was said on the news, there's a possibility of another line of storms moving off of the mountains/foothills and head towards the Edmonton region later tonight
not likely arron.
jy...none so far .
mike and mike r, yes and you bet your arse.
If it wasn't for the humidity we would have forest fires that make California look like a small fire pit compared to the apocalyptic fires here.
So I thank the muggy weather for keeping out beautiful Alberta forests from burning to a crisp
If the QE2 gets severe storms it will be the greatest screw up in the history of weather forecasting!!! If it already is't
My prediction? I bet we are all woke up to something huge tonight, weather predictions can't be THIS far off can they?
Kelly
If big storm hits they will not give much relief. The airmass is too moist to go silent.
And the air aloft is still very warm
I now agree with the new global forecast of continued heat.
The ridge will not leave but it will spread east and heat will bake most of the country
AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW OF THE TROPICAL ALBERTA.
as muggy weather will hit the grand prix of Edmonton hard
Air mass storms possible tomorrow but slow movers like the last 3 hundred. It is similar to the doldrums in the tropic. ridge will bring the low into the NWT. Good storm chasing on the tundra, LOL tornado chasing with polar bears....LOL
I curse these damn storm's for not producing a monster of a tornado.I dont drive so the damn thing's gotta come to my lazy azz lol.
Low pressure is going toward the arctic may of pushed even hotter air in.
Hey everyone, Im about to head to bed but I would like to say a few things to that Ben guy.
Ben you were right about some of the thing you said in your earlier post, but I was also right. Im only 15 and I still have ALOT to learn about these things!!
(yawns) Im tired good night everyone.
the first thing chasing teaches you is humility.. and we should all practice that.
Is there something popping up on radar between red deer and wetaskiwin?
Is there something popping up on radar between red deer and wetaskiwin?
I bet there were at least a few tornadoes that touched down with those supercells in southeast AB, and maybe with the supercells that developed W and NW of Edmonton. We'll never know because there are not enough storm chasers in Canada!
I just got back to the computer, and watched the radar loop...that supercell near Coronation looked INCREDIBLE for awhile. Does anyone know if any tornado warnings were issued?
The next possible event looks like central SK into the lake region of manitoba on Saturday...I'm just now checking the new model output.
Dale...did you head after those cells to your east today? Probably would have been tough to catch!
Reed: keep me posted if the models are lookin good the central sk Manitoba drive I can handle! LOL And the wife may let me GRR lol If the models are lookin good let me know I will head that way !
Lisa:
There is some cloud in that area but is may just be tropical showers
Some lightning in lloydminster now. wind is really warm and blowing hard. th wind seems to be going the opposite way of the clouds now. see hat happends
reed i posted on the next sight