Look at the North Western Gulf: Alicia type formation??

[baygirl_1]

We had a storm this am and I thought I saw a funnel forming. The cloud had tendrils and they were getting lower and looked to be rotating. I was too busy trying to get the dogs inside to take a picture of it.

Didn't Biloxi have a tornado warning this morning? Things were crazy around here this morning (extra kids!), so I couldn't check out any weather. When my sister stopped by, she said she'd heard there was a tornado warning in Biloxi earlier.

[HeeBGBz]

Didn't Biloxi have a tornado warning this morning? Things were crazy around here this morning (extra kids!), so I couldn't check out any weather. When my sister stopped by, she said she'd heard there was a tornado warning in Biloxi earlier.

Yikes, no, I hadn't heard that. Whatever it was blew in quick after a very hard rain had just drenched us. It was a very dark cloud that looked like it was heading straight at us (I was at work in Woolmarket/Biloxi at the time) then it shifted just east of us. What I saw didn't touch the ground, but it looked very similar to video I've seen of tornado clouds and those little swirling tendrils. They were dropping down and looked like they were rotating around each other.

[Opal storm]

Yeah I heard about that tornado warning in Biloxi this morning, our local met mentioned it.

[canegrl04]

Besides hurricanes,cloud formations fascinate me

[HeeBGBz]

Me too. I'm constantly photographing the sky. This time of year the cloud formations are so beautiful. Big tall towering things.

[Sanibel]

Poof

[canetracker]

We'll see in the a.m. It does not look all together like it is a "poof" system to me.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/gmex/loop-ir2.html
Comments welcome.

[HeeBGBz]

Interesting swirl just south of the Louisiana/Texas border.

[Sjones]

Poof

I will be very suprised if it doesn't survive. Don't think this one is going poof anytime soon.

[HouTXmetro]

What is that swirling south of Galveston?

[Stratosphere747]

The pattern we seem to be in will continue to have these storm complexes move off the coast, making things look "interesting", along with bursts in the WGOM, from the interaction.

BOC might be an area to keep a eye on instead. I believe the NAM, *yes the NAM* was showing something weak moving up from the BOC. Nothing really organized, but a spurt of energy.

[jrod]

There is an interesting swirl that looks vigourous at 29N 93W about to go in to Louisiana. It will move inland and dissapte in a few hours and is not much of anything but it got my attention.

[Sanibel]

I see a turning center SSW of Brownsville over Mexico. Uncertain of type.

[Kludge]

This is one where my memory actually serves me well.

I walked up to my boss one early August day, and said "there's something really 'interesting' in the Gulf this morning. I showed him a picture of a very white and circular mass of clouds in the Bay of Campeche. He said..."hmmmm"... and continued to work (probably wondering why he'd hired such an idiot/geek).

A few days later I'm walking through a sea of glass in downtown Houston to try to get to my office and retrieve enough files to work from home. The following week I see him, and he says, "the next time you see a blob of clouds, I'm packing the car and heading for Wisconsin".

Anyway...the clouds we're seeing today are a bit too West and a bit to vertically elongated to spur any Alicia memories. But.you.never.know.