Texas Spring-2014

#881 Postby **Portastorm** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:32 am

wxman57 wrote:Portastorm should be getting a good bit of rain in Austin tonight. Quite a line of storms across Texas. I'm in Miami until tomorrow evening, meeting with potential clients. I figure my evening flight to Houston will be delayed or re-routed. Houston only gets squalls when I'm trying to land there.

Indeed I did, sir. Indeed I did. The Portastorm Weather Center received 2.82" of liquid gold in the last 24 hours. Absolutely no complaints or whining this time. We finally saw widespread, beneficial rains. Here's hoping your travel runs smoothly with no re-routing or delays.

Now, if we can only get some rain for hriverajr and our friends out in West Texas. Perhaps that will be Nino's work this fall.

weatherdude1108 · #882 Postby **weatherdude1108** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:35 am

I just read the LCRA River Report. Here is an exerpt. It is a start! :wink:

Last Update: 5/13/2014 7:33 AM
Lakes Buchanan and Travis are currently low due to prolonged drought. Repeated, heavy rainstorms would be needed to significantly raise storage levels.

Overnight rainfall totals generally from 1-2 1/2 inches above the Highland Lakes has not caused significant runoff. Lakes Buchanan and Travis have risen only a few inches so far and little additional gain is expected.

http://hydromet.lcra.org/riverreport/report.aspx

Here is the flood status report, not that it is necessary yet.

http://floodstatus.lcra.org/

#883 Postby **Ralph's Weather** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:43 am

We "only" ended up with about 3/4 inches which was far less than I expected. It still makes for about 4 inches since Thursday with another inch possible through tomorrow morning.

#884 Postby **dhweather** » Tue May 13, 2014 9:17 am

Portastorm wrote:
wxman57 wrote:Portastorm should be getting a good bit of rain in Austin tonight. Quite a line of storms across Texas. I'm in Miami until tomorrow evening, meeting with potential clients. I figure my evening flight to Houston will be delayed or re-routed. Houston only gets squalls when I'm trying to land there.

Indeed I did, sir. Indeed I did. The Portastorm Weather Center received 2.82" of liquid gold in the last 24 hours. Absolutely no complaints or whining this time. We finally saw widespread, beneficial rains. Here's hoping your travel runs smoothly with no re-routing or delays.

Now, if we can only get some rain for hriverajr and our friends out in West Texas. Perhaps that will be Nino's work this fall.

Outstanding! I'm happy you finally got some significant rainfall - this has been a good event for a large part of drought plagued Texas. Still a lot to go, but it is a start.

#885 Postby **Rgv20** » Tue May 13, 2014 9:36 am

FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
421 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...THREAT OF FLOODING EXPECTED ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...

.AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN
THE AREA WILL LEAD TO THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH OUT THE
DAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREMENT
AS THE DAY PROGRESSES PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA.
THIS WOULD PRODUCE FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY TODAY.

TXZ248>257-131730-
/O.NEW.KBRO.FF.A.0001.140513T0921Z-140514T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-
INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS...
SARITA...RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA...MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR...
MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN...
PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...
LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA
421 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...BROOKS...COASTAL CAMERON...
COASTAL WILLACY...HIDALGO...INLAND CAMERON...INLAND WILLACY...
JIM HOGG...KENEDY...STARR AND ZAPATA.

* THROUGH THIS EVENING

* TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ISOLATED
HIGHER AMOUNTS OF 5 INCHES.

* FLASH FLOODING COULD LEAD TO WATER COVERING ROADWAYS AND
INTERSECTIONS AND MAKING TRAVEL VERY DANGEROUS. LOW LYING AREAS
WILL BY INUNDATED BY FLOODING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT
24 TO 36 HOURS. RESIDENTS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT PROPERTY.

&&

$$

#886 Postby **hriverajr** » Tue May 13, 2014 9:37 am

Only .17 here :/ the curse lives on.

#887 Postby **vbhoutex** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:16 am

2.70" here in W. Houston. Much dancing in the streets!! Oh wait that was people getting out of their flooded out cars. :eek:

#888 Postby **Ntxw** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:19 am

Jackpot winner is Brenham. Over 14 inches last night and some of their hourly totals alone would make most of us envious.

#889 Postby **gpsnowman** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:59 am

Man it is nice to see and hear of all the multi inch rain reports on the news and on Storm2k. It has been too long! And here it is, on May 13, and I am wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt comfortably. Amazing. Congrats to South Texas Storms on his degree. Another smart mind a weather junkie like me can learn from and appreciate.

#890 Postby **gto67** » Tue May 13, 2014 11:08 am

31/2" in Weimar and Columbus got 7"+. Land owners are very happy and feel they will get another two cuttings of hay.

#891 Postby **dhweather** » Tue May 13, 2014 11:51 am

Enjoy what you get through tonight, because it looks mighty dry for the next 7-10 days.

#892 Postby **Texas Snowman** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:09 pm

Ntxw, saw where medium range outlook shows dry end to May.

You still seeing rain chances next week?

#893 Postby **srainhoutx** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:20 pm

Ntxw wrote:Jackpot winner is Brenham. Over 14 inches last night and some of their hourly totals alone would make most of us envious.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
649 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...BRENHAM AIRPORT RAINFALL...

THE BRENHAM AIRPORT /11R/ HAD AN ERROR IN ITS RAINFALL EARLIER
THIS MORNING. THE RAINFALL AT 0100 CDT WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 3.25
INCHES. THE 5-HOUR RAINFALL AT 0600 CDT WAS MEASURED TO BE 1.68
INCHES. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL IS ESTIMATED TO BE 4.93 INCHES.

#894 Postby **Ntxw** » Tue May 13, 2014 6:48 pm

Thanks for the clarification. Looks like we'll have to find a new winner

Texas Snowman wrote:Ntxw, saw where medium range outlook shows dry end to May.

You still seeing rain chances next week?

Generally most guidance put another trough just to our west, basically the same pattern we just saw twice. HP over the southeastern US which typically means gulf flow for us. It will be after this current cool down sometime next week. It will get very humid and muggy again. Typically in the summer this pattern would bring popcorn like showers during the day. As for organized areas of rain we'll have to wait until we get closer to the time frame. But I do believe one more rain event could be in the cards before May is done.

Quite a few if not most of the analogs that's been popping up for the past month have been Nino driven

weatherdude1108 · #895 Postby **weatherdude1108** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:19 pm

I'm enjoying these renegade thundershowers that are moving by this evening. Unexpected surprise.

000
FXUS64 KEWX 140124
AFDEWX

"AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
824 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

.UPDATE...
POPS WERE INCREASED SLIGHTLY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INCREASED EVENING
RADAR ECHOES MOVING INTO THE I-35 CORRIDOR. WHILE CHANCES OF
GETTING WET ARE INCREASED FOR THE CENTRAL AND EAST...QPF AMOUNTS
WERE TAPERED FROM EARLIER...WITH MOST AREAS EXPECTED TO SEE LESS
THAN 1/4 INCH."

weatherdude1108 · #896 Postby **weatherdude1108** » Wed May 14, 2014 7:59 am

Got another third of an inch (0.3) last night.

There were small, fresh puddles in the backyard this morning. They are talking mid-upper 40s tonight in the Austin area! :cold:

#897 Postby **Portastorm** » Wed May 14, 2014 8:08 am

weatherdude1108 wrote:Got another third of an inch (0.3) last night. There were small, fresh puddles in the backyard this morning. They are talking mid-upper 40s tonight in the Austin area!

That's about what we received down at the PWC from those pleasant evening showers/storms. For the entire event, we ended up with about 3 1/2 inches of rain. Beautiful!

And now we get to experience, perhaps, one last gasp of cool, crisp weather before the Texas Easy Bake Oven turns on for summer.

#898 Postby **srainhoutx** » Wed May 14, 2014 8:50 am

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
458 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2014

...NEAR RECORD OR RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY
MORNING...

NEAR RECORD OR RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY
MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS. THE FOLLOWING TABLE GIVES THE
FORECAST LOWS AND RECORD LOWS FOR THURSDAY MAY 15TH AT THE FIRST-
ORDER CLIMATE STATIONS.

SITE FCST LOW RECORD LOW

CLL 48 50 IN 1942
IAH 49 49 IN 1890
HOU 53 54 IN 1976
GLS 57 57 IN 1926

#899 Postby **dhweather** » Wed May 14, 2014 11:01 am

In 2,288 hours, the GFS has five cats in the gulf!

#900 Postby **Tireman4** » Wed May 14, 2014 11:05 am

dhweather wrote:In 2,288 hours, the GFS has five cats in the gulf!

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6400/eq23a.jpg

Finally. The GFS is finally onto something.

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