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THUNDERSTORM 0035
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Date: 26-08-2000
The whole night was a repeat performance of T0026. We had a few dissipating cells roll in first, giving a few C-Gs and C-Cs with evidence of Anvil Crawlers looking in between stratocumulus and high-based cloud ahead of it.
Then the back edge (south side) of the cell cluster came in rich in severe I-C and return strokes. The whole multicell was enormous looking at the radar and satellite imagery at the time. However as T0026 did, it rolled over and behind the Pennines nowhere near Macclesfield giving almost continuous I-C lightning with return strokes, which was a spectacular sight from a distance but merely appeared like a distant night-raid in a war zone. Like T0026 it had an average discharge rate of 6-8 seconds at times, however the display was a little better than that of T0026 overall. There was a brief downpour of rain in the Macclesfield area as it left the area and extremely gusty winds.
The same front (as it was now stationary over the spine of the UK), would later help the development of T0036 with its strong upper-level northerly jet adding vorticity to surface-level convection running in from the west at surface level.
VISIBLE 25.08.2000 16:21
INFRARED 26.08.2000 04:34
VISIBLE 26.08.2000 06:15 |
