More Flood and Severe Thunderstorm watches for my neck of the woods this morning.
Posted on 07/05/2007 8:13:07 AM PDT by janetjanet998
It has been Extremely wet over TX the past few months..some places have had their double rainfall amounts for the year
most of you have heard the news of flooding problems the past couple of weeks
New model data now coming in drops a huge amount of rain over eastern TX in the next 60 hours..
Given the very very wet soil conditions and with rivers running well above flood stage(almost record levels in some locations)..major problems are possible
Dammed up lakes also are very very high
UPDATES HERE From Meteorologists
buts heres a taste
CORPUS CHRISTI TX has now had 13.85 inches of rain so far this month..the old July record was around 11 inches..its only the 5th and much more rain expected
please post your local updates here
Hay, that makes as much sense as most of the stuff in his pappy's Academy Award winning pic.
heavy rain moving back into Dallas from the SE..flash flood warnings up just SE
The DFW area has already exceeded the yearly average for rain.
Not good. The Arkansas River is at flood stage clear to Tulsa. The Upper Mississippi and rivers moving into it from Illinois and Ohio don’t seem to be in trouble.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1009 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007
UPDATE BANDS OF PRECIP FROM COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER SOUTH AND EAST TEXAS CONTINUE TO ROTATE INTO THE REGION. HAVE UPPED POPS WHERE RAIN IS EITHER OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. EXPECT THIS AREA OF RAIN TO MAINTAIN ITSELF FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA WILL RECEIVE THE MOST RAIN AND HAVE THE HIGHEST CHANCE FOR FLOODING TODAY. HOWEVER...FFA CONTINUES FOR ALL OF THE CWA AS THE GROUND REMAINS SATURATED. EXPECT MORE SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER WESTERN PORTIONS TO DEVELOP LATER TODAY...AND ANY AREA WHICH RECEIVES AN INCH (OR LESS IN SOME CASES) OF RAIN HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. HAVING SAID THIS...EXPECT CLOUD COVER TO SOMEWHAT LIMIT CONVECTION OVER THE WEST SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY. PW VALUES REMAIN EXTREMELY HIGH (OVER 2 INCHES) AND PRECIP WILL GENERALLY BE COMING DOWN VERY HARD. /13
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 955 AM CDT THU JUL 05 LOCATION..ST..
0953 AM FLASH FLOOD ROCKDALE 07/05/2007 MILAM TX LAW ENFORCEMENT MAJOR STREET FLODDING. SEVERAL STRANDED MOTORISTS.
That band of very heavy slow moving rain in Ellis county looks like it will drift NW into the metroplex soon
More Flood and Severe Thunderstorm watches for my neck of the woods this morning.
Tropical storm-like’ pattern continues
By Robert Quigley | Thursday, July 5, 2007, 09:48 AM
If you watch the radar, you can see the moisture swirling around Central Texas. If it looks a bit like a tropical storm or a hurricane to you, that’s because it is a bit like one. And it is going to continue to bring heavy rain to some areas in Central Texas today and throughout the next couple of days.
National Weather Service meteorologist Cristy Mitchell said the closed low circulation is sitting right over the Hill Country, and it is taking on “tropical storm-like” characteristics.
“It’s not a depression or a tropical storm because it’s not over water,” Mitchell said. “But those low centers tend to act just like a tropical storm. Near the center of the low, there will be continuous rain through the night. During the day, you get spiral bands. It tends to mimic a hurricane, even though it is not. In those bands, you’ll get lots of rain — 1 inch at least and 5 inches at best. Between the bands, you get a quarter inch.”
Yesterday, several areas to the south and east of Central Texas got hammered by rain. Corpus Christi, for example, got 3.5 inches — and 13.8 inches since Sunday. Austin had a few showers on the Fourth of July, but ended up with only .12 inches of rain at the airport. That could change, Mitchell said, depending on our luck.
“Because this is a showery-type episode, one person can get nothing, and 2 miles down the street could get 5 inches.
Today, there is a lot of rain falling once again to the south and east of Austin. The weather service says there’s a chance some areas in Central Texas could see up to 6 inches of rain.
Several Central Texas counties are under a flash flood warning until 12:15 p.m. Most of the area remains under a flash flood watch until 6 p.m.
The good thing about all these storms? We only hit 81 degrees yesterday (the normal is 94), and it was dry during the big Austin fireworks show.
Mitchell said last night’s computer modeling did not show the low moving out — thus ending the rainy pattern — anytime in the next five days. She said the meteorologists at the National Weather Service “weren’t buying that,” and they expect the system to be squeezed out of the area by Monday, which would end the nonstop threats of heavy rain.
“But even then, there would be weakness in the atmosphere,” Mitchell said. “That would give us a chance for rain in the afternoons that would taper off in the evenings.”
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I live in the Housotn area. TO get to work I drive past 2 large bayous, both were noticably high this morning. And it rained all night.
O.G.N.T.S.A!!!
The Killeen-Fort Hood area in central Texas had over 50 inches of rain before July 1. 50 inches!
It normally rains around 36 inches a year here.
I live just NW of Tyler...and am thinking of wearing a life-jacket to work in Dallas. *chuckle* I have an 8 acre lake on my property that was dry to the bottom last year... which is now flooding the spillway. I’ve never seen anything like this.
I lived in Copperas Cove when I was stationed at Fort Hood from 1985-1988. I can’t imagine that much rain there already and I thought we had it bad up here. Our yearly average is about 34 inches and I think we’re up to 35.
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