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#181 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:10 am

PS - when the sun started to come up you can see the low level clouds are racing NE at incredible speeds. It looks like a tropical cyclone except the coulds are going the wrong direction...
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#182 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:11 am

jschlitz wrote:PS - when the sun started to come up you can see the low level clouds are racing NE at incredible speeds. It looks like a tropical cyclone except the coulds are going the wrong direction...
yeah, there is some serious shear in the atmosphere. Pretty much any storm that forms will become a mesocyclone today.
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#183 Postby Johnny » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:12 am

Do any of y'all have a close up radar that I can zoom in on????
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#184 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:13 am

I have bad feeling about what may happen when the ULL over central TX gets here later on:

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/sfc/satsfcnps.gif
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#185 Postby JenBayles » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:13 am

'Gale - there's an upper level low west of Houston that's also helping pull all this rain towards SE TX. Couple that with the warm front moving through and the surface low, well - until that moves east of here, it's gonna be nasty for all of SE TX and LA.
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#186 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:18 am

Johnny wrote:Do any of y'all have a close up radar that I can zoom in on????


Hey Johnnny - some of the local TV stations zoom in for you.

I'm trying to upload some GR3 images now. Trying to beat my 8:30 meeting.
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#187 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:20 am

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#188 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:23 am

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#189 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:27 am

Here is an older image when it was almost on top of the house:

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Most recent "clean" image:

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Tip on these - click the images TWICE (once on the thumb - again on the loaded image) to display full resolution.
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#190 Postby Johnny » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:30 am

Thanks jschlitz!
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#191 Postby JenBayles » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:30 am

Glad to finally hear from you schlitz! I was wondering if you got floated on the way to work or something.
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#192 Postby Johnny » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:30 am

Do these images stay current after clicking refresh?
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#193 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:33 am

Johnny wrote:Do these images stay current after clicking refresh?


No unfortunately they are static images. They are all time stamped on the right.

Someday I may publish to a website, but for now I just upload them manually.
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#194 Postby JenBayles » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:33 am

FYI - KHOU.com has good a list of incidents and road closures:

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/roadclosures/
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#195 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:38 am

Tidal surge flooding for the west end of Galveston now.
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#196 Postby Yankeegirl » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:48 am

I think I am going to try and go back to bed... I am really not feeling well... I think its a combo of no sleep (cause of the weathe radio constnanly going off allllll night) and I think I am getting a cold... ug... I cant sleep... We are supposed to get more later on today or what ?
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#197 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:49 am

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#198 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:50 am

From Jeff:

Countywide flooding in progress.

Several watersheds at bankfull or rising above banks.

Bankfull conditions:

Halls
Hunting
Cypress
Clear
White Oak
Greens

Tides are running 3.0-4.5 feet above normal resulting in minor coastal flooding. Flooding is occurring around Clear Lake and along portions of Clear Creek.

Flooding along Cypress Creek will worsen as the day progresses and more rain falls.

Numerous interstates are impassable at this time and travel is discouraged.
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#199 Postby Portastorm » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:56 am

Any confirmed tornado touchdowns in your area yet? The only thing I see from NWS is something around Magnolia Beach at 3:45 a.m.
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#200 Postby jasons2k » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:59 am

What I can't get over is in looking at the radar loop - the isolated low-level cells - mostly offhsore and east of Houston - feeding into the main convection to the NW -- those things are just moving SO fast. It indicates the LLJ must be blowing at incredible speeds. This whole situation, in a practical sense, is really not any different than a TS making landfall - just incredible.
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