ATL: TROPICAL DEPRESSION ALEX - DISCUSSION

[jasons2k]

galveston conditions-

Station GPST2
NOS
Location: 29.285N 94.788W
Conditions as of:
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:00:00 UTC

Winds: NE (40°) at 29.9 kt gusting to 33.0 kt
Air Temperature: 83.8 F
Water Temperature: 87.1 F

I'm down here on Galveston now and a decent squall went through again.

The waves are crashing against the seawall and it certainly looks like a storm is offshore.

Overall though, it's just not that bad and not much to write home about. The neatest thing is watching the clouds scoot by so fast but I saw that even at the house this morning up in Montgomery County...

[sandyb]

so hope we get some action on the east coast this year this is a good start but not for the gulf dead year last year

[TexasF6]

Alex is still right of where he is supposed to be......

[Buck]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/flash-rgb.html

A beautiful first storm of the season.

[Evil Jeremy]

So it looks like it is headed WNW according to recon.

[HURAKAN]

Great map of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas

[Sanibel]

Laguna Madre it is.


Mexico is lucky Yucatan is there as a speed brake.


Filtering out the dry air, developing a small eye, all the signs of going large if it had more water.

[Aric Dunn]

you know radar coupled with the two wind maxima sure do make a decent case for a ERC...although it does not seen to fit in the life cycle of Alex... its more lilke just the dry air thats doing it..

[Sanibel]

The inner donut and dry wall slot is very similar to Charley.

[cycloneye]

Impressive radar.

[CrazyC83]

Laguna Madre it is.


Mexico is lucky Yucatan is there as a speed brake.


Filtering out the dry air, developing a small eye, all the signs of going large if it had more water.

As long as it doesn't pull a Charley coming ashore...don't want it going from a Cat 2 to a Cat 4 in the last few hours...and there is history of that in that region, Celia in 1970 did exactly that (officially was a strong Cat 3 at landfall but probably was a Cat 4, and had been bombing out on approach).

[CrazyC83]

Tornado reported just now in the Houston area.

1905 6 E WADSWORTH HARRIS TX 2983 9583 TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED SEEING A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF WADSWORTH. THE TORNADO CAUSED MINIMAL DAMAGE IN A PASTURE. (HGX)

[Aric Dunn]

Alex is still right of where he is supposed to be......

well sort of.. its been consistently north of its previous tracks and is again north of the forecast track.. this of course will put Brownsville more and more into the strongest winds.. the eye may even skim the area if the current motion continues.. so even if it makes landfall in Mexico it wont matter because the worst will be in texas

[thetruesms]

CIMSS blog post on Alex, it's a quick and interesting read, with plenty of imagery:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/5952

[tolakram]

Sharp left turn, as many expected.

[tolakram]

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[Evil Jeremy]

Heading WNW now, but Brownsville should be experiencing near hurricane gusts and winds throughout the rest of the day.

[RachelAnna]

Tornado reported just now in the Houston area.

1905 6 E WADSWORTH HARRIS TX 2983 9583 TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED SEEING A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF WADSWORTH. THE TORNADO CAUSED MINIMAL DAMAGE IN A PASTURE. (HGX)

Definitely getting some strange weather out here....

[KWT]

Yep, the NW motion that occured for a while has done the damage even though Alex is now on a WNW heading again...Bro will indeed probably get hurricane force gusts.

[HURAKAN]

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