Texas Fall-2014

[weatherdude1108]

2.25 inches late last night/very early morning. Add the 1.3 inches we got the previous evening, 3.55 inches over the last two days. Likely not the totals that Portastorm or ndale may have gotten, but a nice soaker, though scary lightning and thunder at times! I'm curious to know their totals and anyone else's in the central and southern parts of Austin.

[TeamPlayersBlue]

Sounds like Austin had an eventful night. Yesterday we got 1.45 here. Nice since we missed out on the deluge from Tuesday.

[ndale]

Just checked our gauge. In the last 2 days we have 4.6 inches of rain, most of it last night.

[dhweather]

Well I'm happy for you guys, maybe because it came down so hard so quickly, some of it will make it to the lakes. The brutally dry ground here makes it where we have to get 3-4" just to get the soil saturated so that water will begin to runoff.

Hopefully you get another 3-4" in the next couple of days, which would put a dent in the desertification of Texas project.

[Portastorm]

Well, I'm going to chalk up last night (this morning) to a weather event which I cannot recall experiencing before. The cluster of storms which impacted Travis County basically evolved into a meso-low. That meso-low literally formed right above my neighborhood. I know because I was actively watching radar on my crackberry (power got knocked out at 2 am, thank goodness for AT&T). Wonder if that explains the torrential rainfall or the incredible amount of cloud-to-ground lightning we experienced in scenic southwest Travis County. I show 4.7" of rain since midnight on the rain gauge. Anyhow, the formation of the meso-low and being underneath it made me wonder if the severity of my locale's weather was connected to the actual synoptics going on. I'll leave that to the pro mets as I truly do not know. What I do know is I got about two hours of sleep, some flooding damage in the yard, and may have to throw some stuff out of the fridge due to the length of the power outage.

So at daybreak today in Austin, we had 50+ roads closed due to flooding, more than a half dozen lightning strikes on homes which caused fires, one possible fatality due to flooding, anywhere from 2 to 7 inches of rain depending on where you are located, and nearly 8,000 homes without power (mine being one of them). I call that one helluva storm.

The prospect of additional flooding rains for the Austin metro area has me concerned. Ground is now saturated. Won't take much to put us back into flash flood mode. Feast or famine, I'll tell ya ... Texas weather.

Hey dhweather, if I could, I'd send the next batch of rain up to Heath.

[TheProfessor]

WPC has still has precip for North Texas, and I'll take any rain we can get, but 1 inch is just not going
To cut it, and I'm afraid that if we don't get enough rain than it might cause are winter to be dry

[Ntxw]

Back to back falls of flooding in Scenic Southwest Austin. Forestation of Central and West Texas

[vbhoutex]

Well, I'm going to chalk up last night (this morning) to a weather event which I cannot recall experiencing before. The cluster of storms which impacted Travis County basically evolved into a meso-low. That meso-low literally formed right above my neighborhood. I know because I was actively watching radar on my crackberry (power got knocked out at 2 am, thank goodness for AT&T). Wonder if that explains the torrential rainfall or the incredible amount of cloud-to-ground lightning we experienced in scenic southwest Travis County. I show 4.7" of rain since midnight on the rain gauge. Anyhow, the formation of the meso-low and being underneath it made me wonder if the severity of my locale's weather was connected to the actual synoptics going on. I'll leave that to the pro mets as I truly do not know. What I do know is I got about two hours of sleep, some flooding damage in the yard, and may have to throw some stuff out of the fridge due to the length of the power outage.

So at daybreak today in Austin, we had 50+ roads closed due to flooding, more than a half dozen lightning strikes on homes which caused fires, one possible fatality due to flooding, anywhere from 2 to 7 inches of rain depending on where you are located, and nearly 8,000 homes without power (mine being one of them). I call that one helluva storm.

The prospect of additional flooding rains for the Austin metro area has me concerned. Ground is now saturated. Won't take much to put us back into flash flood mode. Feast or famine, I'll tell ya ... Texas weather.

Hey dhweather, if I could, I'd send the next batch of rain up to Heath.

Your aim is way off!! We keep getting it here in Houston. 2 FF warnings so far this am. Rains still coming down and more building to our West. This is not Heath!! Please adjust your aim!! 2.70" yesterday and already over an inch this am at my place. Some metro areas have had up to 7"(unofficial).

[Tireman4]

Hey dhweather, if I could, I'd send the next batch of rain up to Heath.[/quote]
Your aim is way off!! We keep getting it here in Houston. 2 FF warnings so far this am. Rains still coming down and more building to our West. This is not Heath!! Please adjust your aim!! 2.70" yesterday and already over an inch this am at my place. Some metro areas have had up to 7"(unofficial).[/quote]


Yeah, from Gulfgate. It has been raining all day long. It started at 8 this morning, and with a few let ups, it has been steady to torrential. Be safe out there.

[Portastorm]

Well, I'm going to chalk up last night (this morning) to a weather event which I cannot recall experiencing before. The cluster of storms which impacted Travis County basically evolved into a meso-low. That meso-low literally formed right above my neighborhood. I know because I was actively watching radar on my crackberry (power got knocked out at 2 am, thank goodness for AT&T). Wonder if that explains the torrential rainfall or the incredible amount of cloud-to-ground lightning we experienced in scenic southwest Travis County. I show 4.7" of rain since midnight on the rain gauge. Anyhow, the formation of the meso-low and being underneath it made me wonder if the severity of my locale's weather was connected to the actual synoptics going on. I'll leave that to the pro mets as I truly do not know. What I do know is I got about two hours of sleep, some flooding damage in the yard, and may have to throw some stuff out of the fridge due to the length of the power outage.

So at daybreak today in Austin, we had 50+ roads closed due to flooding, more than a half dozen lightning strikes on homes which caused fires, one possible fatality due to flooding, anywhere from 2 to 7 inches of rain depending on where you are located, and nearly 8,000 homes without power (mine being one of them). I call that one helluva storm.

The prospect of additional flooding rains for the Austin metro area has me concerned. Ground is now saturated. Won't take much to put us back into flash flood mode. Feast or famine, I'll tell ya ... Texas weather.

Hey dhweather, if I could, I'd send the next batch of rain up to Heath.

Your aim is way off!! We keep getting it here in Houston. 2 FF warnings so far this am. Rains still coming down and more building to our West. This is not Heath!! Please adjust your aim!! 2.70" yesterday and already over an inch this am at my place. Some metro areas have had up to 7"(unofficial).

I'm sorry ... didn't get enough sleep ... eyes blurry.

Y'all stay safe in H-town. Hope it doesn't get extreme over there.

[Tireman4]

I'm sorry ... didn't get enough sleep ... eyes blurry.

Y'all stay safe in H-town. Hope it doesn't get extreme over there.[/quote]

Yep. The rains are here and more is coming late tonight into tomorrow. Oh boy.

[TheProfessor]

I hope that cell west of us moves towards me, it looks like it is moving east but it is moving very slow so it is hard to tell.

[dhweather]

Nice storm moving NE to SW along I-30 and another I-20 , to my north and to my south.

[dhweather]

It is just sickening that we have to sit hit and watch tiny little individual cells and pray they come to us.

[TheProfessor]

there's one that seems to be moving Southwest towards me, but it looks like it might be splitting.

[TheProfessor]

Well it looks like part of the cell Northwest of Abilene is moving east, and if it makes it to us we should both get rain out of it.

[TheProfessor]

Well it looks like the cell to the Northeast of me just stalled, it was heading right for me and it is the only storm in the area, I hope it turns back to the Southwest.

[Portastorm]

Very disturbing QPF discussion update and Excessive Rainfall discussion update from the Weather Prediction Center.

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=qpfpfd

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=qpferd

[Texas Snowman]

Sounds like Austin had an eventful night. Yesterday we got 1.45 here. Nice since we missed out on the deluge from Tuesday.

Good to see others in Texas getting some good soaking rains!

We've had an incredible summer and early fall here in the Red River Valley of North Texas. Specifically, Grayson County has had good rains that have kept things lush and green in most of the county. I live in the northern part of GC (in Denison) and nearly all of the stock tanks and small lakes are full or nearly full. We've had to mow the grass once a week all summer (a couple of times, even twice in one week) and I haven't turned the sprinklers on even once. I know not everyone has been so fortunate, but here in my backyard, what a great change of pace from a year ago.

In the SE part of Grayson County, my father-in-law has had similar rains. He's going to get a third cutting of hay from all of the rain and last week's deluge of 2-3 inches at his farm pushed the stock tanks to "flooded" status. I've never seen them so high in the month of September.

Good luck on everybody getting in on the liquid gold that is falling down today in many areas across the state.

[Texas Snowman]

Very disturbing QPF discussion update and Excessive Rainfall discussion update from the Weather Prediction Center.

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=qpfpfd

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=qpferd

Hill Country and S-Texas peeps, this ought to get your attention!

"THE 12Z ARW, NMM, SPCWRF, NAM CONEST, NSSL WRF RUNS ALONG WITH THE 16Z HRRR RUN SHOW A STRONG SIGNAL FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL BETWEEN AUSTIN AND DEL RIO TX OVERNIGHT, WITH MOST OF THE MESOSCALE GUIDANCE INDICATING 9"+ AMOUNTS IN THIS REGION."