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Severe Weather Outbreak in Plains, Day 3 (OK, TX, AR)
Posted on 05/21/2013 9:56:04 AM PDT by dirtboy
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posted on
05/21/2013 9:56:04 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
Looks like another nasty day for the region. One good thing is that the temps are 10-30 degrees lower than yesterday.
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:05:26 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:06:52 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
My goodness.... those poor folks.
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:08:31 AM PDT
by
Gator113
( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
To: dirtboy
No place to hide, no place to run. I keep wondering what I would do with only 16 minutes of warning.
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:18:06 AM PDT
by
Gator113
( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
To: TomGuy
Could be looking at a different sort of beast today:
MORNING CONVECTION-ALLOWING WRF AND HRRR SIMULATIONS ARE INSISTENT THAT UPSCALE GROWTH WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. GIVEN THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY...BUOYANCY AND SHEAR...SETUP MAY YIELD A DERECHO ACCELERATING EWD TOWARDS THE ARKLATEX REGION BY EARLY EVENING. HERE TOO...THE STRONGEST LOW-LEVEL S/SWLYS WILL REMAIN...PROMOTING EMBEDDED MESOVORTICES CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A COUPLE OF SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES. OTHERWISE...POTENTIAL DOES EXIST FOR WIDESPREAD/DESTRUCTIVE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:23:07 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
Damn. Prayers for everyone there. I’ve been through two tornadoes (Windsor and Statesboro) and one hurricane (Hugo). Not fun.
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:29:20 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: dirtboy; Arrowhead1952; austinaero; bgill
Funny how the hatch leaves Austin just out of it... looking at radar right now I’d say they need to include the eastern hill country, too...
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posted on
05/21/2013 10:33:45 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: dirtboy
I understood "different sort of beast today": Arklatex storms. Can you explain the beast, please??
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:00:30 AM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. Samuel Adams)
To: exhaustedmomma
A possible derecho like the one that hit Virginia and the DC area last summer.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:03:23 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: exhaustedmomma
Arklatex is where Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana meet.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:05:39 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: txhurl
The Weather Channel has issued an alert for Central Texas, west of I35 and south to the border:
“EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS POISED TO ERUPT IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BY LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING.”
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:07:02 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: dirtboy
Thanks! This was the answer I was looking for; I was able to look it up from your info and now I understand the situation. My dad was stationed at Barksdale, and my husband is from the Arklatex area so I understood Arklatex. AND I understood something bad was brewing (the beast!), I just didn't get what the beast was.
Praying. And watching.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:14:41 AM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. Samuel Adams)
To: bgill
Heightened concern exists along and north of a Burnet to Austin to Giddings line this evening... where the most unstable conditions will reside. This area will be most at risk for very large hail and
isolated tornadoes.
Hmm.. I think that’s us.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:18:34 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: txhurl
63 mph wind guts in Decatur
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:21:27 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(America is bein killed w/o one bullet bein fired.........from either side)
To: txhurl
Yep. Get the vehicles in the garage and be safe.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:27:00 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: TomGuy
Significant tornadoes are looking less and less likely.
A Derecho, while bad, dropping a lot of trees and powerlines, and covering much more area than even a large tornado outbreak, is far less likely to kill people or completely destroy buildings.
This morning it looked like it could be as bad or worse than yesterday, and SPC had about the same risk level. Yet another argument against “school should be canceled if there’s storm risk!” nonsense.
To: dirtboy
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:45:34 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: bgill
Kinda in a spot. My daughter got us 7p concert tickets tonight at the new 360 Ampitheater which appears to be wholly outdoors.
Mothers’ Day present, and while I avoid large falling ice rocks generally... of course my gut tells us we’re going to get hammered but you know how Lucy is always yanking our forecasted weather away from us. Dave hasn’t cancelled the show yet.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:45:58 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: Strategerist
I think the worst of it will be later this afternoon around the DFW area.
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posted on
05/21/2013 11:46:41 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
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