STORM2K

Severe thunderstorm watch now in effect until 6pm today. Not too often we see one of these in June, should be a interesting afternoon.

Looks like the aftermath of last night's strong windstorms in Oklahoma. They are still going strong.

Man, I hate when we get these MCS/northwesterly flow synoptics because they typically are much more violent than the garden variety afternoon seabreeze t-storms. It got pretty rough here this afternoon with several tornado warnings issued and a lot of wind, lightning and torrential rain. I called my son (who is at home) to warn him that the TV mets had seen "indications of vorticity" on the radar in the vicinity of our neighborhood. He said he had never seen the clouds, as he put it, "swirling around and so close to the ground."

I told him to please quit staring at the sky and get back in the *@%& house.

I wish I could have seen it too.

I'm wondering if those are the horrendous storms that blew through Southwest Houston... Completely missed the Northern half of town. [Heck, the airports didn't measure a single trace of rainfall during the three hours of heavy downpours in the Southern half of the city.]

A family member just reported seeing some of the worst weather he's ever seen. He was down near Donaldsonville. There was a tornado reported near Prairieville. Any time you start seeing the storms in southern Louisian coming from a northerly direction, whether that be northwest, north, or northeast, watch out. All of the darkest clouds and most impressive cloud formations I've ever seen have come with storms coming out of the north or northeast, and they usually pack some very serious winds also. I can't tell you how many really scary looking squall lines I've seen come from the SW or W only to weaken when they get to Baton Rouge, but the summer storms from the northeast rarely weaken. Also, don't forget the lightning, as those "northers" tend to be very high lightning producers.

Just had a heft thunderstorm at my workplace, I estimate 1.5"-2" of rain fell in about 30 minutes. Of course it looks like over by my house got skipped but we got a nice storm last night. It's almost like the outflow boundary has gotten hung up in a NW-SE fashion across Lafayette parish, could have another storm here shortly.