Marine Thunderstorm Wind — The Islands To Vermilion Oh, Lake Erie

2024-04-27 · near Vermilion, The Islands To Vermilion Oh, Lake Erie

Event narrative

The Huron Light C-MAN Station (HHLO1) recorded a peak convective wind gust of 44-mph from a thunderstorm.

Wider weather episode

At the surface, northern OH and the western-half of Lake Erie resided in the warm sector during the early afternoon through early evening of the 27th as a low moved northeastward from Lake Superior toward far-southern James Bay and became occluded. The low's attendant warm front drifted eastward across eastern Lake Erie and far-western PA as the low's attendant cold front drifted eastward across the western Great Lakes region. Ahead of the cold front, a cluster of multicell thunderstorms persisted eastward along the northwest OH shore and generated a gale-force peak convective wind gust at the Huron Light C-MAN Station. These storms encountered weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate magnitudes of DCAPE and effective bulk shear, respectively.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1166911. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.