C/S TX Weather: Seasonal with some rains

[Portastorm]

Have had moderate haze and smoke in Austin all day due to the fires up in North Texas and Oklahoma. Visibilities ranged from 3-5 miles before opening up to 10 miles late this afternoon. There also was an evident "pungent" smell in the air (not me, I took a shower) that reminded me of the days we experience Mexican smoke from the Yucatan. Interesting.

[Ed Mahmoud]

New NAM suggests storms late night for South Central Texas


NAM forecast skew-T suggests decent mid-level instability, but storms will be elevated above cool stable surface layer, suggesting a low tornado threat.

[srainhoutx]

Waiting on the run to complete to look at some 2 meter data, but beginning to see some "hints" of a MCS near the Hill Country moving E ahead of the squall line.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Waiting on the run to complete, but beginning to see some "hints" of a MCS near the Hill Country moving E ahead of the squall line.

Which may use up a lot of instabilty that would otherwise be available for the squall line. Which could reduce the severe threat somewhat along the I-10 corridor.


If everything was six or twelve hours slower, the severe threat would be a lot worse, because that first MCS would probably be surface based with a few hours of sunlight.


Bad timing for rain, but Central and Southeast Texas needs it.





I still want to see the GFS. I think I liked the old ETA better for short range amateur guess-casting.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

The 60% chance of rain was a bust on Sunday.

Just a little drizzle for 5 minutes and it was gone. Enough to mess up the car.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Have had moderate haze and smoke in Austin all day due to the fires up in North Texas and Oklahoma. Visibilities ranged from 3-5 miles before opening up to 10 miles late this afternoon. There also was an evident "pungent" smell in the air (not me, I took a shower) that reminded me of the days we experience Mexican smoke from the Yucatan. Interesting.

Don't remind me about the Mexican smoke. The last time we had it was during dry period in May/June in which we had a bunch of record highs too.

Sound familar? So we might have our own smoke from local fires, compounded by the Mexican smoke.

[Portastorm]

Have had moderate haze and smoke in Austin all day due to the fires up in North Texas and Oklahoma. Visibilities ranged from 3-5 miles before opening up to 10 miles late this afternoon. There also was an evident "pungent" smell in the air (not me, I took a shower) that reminded me of the days we experience Mexican smoke from the Yucatan. Interesting.

Don't remind me about the Mexican smoke. The last time we had it was during dry period in May/June in which we had a bunch of record highs too.

Sound familar? So we might have our own smoke from local fires, compounded by the Mexican smoke.

I guess now would not be a good time to tell you that we got another .40 inches of rainfall this past weekend?!

Don't worry, we are still in the exceptional drought category here or whatever they call the darkest color on the drought map. Still, the recent rain has been nice.

We need to get that storm track a little further south so Corpus gets its rain!

[Shoshana]

Heavy rain in NE Austin/Pflugerville area...

[Portastorm]

Yep, already received about an inch of rain between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. today. I love it!!

[Ptarmigan]

Hope you guys in Central and South Central Texas get the rain.

[srainhoutx]

FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
132 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2009

TXC123-149-177-285-287-172030-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FA.Y.0012.090417T1832Z-090417T2030Z/
/00000.N.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
132 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED AN

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...
EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL DEWITT COUNTY...
FAYETTE COUNTY...
EASTERN GONZALES COUNTY...
NORTHERN LAVACA COUNTY...
SOUTH CENTRAL LEE COUNTY...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT.

* AT 124 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE
AREA PRODUCING MODERATE AND HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3
INCHES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH 330 PM. RAPID WATER RISE AND LOCALIZED FLOODING CAN BE
EXPECTED. LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND OTHER LOCATIONS WITH POOR
DRAINAGE CAN EXPECT STANDING WATER. WATER LEVELS SHOULD RECEDE BY
THE LATE EVENING.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Yep, already received about an inch of rain between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. today. I love it!!

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Another big rain event is advertised.

Another big rain event is a bust.

I got about 5 minutes of "rain" on Saturday.

[Portastorm]

Ample and glorious rain falling in Austin today!!

CC, with a little luck, this stuff might slide south to the Coastal Bend.

[srainhoutx]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
346 PM CDT MON APR 27 2009

..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0341 PM TORNADO YORKTOWN 28.98N 97.50W
04/27/2009 DEWITT TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

TORNADO SPOTTED ON HIGHWAY 119 IN YORKTOWN...ONE HOUSE
DESTROYED.

[Shoshana]

Yippee!!! 1.8" rain yesterday!

We're currently out of the 04 exceptional drought, down to 03 extreme drought. But a lot of South Texas has gone into 04... and it's the rainy season...

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

We got 1.50" of glorious rain at my house on Saturday evening.

First time since last September we pushed over 1 inch in the rain department.

[jasons2k]

I was up near Concan and we had one heck of a storm last Friday night. It rained hard and thundered for a few hours.

[Portastorm]

Have had some nice rains in the last few days here in southern Travis County. With "heavy rain" in the forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday, here's hoping we get more. Slowly but surely maybe we can ease this drought!

[A1A]

I'm wondering if they are going to up the forecast from 20% for tomorrow - current radar has a batch heading toward Austin.