Texas Summer 2012

[vbhoutex]

Yikes, that is the kind of rainfall rates we had during Allison. Some gauges recorded 9"/hr. rates for brief periods during that little rainstorm.
Looks like most of SE and SC TX is going to get rain in copious amounts today, especially with the intense line building to the SE of metro Houston and moving NE. Gonna have to watch that for sure. May need to go pick up the wife in the SUV before it gets too bad.

[weatherdude1108]

The weatherdude office has received roughly 0.65 inch since Monday morning. Other people I work with have received 4 inches. It really is hit or miss. Maybe we'll get in on some more action today.

[Portastorm]

The weatherdude office has received roughly 0.65 inch since Monday morning. Other people I work with have received 4 inches. It really is hit or miss. Maybe we'll get in on some more action today.

The Portastorm Weather Center in scenic southwest Austin/Travis County has received 3.05 inches of rain since Monday morning. I cannot believe it but am very grateful for it!\

[weatherdude1108]

The weatherdude office has received roughly 0.65 inch since Monday morning. Other people I work with have received 4 inches. It really is hit or miss. Maybe we'll get in on some more action today.

The Portastorm Weather Center in scenic southwest Austin/Travis County has received 3.05 inches of rain since Monday morning. I cannot believe it but am very grateful for it!\

That is awesome Portastorm! Congratulations!! I am hoping something came over my area today. I'll have to check when I get home. If not, well, at least the grass won't need watering for several days.

[weatherdude1108]

Yikes, that is the kind of rainfall rates we had during Allison. Some gauges recorded 9"/hr. rates for brief periods during that little rainstorm.
Looks like most of SE and SC TX is going to get rain in copious amounts today, especially with the intense line building to the SE of metro Houston and moving NE. Gonna have to watch that for sure. May need to go pick up the wife in the SUV before it gets too bad.

That is CRAZY. 9"/hr?! May as well have a waterfall dumping on your head. AMAZING.

[jasons2k]

1.63" the last 24 hours for me - I am a happy camper.

[gboudx]

This just came in from Jeff Lindner:

Since 500am this morning radar indicates a small area of 6-9 inches of rainfall near Webberville.

Bastrop County OEM has issued an evacuation order for all residents on Comanche Trail off of FM 969. If trapped residents should call 911…the fire department is en route to conduct swift water rescues.

Radar shows a small area of very heavy rainfall continuing along the Bastrop/Travis County line nearly stationary. Additional rainfall of 1-2 inches may occur and this will worsen ongoing flooding of small creeks that are already out of banks.

We were at the Lost Pines Resort when this happened. The Colorado river had to rise at least 4'. It rained so much at the resort that parts of the grounds were ponds most of the day. The swimming area they have at the resort was so flooded with rain and debris that they closed it for 2 days. This sucked for us since this and the hiking and rafting was the reason we chose it for our vacation. All hiking was prohibited and no rafting/kayaking either. We were supposed to leave tomorrow but I told them that we were leaving today due to the resort being mostly devoid of everything we planned to do there. To their credit they understood and didn't argue about not charging us for tonight.

[Portastorm]

Sorry to hear you had such a lousy experience. Lost Pines is usually awesome. But yeah that area got hit hard the other morning.

How ironic that only 10 months after that same piece of real estate resembled Hell on Earth, it was flooded.

[somethingfunny]

That's a ton of rainfall. When it rains it pours....

.... unless it splits apart at the last minute before reaching your house, that is.



Y'all try and stay dry down there!

[weatherdude1108]

1.1 inches in the gauge at the weatherdude HQ. This is cumulative since Monday morning. Not since, like, "10 minutes ago" which seems to be common with this juicy tropical air mass. Weather guy Jim Spencer tonight said new computer model data has this Low drifting back to the west instead of the east line originally thought. Translation: rain lovers are going to like it. I noticed Accuweather, Weather Channel, and WUND picking up on the info. As it approaches mid-July and hottest average time of year, I say Bring it!

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

and now the Northern prairies song is yours Texas!
From
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-GMU2IBuno[/youtube]

to
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUVK-qWd6Q&feature=related[/youtube]

to

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEQaN52n6g[/youtube]

and underneath the above video the poster said (with usual Saskatchewan dryness):
How the 2011 Flood has affected us here at Riding Rain Ranch. Music is Ian Tyson singing "Moisture," which is my idea of irony ... we should change the line to "May we never see this much again!"

[gboudx]

:uarrow:

Sorry to hear you had such a lousy experience. Lost Pines is usually awesome. But yeah that area got hit hard the other morning.

How ironic that only 10 months after that same piece of real estate resembled Hell on Earth, it was flooded.

It wasnt completely lousy We were able to hike and raft 1 day, and enjoy the water park for 1.5 days. But the resort is so secluded, going do anything else would be quite a drive. At least they sorta handled it right. Personally I think they should've been working on the water park all night considering its probably the main attraction for families vacationing there. Without the hiking and water park, there's only so much biking, horse shoe throwing and hoops you can shoot.

somethingfunny, that tstorm dumped 0.25" here in NW Rockwall county.

[horselattitudesfarm]

That's a ton of rainfall. When it rains it pours....

.... unless it splits apart at the last minute before reaching your house, that is.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2up63pi.gif

Y'all try and stay dry down there!

That kind of stuff happens to us all the time. Makes me feel better that its not only us....I start to take this stuff personally I can't seem to insert graphics into posts, how do you do it?

[weatherdude1108]

That's a ton of rainfall. When it rains it pours....

.... unless it splits apart at the last minute before reaching your house, that is.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2up63pi.gif

Y'all try and stay dry down there!

That kind of stuff happens to us all the time. Makes me feel better that its not only us....I start to take this stuff personally I can't seem to insert graphics into posts, how do you do it?

That has happened to us too. The only day this week it didn't happen was yesterday. Even yesterday, the heaviest stuff seemed to barely touch us before moving south and southwest. We got about 0.4-inch when others just a mile or so to the east got 1-2 inches! It is like there is a wall or barrier around our little area of earth. I have been taking it personally. But, on the glass half-full side, there is 1.1 inches showing in our gauge since Monday, which is still nice considering it is July 12th in Texas.

[Tireman4]

Dear Lord, it has been raining here. Goodness gracious. I think the High Pressure Ridge of Death from last year is laughing. Really laughing. Goodness.

[vbhoutex]

Dear Lord, it has been raining here. Goodness gracious. I think the High Pressure Ridge of Death from last year is laughing. Really laughing. Goodness.

My guess is that it is rolling on the ground, hee hawing, pounding its fists and flooding somewhere else because it is crying from laughing so hard. My son has had 13" of rain in Cypress since yesterday!! Much of his area is flooded, but so far his house is fine. I am on call in case we have to start moving stuff upstairs. I've had 3.23" today. Fortunately, at the moment, the rain appears to be over for our area. *vb runs for cover fearing massive lightning strikes*

[Rgv20]

The rain has just been wnw of my area the past couple of days....Hopefully I can get in the action!

FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
409 PM CDT THU JUL 12 2012

TXC247-427-505-122230-
/O.NEW.KBRO.FA.Y.0052.120712T2109Z-120712T2230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
JIM HOGG-STARR-ZAPATA-
409 PM CDT THU JUL 12 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED AN

* ARROYO AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RAPID ARROYO RISES IN...
SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.
NORTHWESTERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VIBORAS

SOUTHEASTERN ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS INDICATED
RAINFALL RATES OF TWO INCHES PER HOUR FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
NOW OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG AND NORTHWESTERN STARR
COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY WEST AT
AROUND 5 MPH AND WILL LIKELY IMPACT THE TOWN OF GUERRA IN JIM HOGG
COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY.

RAPID RISING STREAMS OR ARROYOS WILL EXCEED THEIR BANKS BY UP TO 1
FOOT. THIS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF NEARBY LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE
TO HIGHER GROUND.

DON`T BECOME A STATISTIC. TURN AROUND...DON`T DROWN!

&&

LAT...LON 2701 9872 2658 9875 2658 9909 2702 9908

$$

SPEECE

[Portastorm]

Rgv20, your rain chances should stick around all weekend. Some of the Texas WFOs this afternoon were mentioning that we'll be dealing with an inverted trough over south Texas for much of the weekend. So, you'll probably get in on the Texas Rain Party which some of us have been enjoying this week ... although it appears some of our friends in southeast Texas today have had too much to drink!

[Rgv20]

I think tomorrow Friday should be our best shot of some widespread Rain for the Rio Grande Valley and looking until the weekend convection should be trigger more by the Seabreeze front. We will take any rain we can get!

[vbhoutex]

:uarrow: I think tomorrow Friday should be our best shot of some widespread Rain for the Rio Grande Valley and looking until the weekend convection should be trigger more by the Seabreeze front. We will take any rain we can get!

Will you please take ours?