SE TX/SW LA weather: Much cooler and WET after Tuesday

[jasons2k]

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1967.html

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1967
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0238 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 2009

AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF SERN TX

CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH UNLIKELY

VALID 251938Z - 252115Z

THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CAPABLE OF MAINLY DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS DISCUSSION AREA THIS
AFTERNOON. A WW IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

19Z MESOANALYSIS INDICATED THE PRESENCE OF WEAK BAROCLINIC/
CONVERGENCE ZONE EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM E OF CRS-UTS-HOU. AIR
MASS INVOF THIS BOUNDARY HAS WARMED INTO THE 90S...AND WHEN COUPLED
WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S TO LOWER 70S...ENVIRONMENT IS MODERATELY
UNSTABLE WITH MLCAPE OF 2000-2500 J/KG. WHILE SEA BREEZE TSTMS HAVE
BEEN IN PROGRESS FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS...ADDITIONAL TSTMS ARE
BEGINNING TO DEVELOP INLAND OVER WALKER COUNTY AS OF 1925Z.
CONTINUED BOUNDARY LAYER HEATING/DESTABILIZATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH
APPROACH OF MIDLEVEL VORTICITY MAXIMUM FROM THE LOWER MS VALLEY
SHOULD SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL STORMS ALONG
ABOVE-MENTIONED SURFACE BOUNDARY.

BASED ON AREA PROFILERS AND VWPS...STORMS SHOULD MOVE/DEVELOP
WWD/SWWD INTO A HOTTER BUT DRIER AIR MASS W OF SURFACE BOUNDARY.
THE COMBINATION OF STEEP LOW-LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND DCAPE OF AROUND
1500 J/KG INDICATE THE THREAT FOR LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH THE
MOST INTENSE STORMS.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Saw this elsewhere and it sure matched *some* of the posts I've seen here lately .........I hope it isn't a repeat of a previous post


Dear Diary,
Just moved to Texas! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the community pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and Sh***. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now, $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
Its 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise a** cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my a** was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and a**. . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried a**, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do sh** for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn state? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?? Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.


(Naturally the person that posted the above had to mention how, come winter, Texans will be enjoying *not* having -30 F temps, 7 foot snowdrifts, etc (though the thought of that cold probably sounds pretty good to you folks right now).

[jasons2k]

Yes, there is an identical email about snow/shoveling snow/snowmobiles and why did I ever move to (Alaska/Canada/Omaha/Minneapolis/etc.) ?

Personally, I'll take 100-degree heat over the frigid cold. I'd rather be in the pool cooling off than trying to get warm wrapped-up like a marshmellow, shivering in front of the fire with snot running down my face.


In fact, my next move will probably be to Florida where I am originally from. Even most of Texas is too cold for me in the winter and too hot in the summer. In places like Amarillo & Lubbock on the High Plains, the winters are more brutal than the summers even for "normal" people who like all 4 seasons. I survived 4 Lubbock winters and that was enough for me.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

yep I do believe I've seen that "why did I ever move to Canada/Saskatchewan/etc"

Here we can have the *pleasure of both extremes* on occasion (a high of 48 degrees Celcius, temperature and humidity, courtesy of the GOM a few years ago).

I still will gladly take the cold (we definitely are equiped for that).

Disclaimer..............I should mention that the above was originally posted by a Texan in a Texan forum.

[southerngale]

:uarrow: Yes, there is an identical email about snow/shoveling snow/snowmobiles and why did I ever move to (Alaska/Canada/Omaha/Minneapolis/etc.) ?

Personally, I'll take 100-degree heat over the frigid cold. I'd rather be in the pool cooling off than trying to get warm wrapped-up like a marshmellow, shivering in front of the fire with snot running down my face.

I have to agree. While I have complained about the excessive heat this summer, I've never seen 115F in my life and I have A/C everywhere I go, aside from being outdoors. We love our pool time!

The Texas thing was funny, but not realistic, at least here. While it's been dry this summer, rain is not something we usually have to worry about. In fact, we're above normal for rainfall much more often than we're below normal. And normal for us is a lot more than normal for many other parts of the country.

While I do envy those who get snow often, I'd really never want to live in a place that is so cold so often as I think I'd tire of it quickly. I like the snow to visit me way down here. I'd love a cool day in the 50's right about now, but by the end of our winter (I use that term loosely. lol) , I'm so ready for warmer weather!

I guess we're all lucky that we have so many climates to choose from... we can live in whichever one we prefer.

[vbhoutex]

Speaking of 100ºf we had another one here at the abode today. Showers threatened but got nothing.

[Ptarmigan]

Will this cockroach ridge go away, so we can get rain.

[Shoshana]

I saw everything from -4F to 114F when I lived in Dallas. Wind, ice, flood, drought, snow, hail, sleet, tornadoes.

Never boring!

The thing about heat waves - after 40 days in a row over 100, swimming pools aren't cool anymore and you have to dump block ice in.

[jasons2k]

The thing about heat waves - after 40 days in a row over 100, swimming pools aren't cool anymore and you have to dump block ice in.

Yes, that helps

A waterfall and underground plumbing keeps my pool relatively cool all summer. After it gets to about lo 75- hi 92/3 every day, my pool regulates at about 82F. From then on, it doesn't matter how hot it is, my pool only goes up a degree or two from there...and tops out at 84 in the severe heat waves. Now I have a LOT of underground jets and a powerful waterfall to keep it that way, but it sure works

I do remember as a kid most of the pools in Florida did not have waterfalls, and the pool water felt like a warm bathtub all summer long...especially the ones inside the lanais.

[southerngale]

I don't know where this came from, but there's a hefty storm north of here.

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
943 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...WARREN...TOWN BLUFF...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 939 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WOODVILLE...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WARREN BY 1000 PM CDT...
TOWN BLUFF BY 1025 PM CDT...
FRED BY 1040 PM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

[Yankeegirl]

I was watching that on the radar earlier! I thought it was coming my way, but at the last minute it went towards you! Big ol tent over Houston....

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

The person that originally posted the *Dear Diary* story above was born and bred in Texas and it was old hat to her...... I noticed some of the recent Texas newcomers said they hadn't heard it before. I've seen the Canadian version, a Floridian, *happily I'm sure*, sent that one to me (she really hates any cold ) and a Florida one (that one pops up often in hurricane years) but this was the first time I'd seen one concerning Texas (probably because most years it isn't that close).

The jet stream is now, thankfully, allowing heat to move up here ........ is cooler weather now moving into some parts of Texas? I wondered if that change would help move the ridge that has been sitting over Texas for so long.

[southerngale]

I was watching that on the radar earlier! I thought it was coming my way, but at the last minute it went towards you! Big ol tent over Houston....

It never got here. It went east of here and was falling apart as it did so. I had a great lightning show, though.

[Tireman4]

The person that originally posted the *Dear Diary* story above was born and bred in Texas and it was old hat to her...... I noticed some of the recent Texas newcomers said they hadn't heard it before. I've seen the Canadian version, a Floridian, *happily I'm sure*, sent that one to me (she really hates any cold ) and a Florida one (that one pops up often in hurricane years) but this was the first time I'd seen one concerning Texas (probably because most years it isn't that close).

The jet stream is now, thankfully, allowing heat to move up here ........ is cooler weather now moving into some parts of Texas? I wondered if that change would help move the ridge that has been sitting over Texas for so long.

We shall see. We shall see.

[Flyinman]

Radar looks a little promising for us this morning. I was watching those storms last night and it was very strange. All day long everything moved SW, but those storms last night began to move SE then it split, one moving SE towards Beaumont and the other one SW North of Conroe.

[jasons2k]

Radar looks a little promising for us this morning. I was watching those storms last night and it was very strange. All day long everything moved SW, but those storms last night began to move SE then it split, one moving SE towards Beaumont and the other one SW North of Conroe.

Yep, it was a right-turning supercell. I was a little concerned for those in the path of that one.

I hope we get some rain this time. This is what, the bajillionth time in a row now there have been storms from Conroe to Lake Livingston moving our way? Maybe, just maybe they will come through

[srainhoutx]

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1026 AM CDT WED AUG 26 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GRIMES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 1022 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16
MILES NORTHEAST OF MAGNOLIA...OR 8 MILES WEST OF WILLIS...AND
MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT
LIMITED TO PINEHURST...DOBBIN...AND DACUS.

[KatDaddy]

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1970
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1007 AM CDT WED AUG 26 2009

AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF SERN TX

CONCERNING...OUTLOOK UPGRADE

VALID 261507Z - 261630Z

TSTMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY TODAY WITH
THE THREAT FOR LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND PERHAPS SOME
HAIL. WIND/HAIL PROBABILITIES WILL BE INCREASED AND A CATEGORICAL
SLIGHT RISK WILL BE INCLUDED WITH THE 1630Z OUTLOOK ISSUANCE.

TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS MORNING INVOF OF LFK ON THE COOL BUT MOIST
SIDE OF STATIONARY BOUNDARY EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM CRS-UTS-BPT.
12Z AREA SOUNDINGS AND CURRENT GPS PW DATA INDICATE THAT AIR MASS
REMAINS RATHER MOIST WITH DEWPOINTS OF 65-75F AND PW VALUES OF
1.50-1.75 INCHES. WHEN COUPLED WITH THE ONSET OF STRONGER DIABATIC
HEATING...ENVIRONMENT WILL DESTABILIZE FURTHER TODAY WITH MLCAPE
APPROACHING 1500-2500 J/KG.

AS GROWING STORM-SCALE POOLS ACT ON THE DESTABILIZING AIR
MASS...EXPECT A GRADUAL INCREASE IN CONVECTIVE COVERAGE TODAY WITH
ACTIVITY MOVING/DEVELOPING SWWD WITH TIME. 12Z UPPER-AIR ANALYSIS
AND CURRENT LEDBETTER TX AND WINNFIELD LA PROFILERS INDICATE A
CORRIDOR OF HIGHER MOMENTUM NELY/NNELY FLOW ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER
VALLEY...WITHIN WRN SEMI-CIRCLE OF LOWER MS VALLEY UPPER LOW. THIS
COMBINATION OF MODERATE INSTABILITY AND VERTICAL SHEAR WILL FAVOR
THE EVOLUTION OF A MARGINAL SUPERCELL STRUCTURES AND/OR
FORWARD-PROPAGATING STORM CLUSTERS CAPABLE OF LOCALLY DAMAGING
WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL.

..MEAD.. 08/26/2009

[srainhoutx]

New Watch coming out...

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 735
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1050 AM CDT WED AUG 26 2009

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 735 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

LAC003-011-019-023-053-115-262300-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0735.090826T1550Z-090826T2300Z/

LA
. LOUISIANA PARISHES INCLUDED ARE

ALLEN BEAUREGARD CALCASIEU
CAMERON JEFFERSON DAVIS VERNON


TXC015-039-041-051-071-089-157-167-185-199-201-225-239-241-245-
291-313-321-339-351-361-373-407-455-457-471-473-477-481-
262300-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0735.090826T1550Z-090826T2300Z/

TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

AUSTIN BRAZORIA BRAZOS
BURLESON CHAMBERS COLORADO
FORT BEND GALVESTON GRIMES
HARDIN HARRIS HOUSTON
JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON
LIBERTY MADISON MATAGORDA
MONTGOMERY NEWTON ORANGE
POLK SAN JACINTO TRINITY
TYLER WALKER WALLER
WASHINGTON WHARTON


GMZ330-335-350-355-430-432-450-262300-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0735.090826T1550Z-090826T2300Z/

CW

. ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS INCLUDED ARE

MATAGORDA BAY

GALVESTON BAY

COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL TX OUT 20
NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT TX OUT 20 NM

SABINE LAKE

CALCASIEU LAKE

COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX OUT 20 NM

ATTN...WFO...LCH...HGX...

[TexasSam]

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 735
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1050 AM CDT WED AUG 26 2009

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
SOUTHEAST TEXAS
COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING AND EVENING FROM 1050 AM UNTIL
600 PM CDT.

HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65
STATUTE MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF LAKE
CHARLES LOUISIANA TO 65 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ANGLETON TEXAS.
FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

DISCUSSION...TSTMS DEVELOPING WITHIN MOIST AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE
AIR MASS /MLCAPE APPROACHING 1500-2500 J PER KG/ ARE EXPECTED TO
INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY TODAY WITH ACTIVITY
MOVING/PROPAGATING SWD/SWWD TOWARD THE GULF COAST. THE PRESENCE OF
MODERATELY STRONG MID AND HIGH-LEVEL FLOW ON WRN PERIPHERY OF LOWER
MS VALLEY VORTICITY MAXIMUM WILL SUPPORT THE EVOLUTION OF
FORWARD-PROPAGATING STORM CLUSTERS AND PERHAPS SOME MARGINAL
SUPERCELLS WITH THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SOME HAIL.

AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT
TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60
KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM
MOTION VECTOR 02030.


...MEAD/WEISS