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A few severe thunderstorms over NE TX tonight. I hope we cash in on a nice shower for my lawn! 

The grass is starting to green up around here. We got a bit of light rain today, and have a decent chance of rain again tomorrow, but I'm glad that we're going to get a break after that. 

Well the storms in Longview today were a dud. Barely even any thunder, let alone severe weather. Another day of rain though. We probably ended up with close to four inches this week. I'm ready for a few dry days, but it looks like rain and storms will return Tuesday/Wednesday. 

Here in north Longview we had light rain that transitioned to light sleet and even some "heavy" flurries for about 10 minutes. We have another round of light precip approaching right now, so we'll see what it brings. It's been a nice little surprise so far.

A nice, prolonged period of rain yesterday produced around 2" in Longview. Our power got knocked out at my office, and then my neighbor decided to drive through my lawn and get stuck. SMDH. 

A bit of sun so far this afternoon will likely be off and on until evening. It has allowed the roads here to become a lot better, although still with a lot of slush and some patches of ice. Once the sun goes down, these streets will likely become an ice rink again.

We ended up with a couple of inches of snow... maybe 2.5" or so. The roads here in Longview are terrible, as traffic has compacted the sleet/snow/slush into a layer of ice on all streets. I don't advise traveling anywhere today if you don't have to.

Streets will refreeze tonight (if we see any melting from the sun later today) and a similar issue with more black ice should reappear tonight and tomorrow morning.

I went outside about 20 minutes ago and it was snowing pretty good. Our vehicles and front yard were covered with about a half inch of snow, but the streets and sidewalks were still mostly just wet. With the freezing temperatures it shouldn't be long for them to ice up and start accumulating snow. Radar still looks decent. 

Moderate sleet with a few snow flakes mixing in here in Longview. The streets look wet and it's going to be very icy in the morning. The radar has really started filling in over the last hour. 

I just stepped outside here in Longview, and we're getting sprinkles with mixed in sleet pellets. A decent little shower is about 10 minutes away heading towards me so I might check back to see how interesting it gets. There might be a few frozen car windows to the surprise of some people in the morning. 

*Edit- Well I stepped outside again but it was still mostly just light rain. There was a bit more ice pellets on my vehicle but that's about it. 

Purely guesses... 

1305 tornadoes; May 1st, eastern Oklahoma. 

We received 3-4" of rain the other day here in East Texas. There ended up being a few supercells with tornado warnings and funnel cloud sightings south of I-20. 

We're in line for another similar storm system on Friday with heavy rain and a marginal severe risk in about the same areas. Flash Flood Watches are up with widespread 2"-4" totals with isolated 5"-6" totals possible. 

Still glad we're getting rain but too bad it couldn't be spaced farther apart. Besides that, sure am glad to have interesting weather return. 

There's a marginal risk for severe weather this afternoon across parts of East Texas. SPC mentions a possible upgrade to a slight risk along a line from Corsicana to Longview later. There will be a chance for a couple of brief tornadoes but gusty winds will be the main threat. We'll be socked in with clouds/rain for the most part, so it will depend on how much destabilization can take place with a warm front lifting northward into the area.

At least we've finally got some interesting weather back in the area to talk about.

*Edit - It does look like decent destabilization is taking place with some clearing and an associated cumulus field across SE TX. With the warm front lifting north, there is a decent chance that we may end up with higher instability than previously though. Something to keep an eye on.

On 12/12/2017 at 1:54 PM, Roy said:

Well, my family Christmas in Kansas is on the 23rd, but we go up the 22nd. Then, we have to go to Abilene on Christmas Eve for my wife's family. This upcoming storm could be....interesting. May have to cancel the KS trip if it happens. We got stuck on the highway maybe 5 years ago in a major blizzard up there. I thought we would beat it but not quite, and it was worse than expected. The snowplows could not keep up, and we had to stop every 20 minutes that last 50 miles just to clear ice off the wipers. What a mess. Beautiful snow (about a foot), but never again....

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm planning on leaving Longview, TX on the 22nd and driving north to Iowa. I am hoping for snow but not hoping for it on my travel days. I don't have a 4x4 vehicle to help me out anymore, either. Not that 4x4 helps you stop any better...

Here's to winter weather AND safe driving conditions... (Is there such a thing? )

Only ended up with 0.1"-0.2" IMBY from the showers last night/this morning. Dang. Sure has been a dry/boring fall.

Ended up with another nice, cold, soaking rain yesterday. Probably got around 0.70" or so IMBY.

I ended up with almost an inch of rain from last night's squall line. It was windy enough to wake me up, but there was only a little bit of lightning and thunder. 

We desperately needed that. 

I'm about to start resorting to nightly rain-dances so I can get some appreciable rain IMBY. We got about 0.20"-0.25" last week, and maybe 0.10" from Harvey. The last decent rain was within a week or so before Harvey came ashore. About a month and a half ago. 

5 hours ago, Roy said:

This thread is basically dead, but will say I am looking forward to some rain finally it appears next week. Just hope it gets this far east. Looks like a pretty heavy concentration from AUS to Amarillo.

Yeah, me too. We haven't head any meaningful rain in my part of East Texas for about a month.

Texas has been enjoying very timely rains this summer in most locations, it seems. Very nice to see. 

Parts of NE TX had 2-6" of rain this weekend. We had another round of thunderstorms move through today.

Looks like storms are interacting with plentiful boundaries/outflow boundaries. A storm developing over Tyler has shown some weak rotation with a decent wall cloud. Nothing severe out of it yet, but so nice to see since I haven't had a good storm in a long time! Looks like the Canton storm is heading towards Tyler.

I'm welcoming these below normal temperatures in East Texas. Plus we had 1-2" of rain last night and this morning in a decent portion of the area with high temperatures in the low 80's. Not what you expect to experience in early August! The humidity was gone for a few days but is definitely back now, though. 

We need a subject title change in here! 

I'm enjoying the summer that finally arrived to East Texas, Happy Independence Day! 

I would go for that track, or one 100 west... 

18 hours ago, bjc0303 said:

Gotta say that ensemble mean forecasts for next week look pretty impressive, with promising events possible Tues, Weds, and Friday it looks.

10 hours ago, 1900hurricane said:

I went ahead and pulled the trigger in setting aside most of next week for chasing. I've never dedicated this big of a time block to chasing in the past, so I'm really excited to finally be able to do something like this. The persistent western troughing progged across all guidance helped solidify it in my mind.

10 hours ago, jojo762 said:

I have Monday-Friday off next week as well, still have some finals on Tuesday and Thursday but those are all in the morning. Looking like an active period, with several impressive days (at least it appears there will be). Surprised by the lack of talk about it.

I also am free for the first half of next week, and if Tuesday/Wednesday are looking good I might make a two-day chase out of it, depending how things are looking closer to the event, which would be my first multi-day chase.