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#1981 Postby ravyrn » Fri May 29, 2015 11:34 am

weatherdude1108 wrote:Update:

There were a lot of tree limbs down on our street and neighborhood from this morning's squall line at about 1:00am. I took pics, but not sure how to post here. One neighbor down on the other street had a large Bradford Pear tree limb fall on her SUV. Another Bradford Pear limb split in nearby church parking lot. We thankfully just had leaves and twigs down, with one medium size already dead tree branch fall down. I am ready for some calm.


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#1982 Postby wxman57 » Fri May 29, 2015 11:44 am

gboudx wrote:Couple updates from jeff:

Dangerous flash flood event underway over the NW portions of SE TX into SC TX.

Tremendous rainfall rates along a training band of thunderstorms from near San Antonio to College Station. Hourly rainfall rates nearing 3-5 inches under this band is leading to an extremely dangerous flash flood situation. Line continues to slow is forward motion and appears to be anchoring its southwest flank while very favorable low level inflow remain south of the line over all of SE TX. This is a very favorable flash flood setup capable of producing some extreme rainfall totals in a short period of time.

High resolution meso models want to bring this line slowly into SE TX and then toward I-10 by later this evening. Should the boundary become west-east facing the flash flood threat will increase even more as the low level flow will becomes perpendicular to the boundary. Training cells with excessive rainfall rates will be possible at least NW of a line from Columbus to Huntsville…but could be displaced more southward closer to I-10. Will just have to watch radar trends to see how far south the storms will build.


Radar shows rapid development of training excessive rainfall from north of San Antonio to west of Austin ahead of eastward moving line of thunderstorms and cluster of tornadic supercells over SC TX. Strong SE low level flow is pumping copious moisture NW into C TX feeding training supercells and thunderstorm cells. Given saturated grounds and rainfall rates of 1-3 inches per hour with these storms rapid flash flooding of creeks and rivers will be possible where extended period of training establishes. Current radar trends suggest at least this is possible along and just west of I-35 from NE of San Antonio to Austin to south of Waco.

As experienced Sunday morning the rivers in this area are capable of tremendous rises in a short period of time with excessive rainfall.

Thunderstorm activity at current is focused across:

Llano River
Pedernales River
Blanco River
Middle Colorado River
San Gabriel River
Little River


Those emails were from Monday.
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Re: Texas Spring-2015

#1983 Postby Brent » Fri May 29, 2015 11:59 am

funster wrote:
gboudx wrote:
Brent wrote:Do you know what the wettest month ever is by chance?


Searching through this table, it appears 17.64" in April 1922. But that is when the official station was in downtown Ft. Worth.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=dmoprecip


There's a chart on the bottom of this page also:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=dapravgtp

These are the only two months ever higher than this current month for DFW:

April 1922 with 17.64 inches
April 1942 with 16.97 inches


Cool site and thanks.
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Re: Texas Spring-2015

#1984 Postby ravyrn » Fri May 29, 2015 2:58 pm

What bridges are open over the Red River east of Texoma? My mom and stepdad will be going to Arkansas for a 5 day camping vacation next Friday. Is US 259 open over the Red River?

EDIT: US 259 is closed. Can anyone tell me the closest safe crossing of the Red River east of Texoma from the Jacksonville, TX area heading towards Arkansas?
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#1985 Postby dhweather » Fri May 29, 2015 3:33 pm

I feel so shortchanged, only 9.09" in Heath. :lol: :lol: :lol:


Lakes with water in them - imagine that! Only part I hate is the loss of life and property, extremely unfortunate.
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#1986 Postby aggiecutter » Fri May 29, 2015 3:42 pm

ravyrn wrote:What bridges are open over the Red River east of Texoma? My mom and stepdad will be going to Arkansas for a 5 day camping vacation next Friday. Is US 259 open over the Red River?

EDIT: US 259 is closed. Can anyone tell me the closest safe crossing of the Red River east of Texoma from the Jacksonville, TX area heading towards Arkansas?


The Interstate 30 Red River bridge at Fulton, Arkansas(which is about 15 miles NE of Texarkana is still open. If you need to get to Highway 71 north of Texarkana, here is an alternate route that takes you over the Red River bridge at Fulton, which is still open. BTW, where in Arkansas are they going?

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#1987 Postby weatherdude1108 » Fri May 29, 2015 3:47 pm

Here are some pics I took this morning of the squall line damage in my neighborhood. Some of them are blurry as I was doing drive-bye's. I thankfully didn't have anything except twigs and leaves, with a medium sized dead branch that fell in the backyard. So much for these storms weakening as they approached the metro Austin area. Austin itself fared better than Cedar Park.

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#1988 Postby ravyrn » Fri May 29, 2015 4:12 pm

Thank you for the info! They are going to the northern part of Arkansas. I am not sure where exactly. I don't really ask questions. I just house sit when they go out of town because they live in the boonies near Maydelle, TX and my stepdad has around $100,000 of tools/equipment in his shop next to the house so I stay there while they go out of town to try to prevent any theft. I live in a small apartment in Jacksonville so it's nice to get out of town, and my dog loves their place, and they have lots of yummy food in the fridge when I house sit :P

EDIT: I think they're going around Mountain Home.
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#1989 Postby aggiecutter » Fri May 29, 2015 4:57 pm

If they are going to Mountain Home, they would take interstate 30 through Texarkana. About 15 miles NE of Texarkana, they would cross the Red River bridge at Fulton. The Red River is expected to crest at Fulton next Thursday. Whether the crest at Fulton will go over Interstate-30 remains to be seen. If the Red River bridge at Fulton is closed, they could always go to highway 82 that goes due east of Texarkana and crosses the Red River at Garland, Arkansas, which is about 20 miles east of Texarkana and downstream from Fulton. Of all the bridges that cross the Red River in the vicinity of Texarkana, Fulton and Garland are the least likely to flood.

Of course, there is always the chance the Highway 259 bridge might reopen by next Friday as the major part of the flood waters may have moved downstream by then. Check the below web site between now and then as they do a good job of keeping up with road and bridge closings in the Texarkana vicinity.

http://txktoday.com/
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#1990 Postby TheProfessor » Fri May 29, 2015 5:28 pm

FWD Afternoon AFD


EARLY AFTERNOON WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED A COMPACT
SHORTWAVE TROUGH IN PLACE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS TROUGH WAS
SPREADING LIFT/ASCENT OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA AS OF
20Z/3PM. REGIONAL RADARS SHOWED SCATTERED STORMS OVER AREAS
JUST NORTHEAST OF THE DFW METROPLEX AT 3 PM, OUT AHEAD OF THIS
SHORTWAVE TROUGH. LOCALLY CALCULATED CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS
INDICATE THAT THE THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THESE STORMS
ARE DEVELOPING IS CHARACTERIZED BY CAPE VALUES OF AROUND 1,000
J/KG. DEEP LAYER SHEAR MAGNITUDES WERE CALCULATED AT 35 TO 40
KTS. THE COMBINATION OF CAPE AND SHEAR SUPPORTS A MULTI-CELLULAR
STORM MODE THAT MAY ALLOW FOR STORMS PRODUCING HAIL AROUND 1 INCH
IN DIAMETER...AND MICROBURST WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH. A LOCALIZED
HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. DO NOT EXPECT WIDE
SPREAD SEVERE STORMS OR WIDESPREAD FLOODING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER WE WILL KEEP A VERY CLOSE EYE ON
BOTH POSSIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY FLOODING...AS IT WILL NOT TAKE
MUCH RAIN TO RESULT IN FLOODING TODAY OR TONIGHT.

EXPECT THAT THE ONGOING EARLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL
TEND TO MOVE EAST OF THE CWA THROUGH THIS EVENING AS THE SHORTWAVE
TROUGH CONTINUES EAST...BRINGING SOME TEMPORARY SUBSIDENCE IN OVER
NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE MOVING EAST OF THE CWA THIS EVENING...WITH SUBSIDENCE
MOVING EAST OUT OF THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. ONCE THE
SUBSIDENCE IS NO LONGER IN PLACE OVER THE CWA...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE
TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH...BRINGING SOME WEAK LIFT BACK OVER
THE REGION EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.

ONCE SUBSIDENCE HAS EXITED THE REGION...THERE ARE TWO AREAS OF
CONCERN WE`LL BE WATCHING CLOSELY FOR NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE FIRST IS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT IS
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS...IMMEDIATELY
DOWNSTREAM OF THIS SECOND SHORTWAVE TROUGH...WHICH WAS LOCATED
OVER SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO AT 20Z/3PM. THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS
APPEARS VERY LIKELY TO DEVELOP DUE TO THE FACT THAT RELATIVELY
STRONG LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLORADO SHORTWAVE TROUGH SEEMS
WELL HANDLED BY MODEL GUIDANCE WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE THE POSITION
AND STRENGTH OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH WELL RESOLVED AT THIS TIME.
THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO CONGEAL INTO A LINE AND MOVE
SOUTHEAST ALONG A LOW-LEVEL INSTABILITY AXIS WHICH WOULD SEND THE
LINEAR MCS OVER OUR SOUTHWESTERN CWA WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

THE SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ARE
EXPECTED TO OCCUR ALONG AN EAST-WEST ORIENTED LINE...LIKELY
ASSOCIATED WITH AN 850 MB FRONTAL ZONE THAT IS EXPECTED TO BE IN
PLACE ANYWHERE FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR
TONIGHT. THE POSITION OF THIS ELEVATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS
IMPORTANT, BECAUSE HIGH RESOLUTION MODEL GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT
NEW THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP ON THIS BOUNDARY BY 08Z/3AM
AND THEN TRAIN EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY THROUGH SUNRISE SATURDAY
MORNING. IF THE BOUNDARY IS LOCATED NEAR THE RED RIVER, THE
GREATEST THREAT FOR THIS ZONE OF TRAINING STORMS WOULD EXIST SOUTH
OF THE BOUNDARY...TO THE I-20 CORRIDOR...PLACING ANOTHER BAND OF
HEAVY RAINFALL OVER AREAS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED HIGH END FLASH
FLOODING IMPACTS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. IF THE ELEVATED FRONTAL
ZONE ENDS UP OVER THE I-20 CORRIDOR, THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR
TRAINING STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD BE CONCENTRATED ALONG AND
SOUTH OF I-20 TO THE WACO/PALESTINE AREAS. THESE AREAS HAVE
EXPERIENCED HIGH IMPACT FLOODING AS WELL OVER THE PAST WEEK,
HOWEVER SOME OF THESE LOCATIONS HAVEN`T HAD AS MUCH RAIN AND
FLOODING OVER THE PAST DAY OR TWO. IF WE GET ADDITIONAL HEAVY
RAINFALL ANYWHERE ACROSS NORTH OR CENTRAL TEXAS AT THIS
POINT...FLOODING WILL PROBABLY OCCUR. WE ARE SIMPLY TOO SATURATED
TO STORE ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ANYWHERE ACROSS THE REGION...SO
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.

A COUPLE OF THINGS TO WATCH FOR TONIGHT: MOST HIGH RESOLUTION
MODEL GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT THIS EAST-WEST BAND OF HEAVY
RAINFALL/THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH 3 AM.
THE DURATION OF THIS RAINFALL DOES APPEAR TO BE TIED TO THE TIMING
OF THE LINE OF STORMS BUILDING IN FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS.

IF THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS LINE OF STORMS MOVES ACROSS THE
SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA FASTER THAN EXPECTED, IT WILL
LIKELY CHANGE THE ORIENTATION OF LOW-LEVEL WIND VECTORS AWAY FROM
THE 850 MB FRONTAL ZONE... DISRUPTING THE PRIMARY MECHANISM THAT`S
EXPECTED TO CAUSE THE STORMS TO TRAIN ALONG THIS BOUNDARY
OVERNIGHT. IN SHORT...FASTER HIGH PLAINS MCS SEEMS TO EQUAL A
LOWER CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL HIGH-IMPACT FLOODING ALONG AND SOUTH OF
THE 850 FRONTAL ZONE TONIGHT.

ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS MCS IS SLOWER...OR
SIMPLY DOES NOT MATERIALIZE...CONVERGENCE AND LOW-LEVEL FLOW INTO
THE 850 MB FRONTAL ZONE WILL BE LEFT UNDISTURBED...ALLOWING STORMS
TO TRAIN ALONG THIS FRONTAL ZONE FROM 3 AM UNTIL 8 OR 9 AM. WITH
RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND 1 INCH PER HOUR EXPECTED...THIS IS
OBVIOUSLY NOT THE SOLUTION THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE REGION AS WE
WOULD LIKELY RECEIVE ANOTHER ROUND OF HIGH IMPACT FLOODING WITH
MANY AREAS RECEIVING 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH A FOCUSED ZONE OF
3-4 INCHES OR GREATER LIKELY NEAR THE 850 FRONT.

THE CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO WHERE
STORMS DEVELOP ALONG THE 850 FRONT BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 3 AM...AND
TRAIN FOR A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS MCS SWEEPS
IN AND DISRUPTS THE LOW-LEVEL FLOW TOWARDS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH 6 AM. THIS WOULD LIMIT THE POTENTIAL
TRAINING ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO A FEW HOURS...RESULTING IN
ABOUT HALF OF THE "WORST CASE SCENARIO" RAINFALL TOTALS MENTIONED
ABOVE.

WE WILL SIMPLY HAVE TO WATCH THE MESOSCALE ENVIRONMENT CLOSELY
THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS TO GET A BETTER IDEA OF
WHICH SCENARIO IS MOST LIKELY TO PAN OUT. IT WOULD BE NICE IF NO
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS THE
REGION...HOWEVER THAT SEEMS VERY UNLIKELY DUE TO THE APPROACH OF
THE SOUTHWEST COLORADO SHORTWAVE TROUGH.

THE COLORADO SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THE CWA
UNTIL LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON...SO IT WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD LIFT
OVER THE REGION THROUGH THAT TIME ON SATURDAY. DO NOT EXPECT
ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TO DEVELOP ON SATURDAY BECAUSE
A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA FROM
NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST SATURDAY LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON. WHILE ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
CERTAINLY POSSIBLE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...MOST OF THE LOW-LEVEL
MOISTURE FUELING OUR RECENT EPISODES OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING
ARE EXPECTED TO BE ADVECTED SOUTHEAST AWAY FROM THE REGION BEHIND
THIS FRONT. THEREFORE...ANY ADDITIONAL SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY ON SATURDAY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN UNORGANIZED AND
GENERALLY LIGHT IN NATURE AND SHOULD NOT POSE ANYMORE THREAT FOR
WIDESPREAD FLOODING.

SUNDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEK...THE GENERAL PATTERN SEEMS TO SHIFT TO A
SOMEWHAT STAGNANT ONE WHERE THE COLORADO UPPER TROUGH/LOW STALLS
OUT OVER LOUISIANA OR MISSISSIPPI ON SUNDAY...KEEPING THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS IN WEAK RIDGING AND SUBSIDENCE FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK. IF THIS LARGE SCALE PATTERN
HOLDS TRUE...THIS SHOULD ENTER THE REGION INTO AT LEAST A SHORT
TERM PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER. MOST MODELS AGREE ON GENERALLY DRY
WEATHER FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT
WEEK...SO HOPEFULLY WE`LL GET A CHANCE TO DRY OUT AS MODELS
CURRENTLY ADVERTISE.

CAVANAUGH



Does anyone know where the 850 front is?
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#1991 Postby weatherdude1108 » Fri May 29, 2015 6:02 pm

ravyrn wrote:
weatherdude1108 wrote:Update:

There were a lot of tree limbs down on our street and neighborhood from this morning's squall line at about 1:00am. I took pics, but not sure how to post here. One neighbor down on the other street had a large Bradford Pear tree limb fall on her SUV. Another Bradford Pear limb split in nearby church parking lot. We thankfully just had leaves and twigs down, with one medium size already dead tree branch fall down. I am ready for some calm.


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#1992 Postby Ntxw » Fri May 29, 2015 7:03 pm

Great discussion out of FW. Somebody is going to see a lot of rain from training tonight.
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#1993 Postby TheProfessor » Fri May 29, 2015 7:58 pm

The Squal line that is developing is moving fairly slow right now. Wherever that 850 line sets up, it looks like those areas could be under training for a long while.
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#1994 Postby gboudx » Fri May 29, 2015 10:34 pm

wxman57 wrote:
Those emails were from Monday.


They showed up in my Inbox at 11:09 this morning. Weird. Apologies for the irrelevant info.
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#1995 Postby TeamPlayersBlue » Sat May 30, 2015 10:28 am

Not good.....

DISCUSSION...
AT 3 AM...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM ABOUT OKLAHOMA CITY TO
ABILENE TO FORT STOCKTON. SHRA/TSRA CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE
FRONT AS IT SURGES SOUTH...AND PUSHES EAST A BIT MORE SLOWLY.
SATELLITE DERIVED PW VALUES SHOW 1.6-1.9 INCHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST
TEXAS. FCST SOUNDINGS SHOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS AROUND 82 DEGREES.
UPPER LEVEL WINDS ARE BROADLY DIVERGENT AND ARE PROGGED TO REMAIN
DIVERGENT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. SE TX WILL BRIEFLY LIE IN A
RIGHT REAR QUAD SATURDAY NIGHT. SHRA/TSRA WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP
ALONG THE COAST BETWEEN 15-17Z AS TEMPS WARM INTO THE LOWER 80S.
THE COLD FRONT OVER NORTH TEXAS WILL BE PUSHING SOUTH AND EAST AND
WILL REACH THE NORTHERN ZONES ABOUT 18Z. THE SEA BREEZE WILL BEGIN
TO WORK INLAND DURING THE AFTN AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH
SOUTH AND THE TWO FEATURES SHOULD MERGE OVER SE TX DURING THE
AFTN. THE NAM 12 IS VERY AGGRESSIVE WITH THE SEA BREEZE/FRONT
COLLIDING AROUND 21Z WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ALONG THE
U.S. HIGHWAY 59 CORRIDOR. THE NAM IS PRODUCING 3-4 INCHES OF RAIN
ACROSS HARRIS...BRAZORIA AND FT BEND COUNTIES. THE QPF OUTPUT FROM
THE GFS AND ECMWF ARE MORE BENIGN BUT THEY ARE BASICALLY ON THE
SAME PAGE WITH A WEAK SEA BREEZE MERGING WITH THE COLD FRONT. WILL
MAINTAIN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AS IS BUT FEEL THE THREAT FOR
EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL FOCUS OVER THE CENTRAL ZONES. THINK THE WATCH
WILL BE TRIMMED FROM THE NORTH TOWARD EVENING ONCE CONVECTIVE
TRENDS BECOME CLEAR.

THE FRONT WILL MEANDER OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE COMBINATION OF THE FRONT AND A
TROUGH AT 500 MB WILL LEAD TO ADDITIONAL SHOWERS OVERNIGHT INTO
SUNDAY. DRIER AIR WILL WORK INTO THE AREA SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE DURING THE AFTN.

THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL PUSH EAST ON MONDAY BUT IT LOOKS
CLOSE ENOUGH TO STILL TRIGGER A FEW AFTN SHRA/TSRA OVER THE
EASTERN ZONES ON MON. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL BUILD ACROSS SOUTH
TEXAS TUE-FRI. SUBSIDENCE FROM THE RIDGE SHOULD LIMIT RAIN CHANCES
AND ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM TO NEAR 90 DEGREES BY THE END OF NEXT
WEEK. 43
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#1996 Postby WeatherGuesser » Sat May 30, 2015 2:41 pm

In all, 37.3 trillion gallons of water have fallen over the state of Texas in the month of May, the National Weather Service said. That translates to 8 inches of water over the entire state, the service said.

There has been enough rain across #Texas during May to cover the entire state nearly 8 inches deep. That's over 35 trillion gallons! #txwx
— NWS Fort Worth (@NWSFortWorth) May 29, 2015


http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/30/us/severe-weather/
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#1997 Postby TXsnow » Sat May 30, 2015 4:28 pm

Here in southern Grayson county my rain total since May 7th is now up to 20.85". We've lived here for nearly 40 years and never have we had this much rain in a month. I wish I had started keeping track of it May 1st instead of the 7th.
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#1998 Postby TheAustinMan » Sat May 30, 2015 5:30 pm

Getting stormy here in Austin again. 22:22 UTC radar image.

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#1999 Postby Shoshana » Sat May 30, 2015 6:11 pm

TheAustinMan wrote:Getting stormy here in Austin again. 22:22 UTC radar image.


We've heard some thunder but nothing is going on up here. We did have the lights flicker when the substation on Howard caught fire, but quiet other than that.

And as I wrote that, it started raining.

ETA rained just a few minutes. Wondering if we will get more overnight
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#2000 Postby Rgv20 » Sat May 30, 2015 6:33 pm

What a surprise more Rain!!

FLASH FLOOD WARNING
TXC427-310230-
/O.NEW.KBRO.FF.W.0035.150530T2328Z-150531T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
628 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH AT AROUND 5 PM AND HAVE
ALREADY PRODUCED FROM TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS
WESTERN STARR COUNTY.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA...EL SAUZ...LA ROSITA...STARR COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE...VIBORAS...RIO GRANDE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT...RIO
GRANDE CITY LIBRARY...ROMA CITY HALL...RINGGOLD MIDDLE SCHOOL...
ROMA HIGH SCHOOL...ROMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT...ROMA PUBLIC
LIBRARY...ESCOBARES...GARCIASVILLE...FALCON DAM...SANTA
CRUZ...NORTH ESCOBARES AND LOS ALVAREZ.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

DO NOT ENTER OR CROSS FLOWING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. MOST
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 2667 9901 2679 9894 2678 9872 2626 9868
2630 9875 2633 9875 2633 9878 2637 9880
2635 9890 2639 9893 2637 9895 2640 9896
2639 9901 2641 9904 2640 9908 2643 9911
2648 9909 2652 9913 2653 9916 2657 9917

$$

SPEECE
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