This evening at a little after 10pm CDT some small but very strong,
fast-moving thunderstorm cells moved through the west St. Louis County, MO
area.
My weather station (Oregon Scientific WMR-968) gathered some interesting
data. In the 7 minutes it took the cell that hit our house hard we
registered:
-- .31 inches of rain (computed out to a rate of 2.61 inches per hour).
-- Temperature dropped 9.98 degrees.
-- Sustained wind of 30 mph with gusts of 43-45 mph.
-- Barometer rose from 29.97 to 30.00 and then dropped back 29.97.
-- Almost continuous and very impressive lightning.
No funnel clouds or tornados were generated from these cells but lightning
hits, trees down, electricity out, etc. reports are numerous. (Sure am glad I
have the weather station equipment on an uninterruptable power supply!)
Anyway, it's been quite a while since I've seen this much activity from a
storm in such a short time so I thought I'd pass it on.
Shelley Sheahan
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