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ITS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH A MASSIVE CLOUDBURST HAS HAPPENED IN LEH TRIGGERING SEVERE RAINS AND FLASH FLOODS
ITS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH A MASSIVE CLOUDBURST HAS HAPPENED IN LEH TRIGGERING SEVERE RAINS AND FLASH FLOODS
ACCORDING TO THE LOCALS, THE CLOUDBURST HAPPENED BETWEEN 12-2AM ON FRIDAY AND LASTED FOR A VERY SHORT TIME.
THE TOLL NOW RISES TO 103 AND ATLEAST 370 PEOPLE INJURED AS PER THE STATE POLICE.25 ARMY JAWAN ALSO MISSING
VILLAGES OF PHYANG, CHOGLAMSAR, SABU AND NIMOO ARE THE MOST HIT!
NIMOO IS ABOUT 40KM AWAY FROM LEH
PHYANG IS JUST 10-13KM FROM LEH
LEH AIRPORT HAS BEEN WATER AND MUD LOGGED, LEH NEW AND OLD BUS STAND ARE DESTROYED TOTALLY, ABOUT 200 STUDENTS WERE RESCUED FROM DRUK WHITE LOTUS SCHOOL OR SCHOOL SHOWN IN THE HINDI FILM 3 IDIOTS
THE BSNL LEH OFFICE, CRPF OFFICE, ITBP HEADQUARTER, A POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE IN LEH ALSO AFFECTED.
FAQ-
WHAT ARE CLOUD BURSTS
Cloud bursts are a type of rainfall that happens from high top clouds or cool topped clouds
Mostly it happens from a Cumulonimbus(CB) cloud. Warm, moist air keeps on rising in the clouds thus making an updraft of the clouds as most of the times there is updraft of moist air... This updraft prevents the clouds from causing a downpour as rain or Hails (In the CASE of CB cloud) falls as an downdraft of the cloud or the storm system.
In hilly regions, mountains are a barrier to this updrafts and cause the cloud to release the downdraft suddenly which lasts for a few minutes but causing a precipitation of 100mm in an hour.
Most of the times, there is hail, and thunder with the downdraft along with the rains.
Such cloudburst are most likely to trigger flash floods
THE PREVIOUS RECORDS OF HIGHEST RAIN RATE FROM CLOUDBURST HAS BEEN BROKEN BY THE LEH CLOUDBURST WHICH HAPPENED ON AUGUST 6 2010
Record Cloudbursts
Duration | Rainfall | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 minute | 1.9 inches (48.26 mm) | Leh, Jammu Kashmir, India | 06 August, 2010 |
| 1 minute | 1.5 inches (38.10 mm) | Barot, Himachal Pradesh,India | 26 November, 1970 |
| 5 minutes | 2.43 inches (61.72 mm) | Port Bells, Panama | 29 November, 1911 |
| 15 minutes | 7.8 inches (198.12 mm) | Plumb Point, Jamaica | 12 May, 1916 |
| 20 minutes | 8.1 inches (205.74 mm) | Curtea-de-Arges, Romania | 7 July, 1947 |
| 40 minutes | 9.25 inches (234.95 mm) | Guinea, Virginia, USA | 24 August, 1906 |
Source- Wikipedia.org for cloudbursts.
WHAT HAPPENED IN LEH ON 6TH AUGUST 2010
A SUDDEN AND SERIES OF CLOUDBURST STRIKED NEAR KHARDUNGLA PASS WHICH IS AT 18300FT ABOVE SEA LEVEL AND 39KMS FROM LEH.
THIS CLOUDBURST TRIGGERED RAINS IN LEH AND NEARBY AREAS AND AS MOST AREAS HAVE MUD HOUSES THEN HOUSES GOT COLLAPSED,
LEH MANALI ROAD ALSO WITNESSED CLOUDBURSTS NEAR ZINZINGBAR AS A RESULT MANY PEOPLE WERE STRANDED NEAR BARALACHA PASS.
ON LEH-SRINAGAR ROAD,
MANY LANDSLIDES AND MUD SLIDES WERE REPORTED ON THE WAY WITH SOME SEVERE NEAR CAPTIAN'S MODE ABT 100KM FROM SRINAGAR
METEOROLOGICAL HISTORY
SOME HEAVY RAIN PATCHES WERE SEEN IN EASTERN JAMMU AND KASHMIR
WITH SOME STRONG CAPE OVER LEH, THE UPDRAFTS W'D HAVE BEEN MASSIVE WITH TALL CLOUDS THOUGH NOTHING HAS BEEN RECORDED BY ME AS I DIDN'T FOCUS ON J&K LAST NIGHT
2 comments:
Akshay,
What is the source for the data "48 mm of rain in 1 minute" for the Leh Cloudburst?
@ Achinmay,
Sorry for the late reply!
Well, the source was wikipedia but since it had no reference the content is no more valid.
I still believe being a Weather Forecaster that whatever damage has caused, looking at it, it looks like the rainfall rate can near to 40mm in a min
Since we have no Weather station setup there, we will never be able to determine the actual quantum in this life
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