Ed Lizard Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Homes, horses, destroyed in fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 aw crap. kbtx now reporting on a rapidly spreading grassfire in west brazos county just down the road from bryan. http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Grassfire_Spreading_in_West_Brazos_County_119611274.html winds from the northwest are gusting to 26 while temps are near 80F with 21% RH... not so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Not pretty... Wind from the NNW (330 degrees) at 10 MPH (9 KT) gusting to 23 MPH (20 KT) Visibility 10 mile(s) Sky conditions clear Temperature 82.9 F (28.3 C) Dew Point 33.1 F (0.6 C) Relative Humidity 16% Pressure (altimeter) 29.96 in. Hg (1014 hPa) ob KDWH 112253Z 33009G20KT 10SM CLR 28/01 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP142 T02830006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Not to get too optimistic too early, but the Yurpian Community model suggests next Tuesday afternoon has some good drought easing and fun-derstorm potential. Hint of a negative tilt with the trough, and not super mondo hell cap of forged steel inhibiting convection. Edit to add- AccuWx PPV skew-T, LFC looks just below 700 mb level, but LCL looks around 900 mb. Winds below 800 mb fairly strong but nearly unidirectional from the South, but in the fat part of the 'CAPE' curve, winds shift from SSW at 50 knots at 700 mb to almost due West at 60 knots at 400 mb level, which seems a positive for at least mid level rotation. About 1.5 inches PW, and Euro shows about an inch of rain after the storms arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 GFS seems to suggest a few storms possible East of I-35, looks just Northeast of the DFW Metroplex Thursday. GFS soundings would seem to support severe where storms occur... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Msalgado Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Spring in NM alright... 35-50 mph winds tomorrow here with Gusts near 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0425 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0133 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011 AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS CENTRAL/N-CENTRAL/NE TX...ERN OK. CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH LIKELY VALID 141833Z - 142100Z EXPECT DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERAL POTENTIALLY LONG-LIVED SUPERCELLS ALONG/AHEAD OF DRYLINE BEGINNING IN 20-22Z TIME FRAME...COVERAGE INCREASING THROUGH REMAINDER AFTERNOON/EVENING AS ACTIVITY MOVES EWD TO NEWD. DAMAGING HAIL IS LIKELY...SOME EXCEEDING 3 INCHES DIAMETER. THREAT WILL INCREASE FOR TORNADOES AS TSTMS MATURE AND MOVE INTO PROGRESSIVELY MORE MOIST/HIGH-SRH AIR MASS...WITH TIME AND EWD EXTENT. 18Z SFC MESOANALYSIS SHOWS DRYLINE JUST E OF US-81 CORRIDOR IN OK THEN SWWD ACROSS JACK COUNTY TX...WHERE VIS IMAGERY INDICATES CONCENTRATION OF DEEP CU. DRYLINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MIX/ADVECT EWD ACROSS I-35 FROM PVJ AREA NWD...BEFORE DECELERATING AROUND 23Z. TX DRYLINE SEGMENT SHOULD MOVE EWD TO JUST W OF DFW METROPLEX...NEAR PRESENT LOCATION OF CONFLUENCE LINE THAT EXTENDS NNEWD FROM HILL COUNTRY. DRYLINE MAY SHARPEN FURTHER...GIVEN COMBINATION OF 1. CONTINUING MOST ADVECTION TO ITS E... 2. BACKING 850-MB WINDS EVIDENT PAST COUPLE HOURS IN CENTRAL OK VWP/PROFILER DATA...AND 3. GEOMETRY OF PRESSURE FALLS OVER KS/OK THAT MAY KEEP SLGT ELY COMPONENT TO SFC FLOW IN MOIST SECTOR IN CORRIDOR FROM OSAGE COUNTY SWD TO DUA AREA THROUGH 00Z. EXPECT CONTINUED STG SFC HEATING...DEW POINTS RANGING FROM UPPER 50S F IN NRN OK TO MID 60S FROM ADM-ATOKA AREA SWD ACROSS RED RIVER...AND STEEPENING LAPSE RATES ALOFT. THIS WILL BOOST MLCAPE TO 2000-3000 J/KG RANGE OVER PORTIONS N TX AND SERN OK BASED ON MODIFIED 18Z FWD/OUN RAOBS...AND 1500-2000 J/KG NEAR OK/KS BORDER. MEANWHILE...DEEP-LAYER SHEAR WILL STRENGTHEN...AS ALREADY EVIDENT WITH LOWERING OF 50-KT MIDLEVEL ISOTACH AT TCU PROFILER. EFFECTIVE SHEAR SHOULD INCREASE TO 50-60 KT. HODOGRAPH SIZE...NOW INDICATING SOME WEAKNESSES AROUND 1-3 KM AGL...WILL INCREASE MARKEDLY DURING LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER ERN OK...BECOMING POTENTIALLY FAVORABLE FOR SIGNIFICANT TORNADO PRODUCTION. STG ORTHOGONAL COMPONENT OF MEAN WIND AND DEEP-SHEAR VECTORS...RELATIVE TO DRYLINE...INDICATES STORMS CAN REMAIN DISCRETE FOR AT LEAST A FEW HOURS AFTER INITIATION. COVERAGE SWD INTO CENTRAL TX SHOULD BE MORE ISOLATED/CONDITIONAL. SRN END OF KS CONVECTIVE ARC REGIME -- SEE MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 424 FOR DETAILS -- MAY BACKBUILD INTO PORTIONS N-CENTRAL/NERN OK AFTER ABOUT 21Z AS WELL. ..EDWARDS.. 04/14/2011 ATTN...WFO...SHV...TSA...FWD...OUN...SJT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba hotep Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 It looks like it is going to be a close call for us up this way. The storms may end up really going off just a bit NE of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 looks like alarge wild fire in western TX you can see smoke on the vis sat, and LLB and DYX radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexo Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 we may never see this kind of thing around here ever again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 we may never see this kind of thing around here ever again Oh, I think in July or August when the ridge axis gets far enough North we'll get surges of enhanced precipitable water from the East every third day or fifth day, the Northern end of Easterly waves, which will tend to interact with sea and bay breeze convergence boundaries to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms. And Hurricane Dolly, huge miss to the South, rained on my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Fires have expanded further S of Aspermont and also into MX tonight. We need rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba hotep Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 It looks like it is going to be a close call for us up this way. The storms may end up really going off just a bit NE of here. Fail! We just got rocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Sprinkles before sunrise. Maybe a hundredth or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Just enough to wet the ground. Won't make any difference as Red Flag Warnings are flying as of 10:00AM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 80/27 here. that's an incredible 14% RH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 80/27 here. that's an incredible 14% RH. 30 homes destroyed, dozens more threatened near Stephens and Palo Pinto County/Possum Kingdom Lake area... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Visible imagery show fires all across the Lone Star State this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 i'm wondering if i should bump the wildfire thread so we can have one entirely focused on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 and we're still dropping 81/21... that's 11% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 and we're still dropping 81/21... that's 11% I take it winds are out of the NW? Does that downslope you at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I take it winds are out of the NW? Does that downslope you at all? Yes, sometimes warmer during the day after a front, combination of lower humidity and downsloping component of NW winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 good lord. 81/9 6% RH !!! it's worse than a desert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexo Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 These are the lowest humidity values I've seen around here since at least the late 1990s droughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 some of the obs to the west are crazy too. lots of single digit tds... wonder if that winston reading of 73/-8 a couple hours ago was accurate. that's a 3.7% RH if true. still incredible to me that we went from 73/69 to 81/9 here in ten hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Certainly as dry as I've seen it in sometime. DW Hooks last hour: Wind from the NW (310 degrees) at 14 MPH (12 KT) gusting to 28 MPH (24 KT) Visibility 10 mile(s) Sky conditions clear Temperature 80.1 F (26.7 C) Dew Point 17.1 F (-8.3 C) Relative Humidity 9% Pressure (altimeter) 29.86 in. Hg (1011 hPa) ob KDWH 152253Z 31012G24KT 10SM CLR 27/M08 A2986 RMK AO2 PK WND 32030/2226 SLP108 T02671083 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 another dry one today... already 75/17 at noon... 11% RH good thing the winds are lighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srain Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 SPC concerning tomorrow... FARTHER SOUTH...VERY HOT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ACROSS TX WILL REMOVE THE CAP ALONG THE DRYLINE FROM DFW...SWWD TOWARD AUS. IT/S NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR HOW MUCH ACTIVITY WILL EVOLVE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY BUT ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL DO SO WITHIN A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND MORE THAN ADEQUATE DEEP LAYER SHEAR FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT AND A THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF IT BECOMES MORE CLEAR THAT STORMS WILL DEVELOP INTO CNTRL TX THEN A SLIGHT RISK WILL BE EXTENDED SWWD TO INCLUDE THIS SCENARIO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 back to feeling gross outside. 86/68 now; might hit 90F today. looks like we'll be about 10 deg. above average for at least the next week or so. glad i'm getting out of here for easter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 92/68... HI of 96F. if we hit 93F intrahour, we're tied for the warmest day of 2011. a few places in west texas over the century mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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