Heavy Widespread Rains for SE TX Today

KatDaddy · #1 Postby **KatDaddy** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:32 am

Large area of heavy rains sagging slowly S to the Houston-Galveston Areas while more development occurs out to the W near Austin. Numerous Flash Flooding Warnings in effect just NW of SE TX. Looks to be a very wet afternoon.

#2 Postby **Portastorm** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:35 am

If y'all get anything like us ... it's already rained more than 2 inches in north Austin in the last few hours. We have a FFW right now. Many cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. I counted 10 of them in a 7-mile drive from my house to work. One of them popped a pole generator right by my car! :eek:

We're getting hammered right now.

#3 Postby **Roxy** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:05 am

I hope so, but according to the radar it's going to slide just north of where I am. We sure do need the rain though.

JenBayles · #4 Postby **JenBayles** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:46 am

Having a lovely rainy morning here in West Houston. Nothing too terribly heavy, but a really good soaker. Hope it keeps up a while!

PTrackerLA · #5 Postby **PTrackerLA** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:13 pm

Hopefully it all slides my way later today, we really need the rain. The radar has sure lit up south of Houston though.

cctxhurricanewatcher · #6 Postby **cctxhurricanewatcher** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:27 pm

I heard Thunder!!!!!! For the first time since early November and it's sprinkling outside and quite dark to my north. Please, oh please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#7 Postby **jasons2k** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:49 pm

I think Corpus is gonna get a good one out of this. We had some good soaking rains here, but not enough Thunder for me...maybe again tomorrow....

cctxhurricanewatcher · #8 Postby **cctxhurricanewatcher** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:33 pm

It's coming!!! Yahoo!!! :cheesy:

ROCK · #9 Postby **ROCK** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:05 pm

got about a .50

cctxhurricanewatcher · #10 Postby **cctxhurricanewatcher** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:48 pm

Alot of bark (thunder and lightning) and little bite (.25 of rain at my house). Some areas south and west of me in very isolated spots got 2 to 4 inches so if it helps those farmers and ranchers, good for them.

But I learned two things today.

1) My windsheild wipers still work on my truck.

2) My rain guage still holds rainwater.

Yankeegirl · #11 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:22 pm

We got some good rain here today (west side of town) I was out running errands in it all day, and when I got home it was sunny... Go Figure...Supposed to rain tomorrow too, I have to work, so hopefully it will be a sloooooow day!!

Extremeweatherguy · #12 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:56 pm

Yeah it was a weird day today. Constant rain from mid morning through mid afternoon and then the sun broke out during the late afternoon (and it became mostly sunny for a few hours). Clouds should build back in overnight with another 50-70% chance of rain tomorrow.

Yankeegirl · #13 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:05 am

Good, I like the rain

PTrackerLA · #14 Postby **PTrackerLA** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:06 am

Only had a few drops today. Tomorrow we have a 50% chance but I'm not holding out much hope since we miss every system. Sprinkler time is here! :grrr:

#15 Postby **jasons2k** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:37 am

I had .96" yesterday - hoping for more today

southerngale · #16 Postby **southerngale** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:00 pm

I've been hearing this odd, unfamiliar booming, rumbling sound come from the sky, preceded by flashes of light. :?:

What is going on?

Oh, and get this: Some water, yes WATER, has fallen from the sky. :eek:

Omgosh... The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

#17 Postby **jasons2k** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:39 pm

WOW - the radar looks very promising right now - and it's actually moving this way!

Extremeweatherguy · #18 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:55 pm

yes! Storms are actually moving toward us, and there is even a warning out for a cell north of Beaumont. Hopefully Harris County will see a warning for the cells developing in the western part of the county...if we do, then a nice lightning show could be in store! Also, the NWS has put out this special weather statement:

...FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE TODAY...

A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE TODAY WHICH WILL RESULT
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. CONDITIONS ARE ALSO FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SHORT-LIVED FUNNEL CLOUDS. FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED EARLIER IN
WHARTON COUNTY...NORTHEAST OF EL CAMPO. WHILE NONE ARE CURRENTLY
EXPECTED TO TOUCH DOWN AND BECOME TORNADOES...THERE IS ALWAYS A
REMOTE POSSIBILITY THAT A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN COULD OCCUR.

THEREFORE..RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO TO
THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND AVOID ANY OBSERVED FUNNEL CLOUDS.

Extremeweatherguy · #19 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:57 pm

Also from the NWS: REPORTS OF DIME SIZE HAIL ALONG THE FORT BEND AND HARRIS
COUNTY LINE NEAR SOUTHWEST HOUSTON AT 2:20 PM.

^^Those are the storms heading north toward my area!!!^^

Yankeegirl · #20 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:48 pm

We got a good amount of rain up at work today and hail... Good sized hail too... Nasty thunder and lightning and blinding rain up in the Willowbrook area around 330-4 pm today... It was nice!

Heavy Widespread Rains for SE TX Today

Heavy Widespread Rains for SE TX Today

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