Texas Summer 2017

[Brent]

Yeah that airport storm literally hovered over the western runways for half an hour while the east side got nothing before the storm meanderd northeast. Pretty neat to watch. The south end of the airport got a few drops.

where do they measure the rain?

[Ntxw]

Quite a warm rain, feels very tropical under one of those showers. If this is the summer pattern sign me up

[Brent]

Quite a warm rain, feels very tropical under one of those showers. If this is the summer pattern sign me up

I hope so but my other mindset is June is the May this year without the severe weather.

[Ntxw]

Yeah that airport storm literally hovered over the western runways for half an hour while the east side got nothing before the storm meanderd northeast. Pretty neat to watch. The south end of the airport got a few drops.

where do they measure the rain?

I'm not sure of the exact location but from years of watching radar and qpf output, I think it is somewhere on the northern end of the aiport right where Dallas and Tarrant counties meet

[gboudx]

This snippet from DFW NWS:

As daytime heating occurs this will increase the temperature/pressure differential between dry and rainy areas and cause the outflow boundary to surge outward to the south and east. This outflow boundary will become the focus for showers and thunderstorms this afternoon across the the north central and western central parts of the CWA - including the DFW Metroplex.

Looking at the radar, it appears this outflow boundary has started heading towards the Metroplex.

https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.p ... 1&loop=yes

[bubba hotep]

Nice downpour here in downtown. I knew planning a camping trip for this weekend wound bring the rain. Lol, perfect weekends here recently and now this.

[Cpv17]

Tropical downpours all over the place today. Love it!

[Brent]

I had about 1.75" in the gauge from yesterday and today at 12:30pm and it's downpoured twice since and the main line isnt even here yet

[Ntxw]

Rain! The airport is about to get slammed I can hear the rolling thunder from a distance

[bubba hotep]

Flash flood warnings being hoisted. The timing of this impulse is just about perfect for heavy rain in N. Texas. Slow moving, providing best lift in afternoon, high PW air mass in place.

Getting out 3rd downpour of the day here in downtown!

[TheProfessor]

I'm away on vacation so I'm not getting to enjoy the rain there, but it looks like it followed me all the way to Barbados lol.

[Brent]

Flash flood warnings being hoisted. The timing of this impulse is just about perfect for heavy rain in N. Texas. Slow moving, providing best lift in afternoon, high PW air mass in place.

Getting out 3rd downpour of the day here in downtown!

June is the new May lol radar is just blossoming on top of Dallas

[Ntxw]

It is raining in sheets, like mentioned earlier very tropical with 3" hr rates

Flash Flood Warning
TXC439-022315-
/O.NEW.KFWD.FF.W.0024.170602T2040Z-170602T2315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
340 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 2017

The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
Tarrant County in north central Texas...

* Until 615 PM CDT.

* At 339 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain over Fort Worth...moving east at 10 mph. Rain was
falling at a rate in excess of 3 inches per hour with these
storms. This rainfall will lead to excessive water runoff and
cause flash flooding. Low-lying areas are most vulnerable to
rapidly rising water. Some low-water crossings may flood and
become impassable.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Euless, Bedford,
Grapevine, Haltom City, Keller, Coppell, Hurst, Southlake, Watauga,
Colleyville, Saginaw, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Sansom Park, Lake
Worth and Eagle Mountain.

[weatherdude1108]

DFW wins again!


Nothing around Austin, per usual.

[Ntxw]

[bubba hotep]

MESOSCALE PRECIPITATION DISCUSSION 0291...CORRECTED
NWS WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD
310 PM EDT FRI JUN 02 2017

CORRECTED FOR EXPANSION OF AREA OF CONERN

AREAS AFFECTED...NORTH CENTRAL TX ...EXT SOUTH CENTRAL OK

CONCERNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE

VALID 021840Z - 022300Z

SUMMARY...INCREASING CONVECTIVE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WITH SLOW
EASTWARD PROGRESSION MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING CONCERNS
PARTICULAR IN DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX.

DISCUSSION...RADAR AND SATELLITE MOSAIC DENOTE COLD POOL FROM
EARLY MORNING CONVECTION IN THROCKMORTON COUNTY IS PROGRESSING
INTO AREAS UNAFFECTED BY DENSE CLOUD COVER NEAR THE DFW METRO
WHERE INSTABILITY WAS ABLE TO BUILD UP AS SFC T REACH UPPER 80S
AND TDS INTO THE LOWER 70S SBCAPES TO 2500 J/KG. AT THE SURFACE
AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS LAID OUT W-E FROM DTO TO JXI...WITH
CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG IT AS WELL. IN THE UPPER LEVELS FLOW
IS EXTREMELY WEAK AND ALMOST DRIVEN FULLY BY THE MESOSCALE UPSCALE
GROWTH FROM THE EARLY MORNING MCS AS WELL. 3H FLOW SHOWS
EXCELLENT ANTICYCLONIC BUBBLE WITH STRONGEST OUTFLOW ON THE
WESTERN PERIPHERY. 925-7H FLOW IS GENERALLY WEAK BUT ALSO QUITE
CONVERGENT TOWARD THE INTERFACE OF THE OUTFLOW AND FRONTAL
BOUNDARY...AS SUCH SOME ENHANCED ISENTROPIC ASCENT IN THE
EFFECTIVE TROWAL SHOULD SPARK DEEPER ASCENT/CONVECTION AS WELL
PARTICULARLY CLOSER TO THE TRIPLE POINT WHERE ENVIRONMENTAL
INSTABILITY IS GREATEST. OVERALL CLOUD BEARING FLOW IS LESS THAN
10KTS WITH 5KT EASTWARD PROPAGATION. AS SUCH THE ORGANIZATION MAY
BE A BIT MORE SCATTERED THAN TRADITIONALLY EXPECTED WITH AN MCS
BUT SLOW CEL MOTIONS AND PARAMETERS SUPPORTIVE OF RAIN RATES OVER
2"/HR LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SPOTTY 2.5-3.5" TOTALS OVER THE
NEXT FEW HOURS. WHILE FFG VALUES ARE HIGH...THE PROXIMITY THE
URBAN CORRIDOR PRESENT THE GREATEST FF RISK.

FURTHER SW ALONG I-20...THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY
WHERE IT BECOMES GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE EASTWARD ADVANCEMENT OF
THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...A SECONDARY AREA OF CONCERN FOR FF (PERHAPS
EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT TOTALS) MAY EVOLVE AS CONVERGENCE IS
MAXIMIZED AND BACK-BUILDING PROPAGATION VECTORS MAY SUPPORT NEAR
ZERO CLUSTER MOTIONS ALLOWING FOR TOTALS. CONFIDENCE IS A BIT
LOWER HERE FOR THIS CLUSTER TO EVOLVE THOUGH BEARS CLOSE
MONITORING.

[Cpv17]

Looks like the south side of DFW is getting the shaft. Hopefully they can get in on the act too.

[Ntxw]

Looks like the south side of DFW is getting the shaft. Hopefully they can get in on the act too.

Complex to the west of them will likely fill in as it approaches. The airport is long overdue for a downpour though, it's been since early April...

[Brent]

Seen between Wylie and Princeton earlier almost looks like a tornado?

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamTarby/st ... 3464947714

[bubba hotep]

Seen between Wylie and Princeton earlier almost looks like a tornado?

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamTarby/st ... 3464947714

Possibly a tropical funnel? Surface based CAPE was pushing 3,000 in the eastern portions of DFW earlier.