The image above is showing the spot of the rotation!!!! Southern benton county heading east into northern Tippecanoe, and southern white counties!! Still rotating along with LARGE hail of possible golf ball sized and HEAVY HEAVY rainfall at a rate of 14" to 16" inches an hour!!

STAY TUNED AND GET TO YOUR SAFE SPOTS IF IN THESE AREAS!!

GET TO YOUR SAFE SPOT!!!

BREAKING UPDATE!!!!!

We have a VERY strong cell in the Southern Benton, county area right now moving east... This cell is showing signs of rotating! Aldo VERY heavy rainfall and Marble to golf ball sized hail is possible! This cell will be heading into the Northern Tippecanoe county area and also the extreme southern white county area and then into Carroll county before long...

AGAIN IT IS ROTATING!!!! If your in these areas go ahead and be ready to get to your safe spots!!!!

Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for most of the WLFI viewing area.

We have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for the whole WLFI viewing area, The only viewing area counties not in this watch are the following..... Benton, Newton, Jasper, White, and Carroll, counties. Everyone else is in this watch from now until 11:00pm EDT tonight.

I will have a more detailed update coming your way in just a few so stay tuned!

Things Working Out As Expected! Thank God!

Hey bloggers. Well the good news is everything turned out okay! We had not one but two storms try to effect the area. But the good news is the second one lost it's power as it moved into our more stable air as expected. Take a look at this radar image below. This was taken at 9:20pm EDT. You can see the first storm that went through the area. This is the one that really effected the Warren, Fountain, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, and Clinton, county areas. Pretty much anyone north of Lafayette, was only seeing some showers and light thundershowers. Now we did have some Doppler indicated pea sized hail showing up in areas of Tippecanoe, Fountain, Montgomery, and Clinton, county however we have not had any real reports! But we did see many high wind reports around the area. I seen a lot of bowing with this first storm and all these reports confirm it!! Take a look at this below.

LAFAYETTE TIPPECANOE IN
LIVE WALNUT TREE DOWNED NEAR COUNTY ROADS 1300 SOUTH AND 400 EAST.

CRAWFORDSVILLE MONTGOMERY IN
A FEW TREES DOWN ON CITY STREETS OF MEDIUM SIZE

FRANKFORT CLINTON IN
60 MPH Wind Recorded
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Just crazy... That's the only word that comes to mind. The good thing about this first round of storms that went through our area is they quickly made things more stable. We had lifted index (LI) back up to +1.2 after these storms went through. This is pretty good. Any LI from -3 and lower is when things really can get ugly storm-wise. This is why I was thinking that even though there was severe thunderstorm watches out in IL, with the second round of storms I still figured they would weaken as they moved closer to our more stable air. Which thank goodness it worked out that way! ;)

Now it seems we have had rain chances just about everyday this week?!?! Is that going to continue to start the work week?? Well, I hate to break it to everyone but I gotta keep scattered rain / thundershower chances in the forecast for the first few days of the work week. Take a look at your two day forecast I put together below.Sure we're finally getting the pool like temperatures in the near 90 range however the rain chances just keep coming along with it. Well, this time we can thank a low pressure system that is taking it's sweet old time moving across the area. Yes, because of this low I cannot keep out the rain / thundershower chances. Now the good thing is I'm not going to call for an all day total wash out! I think we will see breaks. But still keep the umbrella handy! ;) This is going to be the story for the next couple days at least!

I'm also looking at the temperatures for the week ahead and if you like the hot summer weather then you'll like these temperatures! I have them ranging between the upper 80s and the low 90s!!!! Now all we need is a little more sun and we can hit the pools! :)

Have a great day bloggers. I will be back here if any weather breaks loose! ;)

God Bless.

First round has passed. Will the second round be as bad?

Okay bloggers. The severe weather is now starting to move into Boon county and out of the WLFI viewing area. Even Clinton, county is looking good at this time. The rest of the WLFI viewing area just has to worry about some light to moderate rainfall. Benton, Newton, and Jasper, counties are looking good and even dry! ;)

Now I have just gone through the current data and the good news is we are looking pretty stable! I'm looking at Lifted index of +1.2 which is pretty good. Even the SWEAT models are below 300 which is also a good sign! Now we are watching some more scattered thundershowers to our west at this time. You can see them in this radar image taken below.
Radar image taken at 7:03pm EDT...

Now there are some severe thunderstorm watches with these storms to our west however if we continue to stay as stable as we are right now then we should start to see these storms weaken as the move closer to the WLFI viewing area. Also we are starting to head into the evening / night time hours when we start to cool down which should help us along as well.

Still for now we will continue to watch the storms to our west just to be on the safe side. And if anything is to change you can bet that I will be here to let you all know!

I'll check back if needed!