Texas Spring-2015

[Ntxw]

It's quickly becoming a bow echo line, probably some short lived spinning tornadoes in the areas with the TOR warning.

[TarrantWx]

Complain and your wishes shall be granted I guess? lol. Very powerful line of storms moving through DFW right now. Watch out everyone. My parents in Keller lost a fence and according to NWS twitter account large trees were being uprooted in Burleson by straight line winds. Tornado hit Oak Trail Shores earlier. Wouldn't be surprised to see a few more spin-ups on the leading edge of this line. Look out Arlington and Flower Mound/Trophy Club right now and then Dallas county you're next. Professor, interested to hear what's happening in your neck of the woods. Flash Flooding will be the next concern if this heavy rain continues.

[Shoshana]

0.9 of an inch at the Weatherdude casa today. Most rain I have had in about a month.

.6 down here in South Austin.

As of this morning, .65" here

Waiting to see where the storms in the Hill Country are heading

[Shoshana]

our weather radio just alarmed with a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. We're east of I35

9:14 pm another alarm. Just heard thunder

[weatherdude1108]

Pouring rain here with lots of wind and lightning\thunder and some hail bits mixed in up in south Cedar Park/far north Austin!

[Shoshana]

Pouring rain here with lots of wind and lightning\thunder and some hail bits mixed in up in south Cedar Park/far north Austin!

Rain, lightning, no hail. Hopefully we will avoid hail.

[CentralTxAggie]

Pouring rain here with lots of wind and lightning\thunder and some hail bits mixed in up in south Cedar Park/far north Austin!

Rain, lightning, no hail. Hopefully we will avoid hail.

Ditto down here, no hail thankfully.

[Shoshana]

Pouring rain here with lots of wind and lightning\thunder and some hail bits mixed in up in south Cedar Park/far north Austin!

Rain, lightning, no hail. Hopefully we will avoid hail.

Ditto down here, no hail thankfully.

Seems to be over. No hail!

[weatherdude1108]

Not sure if I heard hail or really big rain drops. Probably big drops. We got 0.65 out of it in about 15 or 20 minutes. 1.65 over the last couple days. Oh, and my thermometer reads 58.3 degrees right now!

Didn't expect that. I can literally blow steam outside. It must have been a mini-microburst which brought down cold air from aloft(?). Anyway, CHILLY, but feels great, and it is wet!

[CentralTxAggie]

Not sure if I heard hail or really big rain drops. Probably big drops. We got 0.65 out of it in about 15 or 20 minutes. 1.65 over the last couple days. Oh, and my thermometer reads 58.3 degrees right now!

Didn't expect that. I can literally blow steam outside. It must have been a mini-microburst which brought down cold air from aloft(?). Anyway, CHILLY, but feels great, and it is wet!

.32 in our hood.

[Portastorm]

It didn't last long but while it did, tonight's storm was packing a punch. Got 0.60" of rain here at the Portastorm Weather Center along with pea to marble sized hail. Hail lasted 5 minutes. Storm lasted 20 mins.

[Brent]

Sitting at 2" of rain in the rain gauge between last night's line and tonight's line. Tonight's line definitely weakened on this side of the metroplex, but still had a decent sustained non-severe wind that I observed while outside at work, also a brief period of pea sized hail. I've seen no damage anywhere. The big story to me was the sick lightning when I was driving home(over an hour after the line hit in the rain behind it), entire strikes were across the sky several times. I wish I could have gotten pictures... lol.

[Ralph's Weather]

Got 2" last night. The first inch fell in less than 15 mins. We went from nothing to rates nearing 10"/hr in about a minute sounded like hail. Thankfully no hail or strong winds. We are up around 24" for the year.

[Ntxw]

As of this morning DFW has received 3.08 inches of rain for the month. Average for the entire month is 3.07 inches. After a few days of calm weather by midweek the pattern will repeat which likely guaranty that we finally will have an above normal rain month. May looks wet as well.

Austin is a little below normal for April, lets work on that. Houston and San Antonio are all in good terms.

While it is still too early sign of wet soils and vegetation hint at yet another cool summer. If everything is still green and lush by late May, and the persistence of southern stream storms then we can pretty much predict the overall trends for summer.

[aggiecutter]

[TexasF6]

Anyone else worried about the favorable severe conditions WEST of the SPC's line? I know moisture is close to only an inch output? BUT the old dry line may have something in store for Central Texas today. Mexico is already having storms develop across the border.......Aggiecutter? What do you think?

[Portastorm]

Anyone else worried about the favorable severe conditions WEST of the SPC's line? I know moisture is close to only an inch output? BUT the old dry line may have something in store for Central Texas today. Mexico is already having storms develop across the border.......Aggiecutter? What do you think?

I'm not. Most of the vorticity and instability in the atmosphere has moved to our east/northeast. Aggiecutter's area will be under the gun today. As for those Mexican storms, they usually fire off the Burro mountains in the spring. Shouldn't be a big deal and won't impact the AUS area.

Wish I had an anemometer. I wondered just how strong the storm's outflow last night was ... had to have gusts in the 50-60 mph range at house. The winds, IMO, were more impressive than the hail down here. But I know areas of Lakeway into the central metro area got hammered worse with the hail.

[TheProfessor]

I don't know the exact wind speeds, but we probably had gusts of 70 mph at some points, the good thing is that when the hail came down here the winds had calmed a bit.

[TexasF6]

Anyone else worried about the favorable severe conditions WEST of the SPC's line? I know moisture is close to only an inch output? BUT the old dry line may have something in store for Central Texas today. Mexico is already having storms develop across the border.......Aggiecutter? What do you think?

I'm not. Most of the vorticity and instability in the atmosphere has moved to our east/northeast. Aggiecutter's area will be under the gun today. As for those Mexican storms, they usually fire off the Burro mountains in the spring. Shouldn't be a big deal and won't impact the AUS area.

Wish I had an anemometer. I wondered just how strong the storm's outflow last night was ... had to have gusts in the 50-60 mph range at house. The winds, IMO, were more impressive than the hail down here. But I know areas of Lakeway into the central metro area got hammered worse with the hail.

Thanks Porta! I see an area of CAPE at 4500 sitting atop us!!!! But yes, last night was awesome. Those clouds were amazing in the lightening! I had to hurry home from some great BBQ at Stiles & Switch!

[aggiecutter]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 81
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
230 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 81 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

TXC005-015-021-037-041-051-067-071-073-089-149-183-185-199-201-
203-225-241-245-285-287-291-313-315-339-347-351-361-365-373-401-
403-405-407-419-455-457-471-473-477-200100-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0081.150419T1930Z-150420T0100Z/

TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ANGELINA AUSTIN BASTROP
BOWIE BRAZOS BURLESON
CASS CHAMBERS CHEROKEE
COLORADO FAYETTE GREGG
GRIMES HARDIN HARRIS
HARRISON HOUSTON JASPER
JEFFERSON LAVACA LEE
LIBERTY MADISON MARION
MONTGOMERY NACOGDOCHES NEWTON
ORANGE PANOLA POLK
RUSK SABINE SAN AUGUSTINE
SAN JACINTO SHELBY TRINITY
TYLER WALKER WALLER
WASHINGTON
$$