Texas Spring 2013

[Dave]

Event: Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Alert: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MILLS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 738 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GOLDTHWAITE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
MULLIN AROUND 805 PM...
GOLDTHWAITE AROUND 810 PM...

Instructions: FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING CORDED TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

[Dave]

NEW THUNDERSTORM WATCH BEING ISSUED:

Effective: 20:45 EST on 03-09-2013
Expires: 03:00 EST on 03-10-2013
Event: Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Alert: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 50 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
TX

. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
BANDERA BASTROP BELL
BEXAR BLANCO BURNET
CALDWELL COMAL EDWARDS
FALLS FAYETTE GILLESPIE
GUADALUPE HAYS HILL
KENDALL KERR KINNEY
LEE LLANO MCLENNAN
MEDINA MILAM REAL
TRAVIS UVALDE WILLIAMSON

[Dave]

Event: Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Alert: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 49 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 11 PM CST THIS
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 15 COUNTIES
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
BOSQUE COLLIN CORYELL
DALLAS DENTON FANNIN
GRAYSON HAMILTON HOOD
JOHNSON LAMPASAS MILLS
PARKER SOMERVELL TARRANT
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ARLINGTON...BONHAM...BRIAR...
BURLESON...CLEBURNE...CLIFTON...COPPERAS COVE...DALLAS...
DENISON...DENTON...FLOWER MOUND...FORT WORTH...GATESVILLE...
GLEN ROSE...GOLDTHWAITE...GRANBURY...HAMILTON...HICO...LAMPASAS...
LEWISVILLE...MERIDIAN...OAK TRAIL SHORES...PLANO...SHERMAN...

THE COLONY...VALLEY MILLS AND WEATHERFORD.

[Dave]

THUNDERSTORM WATCH #50:

[Ntxw]

Models did not perform that great on placement of precip and it wasn't as heavy east of I-35. It seems the heaviest bands were just west of I-35 and not so much east. Also not quite as much as HPC painted but the 0.50-1 did happen for a large area. Unfortunately DFW airport and San Antonio proper did not officially receive 0.50+, Austin I believed had 0.86 inches.



Edit: Anyone notice S2k site has been down overnight? Or maybe it's just me

[gpsnowman]

Models did not perform that great on placement of precip and it wasn't as heavy east of I-35. It seems the heaviest bands were just west of I-35 and not so much east. Also not quite as much as HPC painted but the 0.50-1 did happen for a large area. Unfortunately DFW airport and San Antonio proper did not officially receive 0.50+, Austin I believed had 0.86 inches.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2q9l8ox.gif

Edit: Anyone notice S2k site has been down overnight? Or maybe it's just me

Not just overnight. I am having trouble logging on(phone, laptop) from early evening till early afternoon. This has been going on for days now. I thought it was just me. Que Pasa? What's up? Is Storm2k going to die? Just kidding but it is weird. Any info would be great. Come on Winter 13/14!!!!!!!

[Shoshana]

I can get back here!

According to info on facebook, it's a dns problem. Storm2k changed servers and got new ip info which should have been sent out to all the dns servers. Somewhere along the way it didn't so our dns servers couldn't look up the address to find storm2k.

Anyway, lots of lightning and thunder last night and an astonishing 1.4 inches of rain in N Austin!

[South Texas Storms]

Models did not perform that great on placement of precip and it wasn't as heavy east of I-35. It seems the heaviest bands were just west of I-35 and not so much east. Also not quite as much as HPC painted but the 0.50-1 did happen for a large area. Unfortunately DFW airport and San Antonio proper did not officially receive 0.50+, Austin I believed had 0.86 inches.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2q9l8ox.gif

Edit: Anyone notice S2k site has been down overnight? Or maybe it's just me

I got an inch of much needed rainfall along with marble size hail last night in north SA! The SA Airport received just under .75 inch of rain last night. It was an awesome storm!

[Ntxw]

I must've seen incorrect data. I'm glad you got some rain and everyone else in central/south Texas! It's going to be dry and pleasant for the next week. Next chance of rain will likely come around the equinox.

[horselattitudesfarm]

I got enough rain to float the bugs in my rainguage, but my farm down in Gonzales County didn't get squat. What is it about I-10 that divides the rain?

[dhweather]

Whooo, S2K is working again!


.61 rain here. I'll take it, wish it had been more like those 2" totals in Denton/Collin counties.


Forecast looks bone dry for the next 10 days.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

How much snow did Bushland TX get this winter? I just saw a posting by a gardening buddy who moved from Wichita, KS to there. He posted he had 6 foot high drifts and had to brace his huge greenhouse due to the heavy snow on its roof.

[Ntxw]

How much snow did Bushland TX get this winter? I just saw a posting by a gardening buddy who moved from Wichita, KS to there. He posted he had 6 foot high drifts and had to brace his huge greenhouse due to the heavy snow on its roof.

The nearest recording station is Amarillo a couple miles east of Bushland. In total they received about 70-75cm (about 30 inches) this winter. The snowdrifts must've been from the last blizzard late in February. It isn't unusual for this area of Texas to see snow like they did. Record for a season there is about 50 inches, so this season will not likely make the top 10 for them in terms of snowfall (barring a late March storm, they even record measurable snow into May some years).

[vbhoutex]

Ntxw beat me to the punch and with better information.
As far as precip goes we didn't get anything like those mentioned above here in Houston that I have heard about. Not looking good for rain though at least the 21st according to Larry Cosgrove. I do not like the trend I am seeing. We are slowly but surely heading back into drought.

[weatherdude1108]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have not been able to get on the S2k site the past couple days. A bunch of "unable to locate server" messages(?). Anyway, back for now. Was with my parents in north SA on Saturday night. They received about 0.6, and also got pea to marble-size hail. My car was out in it, but no damage I saw.

I got between 1.03 and 1.10 inches in Cedar Park. No severe weather thankfully. Anyway.

Edit: Just saw the server was changed after I posted this. Also, VERY NICE Spring storm here. Just what the doctor ordered. Probably means it won't rain for a month or so. I wishcast it to be a WET Spring.

[amawea]

They are harping on TWC and at Accuweather that some kind of big storm is coming for the southern tier of staes and then the eastern seaboard next week. I hope Texas and Oklahoma get a lot of rain from it. (If it happens)

[wxman57]

They are harping on TWC and at Accuweather that some kind of big storm is coming for the southern tier of states and then the eastern seaboard next week. I hope Texas and Oklahoma get a lot of rain from it. (If it happens)

The Euro keeps all the rain well north of Texas with next week's storm system. 06Z GFS indicates no significant rain in Texas over the next 2 weeks. Looks dry in Texas for at least the next few weeks. Storm track is shifting north as we move closer to spring. And that perpetual trof across the eastern U.S. with a ridge over the Rockies isn't helping.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

They are harping on TWC and at Accuweather that some kind of big storm is coming for the southern tier of states and then the eastern seaboard next week. I hope Texas and Oklahoma get a lot of rain from it. (If it happens)

The Euro keeps all the rain well north of Texas with next week's storm system. 06Z GFS indicates no significant rain in Texas over the next 2 weeks. Looks dry in Texas for at least the next few weeks. Storm track is shifting north as we move closer to spring. And that perpetual trof across the eastern U.S. with a ridge over the Rockies isn't helping.

Not good news for you folks or us if I'm reading that right! I just want to bawl since my dusty old town took 80 years to get over the dirty thirties and now that it built a new very expensive rink DOWNTOWN (near the river.... idiots) and is building other new buildings DOWNtown and is renovating others we now have the risk of major flooding with the snow we ALREADY have.

Please oh please keep the storm track down there!!!

[dhweather]

FWD AFD

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 310 AM CDT TUE MAR 12 2013/
BROAD SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST INTO THE GULF OF
MEXICO TODAY WHILE A SURFACE LOW REMAINS SITUATED ACROSS WEST-
CENTRAL TEXAS. SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST WINDS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT NOW
MOVING INTO THE OK/TX PANHANDLES WILL ALLOW HIGHS TODAY TO WARM
INTO THE 60S NORTH AND 70S SOUTH. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS
THE RED RIVER DURING THE MID-LATE AFTERNOON HOURS WITH SUPPORT OF
A SHORTWAVE ALOFT MOVING TOWARD THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. NORTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH WILL BE ENOUGH TO KEEP LOWS WEDNESDAY MORNING
FROM FALLING TOO MUCH. IN WAKE OF THE FRONT...TEMPERATURES
WEDNESDAY WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER WITH HIGHS IN THE 60S.

AN UPPER RIDGE WILL REPLACE THE UPPER TROUGH ALOFT THE LATTER HALF
OF THE WEEK. A SOUTHERLY PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL SET UP BETWEEN
BROAD HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND A LEE TROUGH
ACROSS THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS. BREEZY SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH
AND SUBSIDENCE UNDER THE UPPER RIDGE WILL HELP HIGHS WARM WELL
INTO THE 70S AND LOWER 80S WITH LOWS LATE IN THE WEEK FALLING ONLY
INTO THE 50S. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE NOW IN BETTER AGREEMENT ON A
SHORTWAVE LIFTING OUT OF THE ROCKIES AND OVER THE PLAINS LATE IN
THE WEEKEND WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY.
BETTER MOISTURE WILL LIKELY BE EAST OF NORTH TEXAS AS THE COLD
FRONT MOVES THROUGH AND WILL HOLD TO A DRY AND COOLER FORECAST
FOR THE END OF THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY.


2013 is shaping up to be another year of epic drought. There is a real chance we don't see another significant rain event this month, and its March.

[Ntxw]

I wouldn't say epic, you need a strong La Nina for that like 2011. That certainly isn't coming. It's been a cool March thanks to NW flow, better had it been in Jan and Feb than now huh mother nature toys with us.