Texas Summer - 2013

[Tireman4]

Wow these popcorn showers really pour. I've gotten almost about as much rain from them today as the past 2 combined.

Welcome to our world down here in Houston. That is what we get when the Gulf of Mexico is cooking right...

[Ntxw]

Wow these popcorn showers really pour. I've gotten almost about as much rain from them today as the past 2 combined.

Welcome to our world down here in Houston. That is what we get when the Gulf of Mexico is cooking right...

A few more days of it! Hope you down there get lots more with 97L moisture. It certainly looks much more potent than most models had it (nothing really). The GFS builds a backdoor front with the eastern trough with the warm up. Heat ridges have been mainly transient so far this year for us. I think the higher moisture dewpoints will remain for daily showers for some time to come.

[KatDaddy]

Success! We finally got some more rainfall in NE Galveston County. Brings my daily total up to .37" and two day total to .67" with more development across Galveston Bay and offshore. I think we are going to be just fine but the wave of skeeters are on the way. The first few are already here.

Darn typos! To many skeeters while trying to type the post

[KatDaddy]

One more day with a decent chance of tropical downpours. More thunder the last hour from heavy thunderstorms streaming inland across Eastern Brazoria County. Another .45" since midnight brings my storm total up to 1.13". Much drier weather begins Thursday and into the weekend and will be watching a TUTT (tropical upper tropospheric trough) move W across the GOM Sunday through early next week which may again increase rain chances for SE TX. Currently its over the Bahamas.

[weatherdude1108]

After not getting much rain besides sprinkles yesterday, the Weatherdude Center received a nice shower last night around 7:30pm. It dumped over a tenth of an inch in less than five minutes. It also had thunder which I hadn't heard with this event until then.

Awoken to a heavy shower this morning with a few small cells coming up from the south/southeast. My total so far with the event is 2.3 inches.

This is BEAUTIFUL!!

[ndale]

With the additional rain yesterday our total is now 3.5 inches.

[weatherdude1108]

Getting dark and breezy here at work. This popped up on my phone. Just in time for me to drive home!

FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
347 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2013

TXC021-453-491-172230-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FA.Y.0073.130717T2047Z-130717T2230Z/
/00000.N.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
TRAVIS-WILLIAMSON-BASTROP-
347 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED AN

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR MINOR FLOODING OF POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS IN...
BASTROP COUNTY...
TRAVIS COUNTY...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 345 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING FROM THE
BASTROP AREA TOWARD THE I35 CORRIDOR FROM AUSTIN TO ROUND ROCK.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO ONE AND HALF
INCHES PER HOUR.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING TO
OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER
CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE MINOR FLOODING
INCLUDE...ANDERSON MILL...AUSTIN...AUSTIN BERGSTROM INT AP...
BASTROP...CEDAR PARK...ELGIN...GEORGETOWN...GRANGER...PFLUGERVILLE
AND ROUND ROCK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

[Ntxw]

A couple of pop up showers came by here on the east side of the Airport. That brings my 4 day total to just over 2 inches. I see weatherdude is happy down in Central Texas! Wish this could be shared with everybody who still is not having much luck.

[TeamPlayersBlue]

Im getting mixed signals for this weekend. Going to my buddys river house on the san bernard river. Is that Low near Florida going to cause trouble for us?

[Ntxw]

Im getting mixed signals for this weekend. Going to my buddys river house on the san bernard river. Is that Low near Florida going to cause trouble for us?

Models don't develop it into any kind of strong system but does send vorticity/disturbed weather into the upper Texas coast. It would be like what you are seeing now, sea breezes and enhance rain chances coming onshore each day from the east/southeast. If it gets a little more organized could be more rain for a larger area especially near and below I-10.

[weatherdude1108]

Driving home from work was a doozy! Blinding rain, waterfalls coming off houses, pipes on the highway flyovers gushing out water, side ditches turned into raging rivers, BLINDING rain the whole 30 minute trip home! Everyone was going 40-45mph on a normally 60-65mph road. I almost pulled over to the side of the road it was so hard to see. I got about an inch in one hour at the Weatherdude Center (ewx estimated 1 to 1.5 inches per hour).

My grand total since this began early Monday is 3.5 inches! I noticed lakes Travis and Buchanan have risen less than a foot so far through this. Anyway, my yard is saturated once again.

http://imageshack.us/a/img827/5073/qsfy.jpg

[South Texas Storms]

Unfortunately I was one of the big losers with this event as my total was less than .25 inch. I just couldn't catch a break every day as the heaviest rains moved around my house.

[ndale]

Rain may be over for a while but I can't complain, ended with a grand total of 4 inches. Glad to see weatherdude got a good total too.

[horselattitudesfarm]

Unfortunately I was one of the big losers with this event as my total was less than .25 inch. I just couldn't catch a break every day as the heaviest rains moved around my house.

Our grand total for the 3 locations we own property:

1) House in Collin County: .46 inches
2)Horselattitudes Farm in Ottine (near Luling): .3 inches
3)Rental house in Rockport Texas: .4 inches
As you can see, I now have to have 3 places to get over an inch of rain anymore
I must definitely be jinxed because you would think the odds would put one of those places in a sweet spot for rain with such a widespread system. Apparently STS and I have angered the same gods Here are pictures of the donut holes over our other 2 places. (I already posted Collin County on the previous page):

[horselattitudesfarm]

How do you upload avatar images? I don't seem to have the option like I did before? All I see is the libraries of images.

[gboudx]

How do you upload avatar images? I don't seem to have the option like I did before? All I see is the libraries of images.

Looks like you have to use the "Link off-site: " option. So you'll need to upload your avatar to some file-hosting website like Imageshack and then put the URL of the image.

[Portastorm]

It was nice to see the sign shine this morning ... but it was nicer to have glorious, wonderful rain falling the last few days!

Recorded 1.32 inches of rainfall at the Portastorm Weather Center from this event. Not nearly as good as my fellow Austin metro friends from the northern areas but I'm not complaining. Beats the last few years!

[weatherdude1108]

Congrats to ndale! You appear to be the winner in this rain event!

Horselattitudesfarm is living up to his name it appears. I can DEFINITELY relate. Sorry about that.

Portastorm, that is a respectable amount, especially for mid-July!

Looks like the Central Texas area lakes have responded some. Good start!


http://www.lcra.org/water/conditions/river_report.html
LCRA River Report

Operations Summary
Jul 18 2013 8:02AM
Streamflow Conditions above the Highland Lakes

Above Lake Buchanan this morning the Colorado River near San Saba is flowing at 3575 cfs. Above Lake LBJ the Llano River at Llano is flowing at 35 cfs while Sandy Creek near Kingsland is flowing at 14 cfs. Above Lake Travis, the Pedernales River near Johnson City is flowing at 5 cfs.

As of Wednesday evening, Lake Buchanan had risen about 8 inches and Lake Travis had risen about 10 inches. The Highland Lakes had received about 17,000 acre-feet of water from rainfall between Monday and Thursday morning. Additional rain fell in the upper reaches of the river Wednesday afternoon and evening providing additional inflows which we expect will reach Lake Buchanan later this week. Fortunately, some of the heaviest rains fell almost directly on lakes Inks and Buchanan and over Hamilton Creek, where it was quickly captured in the Highland Lakes before it could be soaked up by the surrounding dry countryside.


Wish the rain would stick around. Maybe the other tutt low heading towards Texas will strengthen and overpower the Bermuda high. That would be nice!

[KatDaddy]

Storm chances increase a little today and Saturday as a disturbance and upper level low drifts W into SE TX. Isolated strong microbursts will be possible on Saturday.

[Ntxw]

Overall it has been a wonderful week here in Texas I'd say for July. Mostly below normal temperatures and many had opportunities for rain. Watching the media and everyone up in the northeast/Lakes go bonkers over a week of highs above 90 driving everyone nuts up there seemed a little amusing, of course it's all relative though. Maybe now they will think twice before making fun of us when there's a little snow and cold down south!