Texas/New Mexico/Louisiana/Mexico Obs And Discussion Thread Part 7

[jm1220]

Line looks to be extending south a little and hopefully clips us on its way through. That's an impressive line coming through the Hill Country, warnings the whole way through. 

[bubba hotep]

It has been a while since we've seen a line of storms like this.

[radarman]

59 MPH gust downtown Ft Worth.  Eh not bad. 

[radarman]

30K w/o power in Tarrant county.  Winds of 75 estimated in Arlington, 68 in Midlothian.  Sirens have gone off in Arlington and Flower Mound for straight line winds. 

 

Good storm.

[Roy]

Pretty nasty storm in North Fort Worth. Some crazy winds, that's for sure. Felt like around 70 mph gusts. Very difficult to even close the door. Pretty impressive.

[bubba hotep]

Wow, very impressive light show as this line closes in

[jm1220]

Nice storm heading out of the Hill Country now, looks to at least clip Austin. Hopefully it holds together-looks like a nice hail core in there. 

[GlobeTrekker]

Pretty nasty storm in North Fort Worth. Some crazy winds, that's for sure. Felt like around 70 mph gusts. Very difficult to even close the door. Pretty impressive.

 

Same in downtown, very intense with transformer explosions in the sky. I was suprised they did not sound the sirens (that I heard anyway) given the intensity.. people should not have been outside in this one.

[NTXYankee]

Nice storm, one worth watching as it came in.

[cheese007]

Crazy wind and very impressive lightening with this one. Makes writing this proposal a little more tolerable

[jhamps10]

Witnessed the storm as it blew through Arlington, power was off at mattock and i20 and winds appeared to me to be at 70mph at the height of the storm... Got back home to sw ft worth and no major damage in my complex except for our storm drainage lake is overflowing but no danger to any 1ft floor apartments... All in all a good storm, best one I've had in the nearly 2 years of living in dfw

[jm1220]

Wow, Austin area about to get rocked. That cell barreling at us looks to have some big hail and 60+ mph wind. Might just miss me as I'm on the south side of town but if that hail core makes it here there'll be some damage. Already big lightning flashes in the western sky and first rolls of thunder. 

[bubba hotep]

Winds weren't too bad here but we are getting torrential rain! The Lake Lavon rally continues! 

[nearpass]

Wow, Austin area about to get rocked. That cell barreling at us looks to have some big hail and 60+ mph wind. Might just miss me as I'm on the south side of town but if that hail core makes it here there'll be some damage. Already big lightning flashes in the western sky and first rolls of thunder. 

Daughter living just west of Austin just reported driving home in very large, LOUD hail. with accumulation in the road in just seconds.

[jhamps10]

Winds weren't too bad here but we are getting torrential rain! The Lake Lavon rally continues! 

 

yeah but the good news is the past 2 days has gotten some good heavy rains for the entire metroplex... Great soakers to say the least

[jm1220]

Definitely heard hail here in south Austin, looked maybe marble size or so? Very strong wind ahead of the cell too, I'd guess 50 mph easy. Ridiculous rain and a big light show. 

 

The worst part of the cell may have edged just north of here toward Downtown, still that was a rush. 

[bubba hotep]

yeah but the good news is the past 2 days has gotten some good heavy rains for the entire metroplex... Great soakers to say the least

 

The last two nights have been great for area lakes and to think that it looked like we might get shut out this go around just 48 hours ago

[bubba hotep]

Definitely heard hail here in south Austin, looked maybe marble size or so? Very strong wind ahead of the cell too, I'd guess 50 mph easy. Ridiculous rain and a big light show. 

 

The worst part of the cell may have edged just north of here toward Downtown, still that was a rush. 

That is a nice size, big enough to be "note worthy" but not big enough to tear anything up. Glad y'all cashed in on the tail end of that line. 

[Roy]

No kidding. So glad. I don't need it every time, but at least not getting skipped every time!

[jm1220]

That is a nice size, big enough to be "not worthy" but not big enough to tear anything up. Glad y'all cashed in on the tail end of that line. 

Checked my car, luckily no dents.

 

Just north of me got the worst of the cell, Downtown may have had worse hail/wind. But here was bad too, the trees were definitely shaking and now my apartment's swimming pool has a massive branch in it.

 

Still great light show ongoing here and heavy showers on/off. Looks like activity for a ways west of here. 

[Quixotic1]

0.17" at DFW? No way.

[bubba hotep]

0.17" at DFW? No way.

 

That is like a DCA snow storm measurement! 

[jhamps10]

0.17" at DFW? No way.

 

NOT buying that.... no way no how... 

[aggiegeog]

Nearing an inch in the past few minutes. And still coming down very heavily. Now over an inch.

[jm1220]

Around Lake Travis looks to have gotten hit pretty hard by hail, up to 1.75" reported in Lakeway. 60mph wind gusts and downed trees reported closer to downtown Austin thus far. 

 

The hail core looked intense when it came through western Travis County, it weakened some before coming into downtown, but I would think there was some pretty bad hail there too, since I had a good 5-10 minute period of smaller hail on the periphery of the cell and they were in the middle of it. 

[Quixotic1]

That is like a DCA snow storm measurement!

  

NOT buying that.... no way no how...

Yeah. They're up to .42 now. I am dubious. The line was pretty uniform precip wise. DFW always has the warmest/driest readings.....

[1900hurricane]

Ha, that's like Easterwood's .36" two days ago: not representative at all of how much rain fell.

[1900hurricane]

^{Lots of large hail in the Houston area today. My parents saw some large stones and even the automated station at Hooks Airport reported hail. I was following this storm into Harris County before calling off my chase (no thanks to chasing in large metro areas), but just before I did, I got this image of a rainbow coming out from the hail core.}

 

[bdgwx]

There was a nice looking storm split with a strong left mover in central LA a little while ago.

 

 

 

[WhiteoutWX]

There was a nice looking storm split with a strong left mover in central LA a little while ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strong clockwise (anticyclonic) rotation evident in the left mover as well. Nice grab!