Severe T-Storm Watch #698

[Formula260SS]

Broads Side Rattlesnake, just as I finished tying the boat to the dock it hit like a wall of bricks. Instant 60mph wind, spray up an over the breakwater like I've never seen, 4ft whitecaps and trees bending over. 10mins into it a Family in a 17' bowrider (with bow cover on) came by our cottage and thankfully made it to our neighbors dock. How they made it without sinking I have no idea

Nastiest storm I have ever seen out there

[Sammy]

This front came through around 5pm.

[Orion]

Wow, great shot, Sammy. Shure looks like funnel potential.

CLA, never did get your pic loaded?

[Pineedles]

I've been through a microburst in Center Harbor before and would not want to go through another. Boats swept out of the water onto shore, trees down, utter blackness outside with the winds howling. The clouds in Sammy's picture look like they are within 50' of the shoreline, can't really tell. Whatever, it looks scary.

CLA, what's it looking like for next week? Potential of more of the same?

[Rattlesnake Gal]

Originally Posted by Formula260SS

Broads Side Rattlesnake, just as I finished tying the boat to the dock it hit like a wall of bricks. Instant 60mph wind, spray up an over the breakwater like I've never seen, 4ft whitecaps and trees bending over. 10mins into it a Family in a 17' bowrider (with bow cover on) came by our cottage and thankfully made it to our neighbors dock. How they made it without sinking I have no idea

Nastiest storm I have ever seen out there

I agree Formula260SS, this was the nastiest that I have seen while on the island. There have been others that were more intense for the lightening, but this storm as a whole wins hands down. It came so quick. One minute the lake was almost flat, then the wall of super black clouds came along with spectacular whitecaps, which almost instantly turned into huge ones. Just as I got enough courage to go down to be sure our boat was secured well enough, the bowrider you speak of came by. I wish I had still been on the porch with my camera, what insanity! That family is so lucky to have made it to safety. The boat was hitting, by this time very big rollers. It was coming completely out of the water and tilting in a perfect way for the wind to just pluck it over. I thought for sure they were going to capsize. If they had, what could I have done to help without getting into trouble myself? After the storm passed, something floated by that at first I thought might be a person. Scared the daylights out of me. Then a 15’ top of a tree came floating by and got suck in our rocks. It was a cut tree that someone left too close to the lake. Boo!

Lesson one, when a storm is approaching, go the other way!!! They pass relatively quickly. If it is too late, find a dock or at least be going with the waves, not into them.

Lesson two, assume anything close to the lake can be blown or washed away creating dangerous hazards. Secure them please, especially big items like trees and logs!

[CanisLupusArctos]

Orion,

Yup, my pic is in the other severe thread.

Pineneedles, I think there is definitely potential for more of the same this year. Late summer is typically the peak of New England's tornado potential. Usually that's when the cold fronts of fall start ramming into the pre-existing hot and humid air of summer.

We have already had two "tornado" storms at the lake this summer: June 22, and this one.

This year, the cold fronts have been rolling across the nation all summer long, while the summer air quickly tries to replace its lost troops only to get attacked again from the north. As long as the cold fronts keep on coming and summer continues to reclaim its lost territory, I see no letup in the regular occurrence of severe storms. There would be a letup if the cold air backed off and allowed the summertime to dwell in peace over us. There will definitely be a letup when autumn finally earns its long-term claim on New England. There will not be peace on the border between the two air masses, especially when the cold side is acting as aggressor.

[Pineedles]

Not what I wanted to hear, but I feel as if I just toured Gettysburg so it makes it at least palatable. You should do network news weather. I rank you up with George Carlin's "Hippy Dippy Weatherman", for entertainment.