SE TX/SW LA weather: Much cooler and WET after Tuesday

[Yankeegirl]

I wonder if all this rain and stuff is going to stay to the east of here? anyone?

[Ed Mahmoud]

I wonder if all this rain and stuff is going to stay to the east of here? anyone?

My yard, with only a few exceptions, has done a pretty decent job avoiding rain the last few weeks.

[southerngale]

We're getting hammered right now. Heavy rain and almost constant thunder... some of those boomers that'll make you jump out of your seat as well. KABOOOOOOM!

Special Weather Statement

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
113 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008

TXZ201-215-216-251915-
HARDIN TX-JEFFERSON TX-ORANGE TX-
113 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HARDIN...JEFFERSON AND ORANGE
COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM CDT...

AT 110 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7
MILES NORTH OF SOUR LAKE TO BEAUMONT AND BRIDGE CITY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 7 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE VIDOR...WEST
ORANGE...PINE FOREST...ORANGE...AND LUMBERTON.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS
TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND
BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED

[Yankeegirl]

I am so jealous of you Southerngale.... Rain hogger!!
Send it this way!!

[southerngale]

Sure yankee, I'll do my best. We've had over an inch so far in a pretty short time... it's really coming down hard.

I haven't seen this much rain in months.... Lake SG is back. It's training over the same area.

[southerngale]

It's STILL raining here, although lighter than it has been at the moment. Nonstop thunder.

Flash Flood Warning

FLASH FLOOD WARNING
TXC199-245-252145-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0005.080625T1945Z-080625T2145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
245 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SOUR LAKE...BEVIL OAKS...
NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NOME...CHINA...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR
ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
BEVIL OAKS...SOUR LAKE...CHINA...NOME...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3019 9445 3023 9415 2999 9422 2999 9445
3011 9445 3012 9453
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 180DEG 0KT 3011 9433

$$

SHAMBURGER

[jasons2k]

You see the split in the line at the Harris/Mont. county line??

Yeah - that hole of nothing is what's about to go right over my house


Shot at 2008-06-25

[jasons2k]

I might get lucky! Just in the last two frames the northern end of that cell is expanding and might just might go right over the house and give me some much-needed rain finally! We shall see...

[Yankeegirl]

ok, so we just got hammered here... I was at walmart and the power was out... came home and the power was out here too... it just came back on... thanks for giving us the rain SG!!

[jasons2k]

Well, it looks like a nice storm moved through but it was so fast radar only estimates about 1/10" - 1/25"

[southerngale]

ok, so we just got hammered here... I was at walmart and the power was out... came home and the power was out here too... it just came back on... thanks for giving us the rain SG!!

I told you I'd do my best. You're welcome.


It looks like you'll have plenty more chances, Jason. We have pretty good rain chances for at least the next several days. I can sit out the next few rounds. I'm a stone's throw from the Hardin/Jefferson County line. This is the most we've gotten at once in quite a while, though.

[jasons2k]

I actually got .28" - not too bad if I can get some more the next few days

[srainhoutx]

I actually got .28" - not too bad if I can get some more the next few days

HooRah for Jason and Yankeegirl. Got abit more today, but was in the Med Center when it happened. Two days in a row. YEAH.

[Ptarmigan]

Nice to hear you got rain Jason and Yankeegirl. I know how it feels to miss out on the rain.

[srainhoutx]

Things are coming together for a wet week in SE TX/SW LA. Disturbed area in GOM continues to move WNW and the approach of a frontal boundry that is forecast to stall just to our north should be the trigger to enhance rain chances. HGX has noted in early morning AFD that the best slug of deep tropical moisture will arrive on Saturday...we shall see...

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
425 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

.DISCUSSION...
NOT QUITE GIVING UP ON THE IDEA OF SCT PCPN JUST YET FOR TODAY.
WHILE IT FEELS LIKE A SLIGHTLY DRIER AIRMASS HAS MOVED INTO THE
REGION...WE ARE SEEING SOME SOME DEVELOPMENT FROM THE NE AND AT
THE COAST THIS MORNING. SATELLITE WV IMAGERY AND MODELS ARE IN-
DICATING THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE NE
LATER TODAY. THIS FEATURE COMBINED WITH AFTN HEATING/PWS AROUND
1.7" SHOULD HELP PRODUCE SCT SH/TSRAS TODAY. THIS PATTERN PROG-
GED TO REPEAT IT SELF ON FRI. THE FCST FOR THE WEEKEND HAS ALSO
CHANGED A BIT WITH THESE LAST COUPLE OF RUNS WITH THE TREND GO-
ING ON THE WET SIDE. A DEEPER SLUG OF GULF MOISTURE SET TO MOVE
INTO SE TX ON SAT. AND THEN ON SUNDAY A WEAK COOL FRONT IS FCST
TO SAG INTO THE NRN REACHES OF THE CWFA AND LINGER IN THIS GEN-
ERAL VICINITY THROUGH MON. THE EXTENDED PART OF THE FCST SHOULD
SEE THE MORE TYPICAL SE TX SUMMERTIME DIURNAL PCPN PATTERN WITH
THE SEABREEZE AND AFTN HEATING AS THE PRIMARY MOVERS/SHAKERS. 41

TX WV Loop

http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/sa ... e&itype=wv

GOM IR Loop

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tropical/satpix ... 4_loop.php

[southerngale]

I think the drier airmass changed its mind.
No rain here yet, but I'm hearing a lot of thunder and there's scattered storms all over the radar. NWS has also upped our rain chances to 60% for the next several days.


Edit: Just saw this was issued.

Special Weather Statement

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1135 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-270000-
VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-
CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-
CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-
NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LEESVILLE...ALEXANDRIA...MARKSVILLE...
DERIDDER...OAKDALE...VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...LAKE CHARLES...
JENNINGS...CROWLEY...LAFAYETTE...ST. MARTINVILLE...CAMERON...
ABBEVILLE...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...WOODVILLE...JASPER...
NEWTON...LUMBERTON...BEAUMONT/PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE
1135 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

...TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING...

AT 1130 AM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTED AND RECEIVED
MULTIPLE REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE BELL CITY AREA OF
CALCASIEU PARISH.

A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE TROPICAL AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE
AREA. MEANWHILE...THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE OVER THE AREA IS LIGHT
AND VARIABLE. THESE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY WHERE RAIN COOLED
BOUNDARIES...KNOWN AS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...AND THE SEABREEZE
COLLIDE.

THESE TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE USUALLY SHORT-LIVED AND DO NOT
REACH THE GROUND. IF THE FUNNEL CLOUD BECOMES MORE SEVERE AND
REACHES THE GROUND...MINOR DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...AND A TORNADO
WARNING WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED.

STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER
SITUATION

[jasons2k]

Yep, the radar is very busy today, and it looks like more rain at the house too

[Yankeegirl]

we have a little thunder right now off to the east of here... it stormed last thursday too, thats when the pine trees fell on my house!! I hope its not a repeat!!

[jasons2k]

One heckuva cell right now here in the Galleria area. Looks like the house is getting a nice storm too

I like this pattern a lot better, that's for sure!!

[Ed Mahmoud]

T-storm at the Galleria. Nothing to extreme, but lotsa lightning.

Edit to add before posting:

I see Jason beat me too it.