May 2024

[jasons2k]

Windows blown out downtown.

[don]

Equivalent of a CAT 2-3 eyewall heading into Houston. Radar indicated winds 120 mph gusts.

It really was like being in a hurricane eyewall. I don’t usually get scared of the weather but I had to go into an interior room because it was getting legitimately scary.

[DoctorMu]

Equivalent of a CAT 2-3 eyewall heading into Houston. Radar indicated winds 120 mph gusts.

It really was like being in a hurricane eyewall. I don’t usually get scared of the weather but I had to go into an interior room because it was getting legitimately scary.

Unbelievable. As I wrote earlier, it was the DARKEST I've ever seen the sky during daytime. When I saw the bow echo forming it seemed like trouble...and there were tornadoes forming within the bow echo. It has to be incredibly rare to have straight line winds of 100-120+ mph in gusts AND tornadoes moving through the city simultaneously at 40-45 mph. CAT 1 conditions are still going on near Lake Charles.

1M without power. Glass and debris downtown. Snapped high tension power lines. It has to be a mess.

[djmike]

Shows that you can never trust models 100%. Houston wasnt expected to get the worse!

[djmike]

Over 7” in one hour here in Beaumont. We are flooded in (as usual). Winds reminded me of a hurricane! This system hit different. Wasnt just your normal straight line winds and it just kept coming ! Literally a hurricane .

[tireman4]

WPC

[don]

More pics from the neighborhood.Many roads are inaccessible due to trees.

[Cpv17]

More pics from the neighborhood.Many roads are inaccessible due to trees.

Man, that’s crazy! We’ve never had winds like that out here in all my life.

[Stratton20]

You know normally i would complain about the heat, but i would be very thankful if that heat ridge would expand northward even just for a week, we need a good quiet and dry stretch, prayers up for those effected by these storms, texas needs a break

[DoctorMu]

You know normally i would complain about the heat, but i would be very thankful if that heat ridge would expand northward even just for a week, we need a good quiet and dry stretch, prayers up for those effected by these storms, texas needs a break

If power can be restored quickly for most who lost power.

[Cpv17]

HISD has canceled school for tomorrow.

[dp6]

So what are we naming it? Mayrricane Annabelle?

[Cpv17]

Equivalent of a CAT 2-3 eyewall heading into Houston. Radar indicated winds 120 mph gusts.

It really was like being in a hurricane eyewall. I don’t usually get scared of the weather but I had to go into an interior room because it was getting legitimately scary.

The only time the weather was ever beginning to concern me was during Harvey. I’m like you, I love a good storm, and it would take one hell of a storm to make me scared. Storms make my adrenaline rush and I love it lol

[Pas_Bon]

Insane how strong these storms were.
This was our appetizer for hurricane season’s main course. Stay vigilant.

[Andrew]

I got hit pretty hard in my neighborhood just north of the heights. Lots of trees down across the area and power is out for the whole region. These were probably some of the strongest winds I have seen since Ike.

[Stratton20]

And those images right their are why im pretty concerned about this hurricane season, I cant even imagine the devastation that a hurricane especially a major would do to the houston area and communities around, hoping that texas stays hurricane free this season

[don]

Unfortunately there are reports of 4 deaths from the storm today. The damage across the city is insane. There are buildings that had complete wall failure.

[869MB]

Though not quite as widespread as that storm complex back in the day, today’s storms are very reminiscent of the May 20, 1983 storm system with respect to the severe impacts across the Metro area.

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[Iceresistance]

So, I've heard of this site again and have decided to return

It has updated a lot since I was gone

[GBinGrimes]

Thanks for posting the Chronicle article about the May 1983 storm. I lived in Oak Forest at that time, and was awake during it. The lighting was as if there were thousands of light switches being repeatedly turned off and on in milliseconds, for what seemed an eternity. The tornado "roaring train" sound passed overhead, or very near. Rainfall rate was ridiculously intense.

The scene from the morning will be forever remembered. Pine trees snapped in half, trees ripped up and into houses, debris everywhere. A neighbors huge oak fell across the fence into our garage. 15 feet in another direction would've crushed my parents in their bedroom.

I believe power was out from 10-14 days. Houston and vicinity had less than 3 months to barely recover and breathe when Alicia hit in August.