2011 SE TX/SW LA Weather: Nice weather next several days

[CajunMama]

I'm soooo thankful that the cold cold weather is (hopefully) past us. It got up to 77 today and was absolutely gorgeous. It cooled down once the sun went down and was chilly enough at the ballpark to put on a sweatshirt. Helloooooooooo Spring

[South Texas Storms]

The name of this subject is 2012 weather! I think you're a year ahead of yourself!

[CajunMama]

Whoops!!!!!

[CajunMama]

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.

Beautiful weather for the krewe of rio parade this coming saturday night. Any locals....i'm on the royalty float, the beautiful vegas bride!

[vbhoutex]

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.

Beautiful weather for the krewe of rio parade this coming saturday night. Any locals....i'm on the royalty float, the beautiful vegas bride!

Well vegas bride, how was it? I imagine you had a great time if your weather was as nice as ours was. A little too windy for my liking, but otherwise gorgeous weather. WE NEED RAIN though. Looks like we could be heading right back into severe drought. No rain for almost 3 weeks. Last moisture coming down from the sky here was in the form of an ice storm.

[southerngale]

We got rain this past Thursday. Nothing to write home about, but enough to cancel some outdoor sports. Otherwise, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous with wonderful temperatures. When you can be comfortable in shorts or jeans, who can complain?

[CajunMama]

David, the weather was windy. My eyelashes would blow and i couldn't see!!! Here's me and my daughter pre-parade. So sososososososo much fun! OH...and i lost my grillz

[vbhoutex]

OMG!! ROFLMAO about the eyelashes!!! How did you lose your grillz???

Oh and the weather here in Houston was windy and beautiful again today.

[AnnularCane]

Why aren't you in costume, CM?


(Sorry, I had to! )

[CajunMama]

Hush up GC! Where's your pic?????

[vbhoutex]

Got up this morning and opened the blinds and looked out the window and thought my glasses were really dirty. When I took them off to clean them it looked the same. That's when I figured out it was a pea soup fog that had set in overnight. We had a high of 75f today under mostly sunny skies. Got my fence rehab finished, but I'm too tired(aka as lazy and fat)to bundle up the limbs and bushes I have cut back to put out for trash. That will have to wait for next weeks trash. May cut back on the outside activities a little this weekend if the temps remain as coolish as they now say.

[vbhoutex]

Jeff's morning email:

Sea fog has made its return to the area this morning with very dense fog along the coast especially around Matagorda Bay. Visibilities have been averaging 1/4th of a mile or less from Port Lavaca to Palacios to Galveston to High Island this morning. Expect the sea fog to linger much of the morning and possibly much of the day along the coast as dewpoints have risen over near shore water temperatures. Sea fog will advance inland again after sunset this evening with visibilities tanking. Light winds tonight ahead of the cold front Saturday will likely promote some thick sea fog possibly as far inland as I-10.

Upper level storm system over the Rockies will eject into the central plains today and Saturday which will drag a cold front across the region early Saturday. Moisture levels will continue to increase today and tonight ahead of this front and then stronger dynamics come to bear across the region between about 600am Saturday and noon. Capping inversion is in place over the area today and will slowly weaken early Saturday. Forecast soundings especially from the NAM show the cap weakening enough for a few thunderstorms as frontal convergence looks strong enough to bust through any remaining capping.

Expect light rain to begin to develop within the sea fog after 300am and become more widespread by 600am as the front and strong lift approach from the west. Convection (thunderstorms) will likely backbuild SW from NW LA and E TX Saturday morning along the frontal boundary. Do not expect a solid line of storms, but more scattered in nature with better coverage likely near the coast where the best moisture and splitting jet structure is noted. Severe threat looks marginal at best given unfavorable time of day (morning) and weak instability, but a few storms could be strong. Rainfall amounts will average .25 to .75 of an inch.

Rain should end fairly quickly behind the front, but clouds look to linger much of the day and with increasing NW winds and cold air advection it will feel much colder. Temperatures will fall into the upper 50’s and low 60’s behind the front and hold steady in that range much of the day.

High pressure builds over the region Saturday night with skies clearing and light winds expect good radiational cooling. Lows in the upper 30’s to 40 are likely and a few locations could see some frost Sunday morning.

Moisture return begins again by Monday as the next storm system heads from the Rockies toward the central plains. Dynamics look much more impressive with this upper level storm system and capping may be weaker suggesting at better shot at thunderstorms next Wednesday.

[srainhoutx]

Stay Safe SW Louisiana folks. Strong rotation with the warned cell...

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
840 AM CST SAT MAR 5 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...MERMENTAU...IOTA...CROWLEY...
NORTHEASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES KLONDIKE...
SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...LAKE ARTHUR...JENNINGS...
NORTHWESTERN VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES GUEYDAN...

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 839 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
THORNWELL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RICEVILLE...EVANGELINE...MORSE...EGAN...MOWATA...MAXIE AND LYONS
POINT

[srainhoutx]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
952 AM CST SAT MAR 5 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...OPELOUSAS...LEONVILLE...ARNAUDVILLE...
NORTHERN LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...SCOTT...LAFAYETTE...CARENCRO...
NORTHWESTERN ST. MARTIN PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES BREAUX BRIDGE...
ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...RAYNE...CROWLEY...CHURCH POINT...

* UNTIL 1030 AM CST

* AT 948 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CROWLEY...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RICHARD...BRANCH...DUSON...MIRE...CANKTON...LAWTELL...WASHINGTON...
SUNSET...GRAND COTEAU AND CECILIA

[vbhoutex]

Uh, what happened to spring? 49f and dropping here at the house with winds gusting to 35 mph steady in the 20-30 mph range. Only 0.02" of spit this am at the house.

[srainhoutx]

A bad day in Acadia Parish...

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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1155 AM CST SAT MAR 05 2011

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

0718 AM     HAIL             6 S LAKE CHARLES        30.12N 93.20W
03/05/2011  M0.25 INCH       CALCASIEU          LA   NWS EMPLOYEE

            PEA SIZE HAIL AT NWS LAKE CHARLES OFFICE

0930 AM     TSTM WND DMG     1 N CROWLEY             30.23N 92.38W
03/05/2011                   ACADIA             LA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            *** 3 INJ *** KATC REPORTS MODERATE BUILDING DAMAGE NEAR
            A WAFFLE HOUSE ALONG HWY 100 AND 13 JUST NORTH OF I-10.
            ADDITIONAL DAMAGE INCLUDES TWO RUPTURED GAS LINES. KATC
            ALSO REPORTS 3 MINOR INJURIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM.
            POSSIBLE TORNADO

1000 AM     TSTM WND DMG     RAYNE                   30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011                   ACADIA             LA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            *** 9 INJ *** KATC REPORTS 9 INJURIES INCLUDING 1 SERIOUS
            INJURY STEMMING FROM THE POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR
            RAYNE. THOSE INJURED ARE BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE RAYNE
            CIVIC CENTER AND FIRE STATION FOR TREATMENT.

1000 AM     TSTM WND DMG     RAYNE                   30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011                   ACADIA             LA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BUILDING DAMGE REPORTED BY LAFAYETTE SKYWARN SPOTTER
            NETWORK IN RAYNE. POSSIBLE TORNADO.

1000 AM     TSTM WND DMG     RAYNE                   30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011                   ACADIA             LA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ACADIA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS ROOF DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
            HOMES NEAR RAYNE.

1005 AM     MARINE TSTM WIND 21 SW ROCKEFELLER WILDL 29.44N 92.98W
03/05/2011  M48.00 MPH       GMZ452             LA   AWOS

            PLATFORM EAST CAMERON 47 MEASURED WIND GUST TO 42 KNOTS
            OR 48 MPH.

1030 AM     HAIL             WASHINGTON              30.62N 92.06W
03/05/2011  E0.25 INCH       ST. LANDRY         LA   PUBLIC

            NWS STUDENT VOLUNTEER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR
            WASHINGTON.

1140 AM     MARINE TSTM WIND 1 SSE BURNS POINT       29.56N 91.52W
03/05/2011  M42.00 MPH       ST. MARY           LA   ASOS

            NWS ASOS AT SALT POINT REPORTED WIND GUST TO 36 KNOTS OR
            42 MPH.




[vbhoutex]

Yikes, that is close to CajunMama and PTtrackerLA. It is now a confirmed EF0 tornado. Hope all is well for them!!

[CajunMama]

Yikes that weather was nasty and quite scary! Poor acadia parish. The news is saying at least 1 death, 50 injuries and now a gas leak. The high school there was hit hard. I've got some friends that live in rayne but they're east of the town and they're ok. The lost the roof to their gazebo. They were very very lucky.

[srainhoutx]

Pics from Rayne...

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs. ... 810&Ref=PH

[CajunMama]

KATC just said in a live news report that the fatality was a 21 year old woman who was protecting her daughter when a tree fell on her home. How sad.

1500 people displace tonight because of the tornado and gas leak.