cheese007 Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Possible TDS in Houston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 I do not know if this was a TDS on the north side of Houston, but radar base velocities showed winds of 70-120mph in the rain clouds, close to the surface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Just had a brief ~20 second long wind gust, long past the storm. Just drops of water. Local KHOU has random pieces of debris, like a very large tree branch, downtown where there shouldn't be trees to lose large branches. Wife's tia has a tree down in her yard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stx_Thunder Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 Was watching the front edge of the convective line from the west about to get into Houston on ABC13 tower cam live stream a short while ago. https://youtu.be/z-VVLWWvAEU It was already very cloudy ahead of it, and then it literally got DARK in just a matter of minutes when it came in. Saw a few power flashes also. I’m almost sure it was straight line winds seeing how it looked on this tower cam that faces southwest - west. - Crazy how it went to that scene after how it looked at 8:40 am today on Houston uptown Earthcam. https://www.earthcam.com/usa/texas/houston/?cam=houston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Windows blown out downtown 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Tornado Warning TXC071-291-170045- /O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0035.240517T0021Z-240517T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Tornado Warning National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 721 PM CDT Thu May 16 2024 The National Weather Service in League City has issued a * Tornado Warning for... Northeastern Chambers County in southeastern Texas... Southeastern Liberty County in southeastern Texas... * Until 745 PM CDT. * At 721 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Anahuac, or 9 miles east of Beach City, moving northeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...Tornado. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. * This dangerous storm will be near... Anahuac around 725 PM CDT. Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Hankamer. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. && LAT...LON 2972 9473 2977 9476 2993 9455 2977 9442 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 245DEG 37KT 2976 9470 TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN $$ Cady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 38 minutes ago, cheese007 said: There were Twitter posts showing CC drop at various locations. Cypress was one of those locations. Up to 700k CenterPoint customers w/o power. From X, a lot of people near Cypress posting images of these towers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 4 hours ago, Torch Tiger said: I've been watching webcams, very familiar with SE texas. Big hit, many webcams down and that's rare. Looked wild. The ABC13 tower cam in Houston survived the convective wind onslaught from what I was seeing on the YouTube livestream just a short time ago now that the line has moved off. The live rail cams (with audio) like this one seem to have gone out as it’s still just replaying the stream when the thunder line was moving through the metro: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uqq-1HPjJ2o I thought it was my connection though. But power went out for those railroad cameras in the city from what I’m seeing in the live chat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 This is measured by downtown-- 62 knots ( Houston Dunn Helistop airport?) Quote KMCJ 162355Z AUTO 34023G62KT 310V010 BKN006 BKN014 OVC030 20/19 A2964 RMK A01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 My family from Pearland to the woodlands is without power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 29 minutes ago, canderson said: My family from Pearland to the woodlands is without power We're lucky, The CenterPoint grid is not robust in our neighborhood, but we have power. Light flickered while the storm was still well W of here, with near calm winds. I'm guessing the transmission towers out by Cypress going down. Then again when the line hit. But they came on before the rain was even over. Before the second round of severe t-storm winds (not as strong as the first, but impressive) that surprised me because it had almost stopped raining. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 10 hours ago, cheese007 said: Windows blown out downtown It’s MLB season. The Astros were just playing as scheduled tonight at Minute Maid ballpark, and it looks like they’re gonna win also which is a nice finish to today’s powerful convective action in Houston. Nothing severe there lol 8 hours ago, Chinook said: This is measured by downtown-- 62 knots ( Houston Dunn Helistop airport?) 62 kts seems on spot around Houston as most people can definitely lose power at those sudden gust speeds (at least around this part of the country). But the TDS signature on radar and the broken windows on those 2 downtown skyscrapers that @cheese007 posted about suggests there may have been a very brief spinup right around there as the thunder line was moving in (on the leading edge). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 This is me being pedantic of course, but it should go without saying the extremely saturated ground from excessive rainfall this Spring (this has been one of the rainiest starts to the year in Houston's history) definitely made the extent of the damage worse than it might have been with all of the large trees and power lines that were easily uprooted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargers09 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 54 minutes ago, Powerball said: This is me being pedantic of course, but it should go without saying the extremely saturated ground from excessive rainfall this Spring (this has been one of the rainiest starts to the year in Houston's history) definitely made the extent of the damage worse than it might have been with all of the large trees and power lines that were easily uprooted. 85-110 mph winds would uproot trees regardless of saturation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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yoda Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 https://www.yahoo.com/news/houston-recovery-mode-storm-kills-131840576.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 My palm survived. NWS reporting just one tornado, near Cypress, preliminary EF-1. Cypress is where the big transmission lines (the reason 600,000 in the county are still in the dark are), I would have though EF-2 damage to take down transmission towers. https://x.com/TexasMoran/status/1791588419132617007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Rain is ~10 miles away, near downtown by radar, but was outside, bright CG lightning, less than 3 miles away judging by the thunder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 Basically hurricane Ike like wind damage from a MCS. Very very impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted May 18 Author Share Posted May 18 On 5/17/2024 at 6:16 PM, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said: Rain is ~10 miles away, near downtown by radar, but was outside, bright CG lightning, less than 3 miles away judging by the thunder. Got my share of a very decent thunder show & rainfall down here through daytime morning hours Friday (yesterday). Had one severe warned mini cluster (provided some good convective blowoff shield lightning strikes during the couple of hours prior), near me around noonday from the southwest that had literally no CGs around when was it was about to come over, then BAM! (almost literally) Had a feeling that was gonna happen. Was pretty bright, inside. Even though didn’t really get dark outside right ahead of the cluster. Nowhere as crazy dark outside as what happened in Houston on thursday. Rain rates in the cluster here were definitely over 3”/hr. Definitely an inch total yesterday. Power went out for about 3 seconds. Saw it was a fairly powerful negative CG on lightning analysis (150 kiloamps). - - - That looks to be about it convective and/or MCS wise for the state till Thursday (upcoming week). And possibly again by Memorial Day (seeing a solid “higher” probability signal area again in NTX). Not seeing a strong signal for continued sig flooding potential in ETX & especially closer to Houston area. With all the dry, very warm/hot days ahead into the upcoming week on GFS/Euro, ETX should be able to dry out fairly well. Flood-producing MCS activity later next week doesn’t seem likely either unless there’s a growing signal on models in coming days for things to really pick up again Memorial Day weekend into final week of May. Which is fairly possible as the furnace ML High doesn’t look like it’s going to hold really strong over the state as I see latest GFS runs have backed off on 500mb heights some for coming week. Both GFS & Euro holding mainly steady around 590dm @ H5 in STX all week. Which isn’t too bad around here by this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 From about US 84 and S, it looks to get rather dry and quite warm. I think this is the beginning of summer in STX and the next real chance of significant rain is August, more likely September. Not sure the STR ever gets far enough N that we'll see inverted troughs breaking off from the jet and coming back W under the ridge. Land of pure speculation, next best chance for significant weather is probably in September when the STR breaks down enough for the return of rain producing fronts (not the weak wind shifts with small dewpoint drop that can make it here even mid-summer, but don't produce sensible weather because of high heights and subsidence. Good news, for customers whose 'weatherheads' (pipe that carries electric down to the house and external breaker box) aren't damaged, CenterPoint thinks most customers will have electricity by Wednesday. Which will be a good thing considering the heat. Low 90sF all week with dews above 70F. OTOH, in NTX, DFW is already in a 15% risk for severe storms on Thursday. They have probably 2 more weeks of spring before the high heights shut down spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 FWIW, despite all of the precipitation, DFW is still on track for a top 10 warmest Spring on record. To-date, the temperature departure is 68.6*F, which as a matter of fact, ties with 2022... With respect to total rainfall at DFW, Spring 2024 isn't even close to cracking the top 10 wettest list (*ONLY* 15.85" to-date)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Managed an intra-hour high of 90*F today at DFW, 8th day of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Maybe some of your friends got this large hail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Here's a supercell with 2.25"-3.25" hail and a possible tornado near Brownwood (mid-Texas) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Tom Green County, the county with a panhandle that has a first and last name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 This storm, with possibly two confirmed tornadoes, rode an outflow boundary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted May 22 Author Share Posted May 22 1 hour ago, Chinook said: Maybe some of your friends got this large hail I don’t see any actual large hail there (2+ diameter), except maybe that icon that’s blocked out on the left side of the warning outline box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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