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They're closer to the warm front and surface low so it makes sense they have the highest threat but this setup to me looks even better than on Saturday when we had wind damage and up to 2" hail around Austin. Definitely a higher tornado risk. It's always a crap shoot though when dealing with severe.

Absolutely. FWIW the 12z NAM was further South, but has more of a squall line look to it with perhaps a meso low on the North end. Would be more of a damaging wind threat.

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Clouds are being very steadfast, but values look great-CAPE is 2500 j/kg, shear values are over 60kt, dewpoint is at 73 and Lifted Index is near -7. Strong storms are breaking out near the W TX dry line, in 4-5 hours or so that's probably our shot.

Cell in SW TX just went tornadic. That's the area that the HRRR says to watch for the Austin area later tonight.

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Dallas is getting absolutely rocked right now with a bowing out supercell which earlier had tornadoes all the way near Abilene. Winds earlier near Fort Worth were estimated 90 mph. Today looked like a favorable setup for those guys. 

 

Down here we might have some of the storms that are near the Rio Grande, but my experience so far has been that those storms normally stay south of Austin or weaken when they get here. The tail end of the line that's over north central TX now might clip us again, and those tail end storms can pack a punch-one of those nailed us on Saturday. 

 

Pretty cool what's happening in Kansas today too-numerous crisscrossing outflow boundaries on radar that are blowing up into big storms, and several tornado warnings as well. 

 

If today doesn't work out, Sun/Mon looks like another active severe weather period for Texas, similar setup as today. I'm starting to see why this area is called hail/flash flood/tornado alley with the number of threats we've had over the past 2-3 weeks, and the whole month of May left to go. After late May the main threat area lifts north of us towards NE/KS/upper Midwest, and we go into roasting season. 

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Enhanced risk nudged south, might include Austin now.

 

The Eyes of Texas

Are upon you

All the live long day

The Eyes of Texas are upon you

You cannot get away

 

Don't you hear the whistle blowing?

At night & early in the morn'

The Eyes of Texas are upon you

Until Gabriel blows his horn...

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This happen today in Long Island, New York

A quadruble rainbow

Sent from my iPhone 9f1046aed45b344b7e04cf4b6fdf8c01.jpg

 

I think it is a sign from The Goddess...

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Could be another very active severe weather day here. Austin's under an enhanced risk and very close to moderate risk. The risk seems to span the whole gamut from high winds to large hail and strong tornadoes. Parameters look very favorable-again we have strong shear, good CAPE and lifted indices as low as -10 and -11 in west central TX. It's also partly-mostly cloudy here and quite humid. 

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Took a while for the severe weather to get going down here but a nasty squall line is headed east through the Hill Country and should be here in a couple of hours. Doesn't look tornadic right now but there have been a couple of tornado warnings earlier with it. It should hold together due to very moist air and still unstable conditions for quite a ways further on its path. 60-70 mph wind gusts and up to golf-ball sized hail look like the main threats. 

 

The discrete supercells north of here towards Dallas have been quite damaging today-one currently has a large wedge tornado south of Fort Worth. 

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The squall line woke me up when it hit about 1:30am my time. Winds were pretty strong, I'd say 45-50 mph and constant lightning for a solid 20 minutes. It also knocked power out in parts of town-the network at my office is down this morning from the storms. Looks like some tree damage reports are coming in this morning.

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It held together right into Louisiana and blew train cars off the elevated tracks. The developing El Nino is really bringing

the STJ to life. Could make for an interesting next winter if we can score three winners in a row.

https://twitter.com/StuOstro/status/592702784342007809

http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2015/04/train_blown_off_track_elmwood.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4r0TxZGy8

We can still use all the rain we can get in parts of Texas. A good chunk of the state is in severe or worse drought, and lake levels are still well below average. As for the T-storms in LA, a tornado warning was issued for New Orleans this morning. Not sure if one actually touched down. There were also tornado warnings last night in sparsely populated areas south of San Antonio on a well defined hook at the end of the squall line.
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The last time that I went into PR I ended up getting a warning point. They gang up on you if you don't agree with whatever agenda is currently being pushed.

In any event, what's going on down in Baltimore is an utter shame. This is like the 70's all over again.

That's why I didnt want to comment because what I wanted to say would have started an argument. But its fu*ked up whats happening down there. The family asked for peace and of course ignorant people do the opposite and burn the city down

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