Will there be subsequent TS lines following this Loudoun/Fredrick county cell?

Storm north of Leesburg showing a little rotation. Lots popping up in WV now.

I was about to say this one went through Harpers Ferry without too much drama, but you're saying there's more to come immediately? This afternoon will be "amazing," as the celebs like to say about everything. I'm eating chocolate with both hands (women would understand this).

Good cell moving into Howard County - I'm hearing some good thunder here in Ellicott City and the line is still far to the west of me. Question for the CW team - do you think the action will be out of the immediate DC area by late this afternoon? I have a dinner in Rockville at 5:30 then a concert at Strathmore at 8:00 - just curious if you think the heavy stuff will be gone by then.

still concerned re: 3pm flight out of Dulles.

Your thoughts?

It's time travel. See, they are not seeing the storms because they are posting from the future.

Staying indoors today and getting cozy with the weather radio.

GI, there will be more following the first line that is mainly missing the area to the north (though might be setting up boundaries for later activity). Some locations may actually see several rounds of severe storms today.

Will we get any of these severe storms? The radar seems to say no, but everyone else says yes.

Tinkerbelle & ~sg. I hope it doesn't get that bad!

Overcast and gusty in southern Silver Spring.

GISman, Period: This was just an initial area of storms, tracking through the northern part of the area. There will likely be more storms as the day goes on. You should check out our full forecast.

I can't help but be somewhat skeptical of the severe weather forecasts. The radar shows most of the storm activity in Southern Pennsylvania, with only a blip or two on radar where we live. The E/NE track of the storm also seems to spell less rain for our area.

Of course, it only takes one bolt of lightning on the roof to change my mind. :-)

Obviously there's some technical difficulties with the comment time stamps, and thus the order they are apperaing. Sorry about that ... we've asked for the problem to be checked in to.

CWG - what's up w/ your server - your time stamps are an hour ahead!

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
District of Columbia
southeastern Montgomery County in central Maryland...
north central Prince Georges County in central Maryland...
northwestern Arlington County in northern Virginia...
north central Fairfax County in northern Virginia...

* until 130 PM EDT

in bethesda some thunder but no hail

in bethesda, pouring rain one one side of house, drizzleing on the other. weird.

@tinkerbelle: I totally understand, and approve. If a storm hits you hard, you'll handle it much better with the taste of chocolate to carry you through!

A bit of light rain just now.

My tinkerbelle/~sg comment has the correct timestamp of 12:10 pm but my light rain comment has a 1:12 pm timestamp.

12:14 pm.

A rumble of thunder right now.

@Murre, it never hurts to be prepared! :-D

I'm skeptical about our chances for heavy rain, despite the on-and-off thunder that I've been hearing. Most of this storm's energy seems to be well to our north, and the E-NE direction of the system won't help to drag any of the rain down to our area. Though I'm well aware that thunderstorms can quickly materialize, I can't help but feel that McLean will emerge from this system dry.

Nothing but dark clouds moving north of here in Springfield right now...

THIS STORM HAS EXPLODED! Look at the boom in lightning strikes over in Loudoun County. A large cell is bearing down on the DC area, and the sky is dark enough that it looks more like 8 p.m. than 1:45. Prepare for something big.

(Boy, was I wrong to shrug off this storm.)

Power flickering! Chaotic rain outside! Trees swaying! Abandon ship! Wait--we're not in a ship! Daaaah!

cell is moving through mclean now; lots of T and L and heavy rain. wind isn't too bad; gusts no more than 20-25mph; glad i staked my garden though!

I've been seeing some pretty large lightning strikes west of Arlington.

Storm in Loudon bears watching, has shown some rotation.

Not so distant thunder, ok, close thunder, lots of rain, no visible lightning.

The Icelandic chocolate in the freezer has been diminished.

BTW, some of my posts aren't going through, and some posters' time stamp is at real time while others is still one hour ahead.

2:00 pm.

Looks like no rain for Fairfax/Arlington.

Ian, I'm watching it, if only because it looks to be the second severe thunderstorm to pass close to my house.

The center of one severe warning storm has passed over us. Moderate to heavy rain, some thunder, no visible lightning.

I'm not hitting the chocolate just yet.

"Tornado Vortex Signature" moving through SE DC according to Weather Underground.

The storm has largely passed us. Winds weren't that strong and the sky wasn't that dark. Lights flickered a little bit.

--in Silver Spring, 2:22 pm

lots o lightning

round 2 for mclean; just heavy, steady rain so far

The storm has hit. Wow! Strong winds, heavy rain, lightening...but no rotation, right? Right?

Spoke too soon. Heavy downpours, thunder, and lightning in Springfield now.

Just got home and started pouring like crazy. Weather radio was going off. We're soaked and I'm shutting down computer. Just got really bad really fast here in Lake Ridge.

very loud t'storm that passed through Clarendon earlier. Power is out.

Heavy thunder -- the lights have already flickered once -- with heavy rain in Brookland, NE DC.

Penny size hail here in Edgewater, MD in Anne Arundel County at 1:25 pm from the first thunderstorm. Looks like were in for round two shortly! Had very heavy rain and strong lightning/thunder with first one!

About 2.5 inches of rain here in SW DC, but no exceptional lightening/thunder and winds have been light. It's not over, but so far I'm feeling let down.

It blew thru here 15 Min ago. No hail, strong wind. Getting hit by another cell now.
Shady Side (So. Anne Arundel Md.)

Oooh, Icelandic chocolate for weather emergencies, how elegant. I'm a Lindt woman myself. (I know, I know, so plebian.) I would hazard to state that so far Harpers Ferry has slid through okay, but I don't want to be like McLeaNed and call down the weather gods on my head. Wonder how things are in Augusta Jim's neck of the woods. Probably he's running the hose on his veggies as we speak.

Andrews AFB just recorded a wind gust to 60 MPH.

tinkerbelle, I don't always have Icelandic chocolate...it's just what I picked up recently. But, I will purchase it again. Lindt is good too.

Whoa- exciting last half hour here in Mt Vernon. Some mega thunder claps, torrential rain (1/2" in twenty minutes), and ONE piece of penny sized hail with a lot of smaller pieces. Quiet now, but dog is still under the bed.

DCA over 10" of rain for the month now, all time record is just over 1/2" away.

In other news, say hello to Arthur.

A squall just passed here in Chaptico, St. Mary's County. It lasted 15 minutes, with flash-flood intensity. Skies are still cloudy with thunder. Very black to the south of here...looks like more to come.

Things got hairy here in chinatown for the past hour. two distinct periods of intense rain and wind. the first was downright scary! havent seen storms like this in a while.
cue the drought discussion...:)

so hubby's 2:45 flight out of Dulles is now 4:40 . . .

power has been out in seven corners for over an hour. Glad I can check things out on my iPhone

Tornado watch canceled for Jefferson County. Whew. A nap feels like a plan but I'm afraid that might REALLY tick off the weather gods. Are N winds building in yet? I'm noticing that stuff on radar that seems headed for me ends up going S a few degrees.

Several of the cells today showed some of the most intense echoes I've ever seen in this area...pink and purple on the Accuweather radar, which is near the absolute max of the severe end. That is usually indicative of large hail.

The first cell which went over me in Vienna had the marks of a severe storm....mammatus, dark, wedge-shaped shelf cloud with a sharp downdraft/temperature drop, intense cloud-ground lightning, 50+ wind gusts, and almost 2" of rain. Another, slightly less intense cell followed about an hour later.

My stepdaughter reported light green clouds in Takoma Park during the height of the storm that passed by during the 2:00 hour. That dovetails with the 2:15 post of the tornado vortex signature.

3:48 pm.

Thunder and heavy rain has let up dramatically here in Lake Ridge. We got a ton of rain, a little wind, and quite a bit of thunder during that. Well, that was fun.

WX radio went off a little while ago and said PWC was under watch until 900PM. Hopefully they'll let that expire early and nothing develops to our west.

And Tropical Storm Arthur just formed off the coast of Belize. It's moving inland, will re-emerge in the Gulf, then shortly thereafter make another landfall in Central Mexico. Arthur is from the remnants of TS Alma in the Pacific.

4:03 PM 5-31-08