Weather Pic of the Week

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This is a drone shot of approaching thunderstorm Friday, June 27 in southwestern Tippecanoe County during the afternoon. This broken, pulsey line of storms did produce measured gusts of 62 mph at Fulton, 54 mph at Athens, 53 mph at the Grissom ARB & 53 mph 5 miles east-northeast of Michigantown. These were pulsey downburst type winds following multiple downbursts Thursday to Thursday night with damage, the worst north of Stockwell (trees, limbs, powerlines & grain bin down) & around the White-Benton-Tippecanoe line with house roof damage & heavy tree to crop damage. Gusts of the downbursts overall were 60-75 mph.

What goes up, must come down in these pulse storms in heat of highs 91-96 & 70s to 81 dew points leading to 100 to 114 heat indices. In the Thursday night instance, the cap weakened & plenty of boiling instability was left over with a few subtle outflow boundaries, so the lid pulled back, the storm just went straight up quickly. Strong, boiling updraft equals strong, intense downdraft then the storm collapses. Local power outages centered right over the downburst & radiating out from it due to the power cut were also seen.