Texas Spring 2017

[bubba hotep]

Southward expansion on the latest update, now covering all of DFW with Mod down to the far northern burbs.

[bubba hotep]

19 UTC HRRR seems to target DFW just after sunset.**

** Not a MET or EXPERT, just a guy with a radar link.

That would time up with an increase in the LLJ

[Brent]

Low level shear is pretty impressive. Big storms this afternoon, the further south they initiate the more problematic it will be for DFW. Don't want any hailers...for sure..

Yes DFW is a hail free zone just say no lol

[Texas Snowman]

@KOCOdamonlane - Oklahoma: A large TORNADO WATCH box will be issued soon...

[Texas Snowman]

And here it is...

TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 86
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
400 PM CDT SUN MAR 26 2017

TORNADO WATCH 86 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

TXC077-085-097-113-119-121-147-181-231-237-277-337-367-397-439-
497-270400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.TO.A.0086.170326T2100Z-170327T0400Z/

TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

CLAY COLLIN COOKE
DALLAS DELTA DENTON
FANNIN GRAYSON HUNT
JACK LAMAR MONTAGUE
PARKER ROCKWALL TARRANT
WISE

[Texas Snowman]

And across the Red River in Oklahoma...

TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 86
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
400 PM CDT SUN MAR 26 2017

TORNADO WATCH 86 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

OKC003-005-011-013-017-019-023-027-029-037-047-049-051-053-059-
063-067-069-071-073-081-083-085-087-091-093-095-099-103-107-109-
111-117-119-121-123-125-127-133-137-151-153-270400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.TO.A.0086.170326T2100Z-170327T0400Z/

OK
. OKLAHOMA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ALFALFA ATOKA BLAINE
BRYAN CANADIAN CARTER
CHOCTAW CLEVELAND COAL
CREEK GARFIELD GARVIN
GRADY GRANT HARPER
HUGHES JEFFERSON JOHNSTON
KAY KINGFISHER LINCOLN
LOGAN LOVE MAJOR
MARSHALL MCCLAIN MCINTOSH
MURRAY NOBLE OKFUSKEE
OKLAHOMA OKMULGEE PAWNEE
PAYNE PITTSBURG PONTOTOC
POTTAWATOMIE PUSHMATAHA SEMINOLE
STEPHENS WOODS WOODWARD
$$

[Texas Snowman]

Storms starting to fire near Eastland in Texas and south of Duncan in Oklahoma

[EF-5bigj]

That watch is pretty high end

[bubba hotep]

LCLs are still high across the area but the 20z FWD sounding showed the LFC about the same level.

[bubba hotep]

Just getting started now, cells out west are still beyond the CASA radar network.

[Texas Snowman]

Storm near Wynnewood, Okla. now severe warned with half dollar sized hail.

[bubba hotep]

That didn't take long with those first cells

[EF-5bigj]

Storm near Elmore city has echo tops of over 47k feet

[TheProfessor]

So I'm watching the weather down in Texas right? Well I get an alert that there is a tornado warning nearby(within 50 miles of me). But wait a minute. I didn't set up my house in Texas for this program. Sure enough there is a tornado warned storm in Ohio while our radar is down and I have no way of knowing if there is any northward movement to the storm(if there is it will head straight for me).

[bubba hotep]

So I'm watching the weather down in Texas right? Well I get an alert that there is a tornado warning nearby(within 50 miles of me). But wait a minute. I didn't set up my house in Texas for this program. Sure enough there is a tornado warned storm in Ohio while our radar is down and I have no way of knowing if there is any northward movement to the storm(if there is it will head straight for me).

That cell might actually produce. LCLs still appear to be on the high side across OK and TX.

[TheProfessor]

Sirens have been going off here, I'm in the basement right now.

[TheProfessor]

Heck of a day for the radar to go down.

[TheProfessor]

I'm not sure if there's ever been a time where there is a tornadic storm while the radar is down in DFW, but there's definitely a different feeling when it happens. It feels way more tense.

[ronyan]

Was there a tornado warning on that storm in Dallas?

[Ntxw]

Was there a tornado warning on that storm in Dallas?

TheProfessor is talking about a storm in Columbus Ohio, not in Texas. Most storms are just west/northwest and southwest of DFW.

The cell nearing Denton is probably dropping some big hail