Based on the BRO short range images it appears to have started to take a more westward component.Rip76 wrote:Northerly Jog?
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-vis.html
Hard to tell if it's a wobble or the beginnings of a longer term trend.
Based on the BRO short range images it appears to have started to take a more westward component.Rip76 wrote:Northerly Jog?
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-vis.html
My searching paid off, I found a weatherbug site I don't have to download. That 111mph gust came from the Isla Grand resort. I would bet that station is up on the roof where the winds will be stronger than on the ground.sau27 wrote:A weather bug location on south padre reported a max wind gust of 111 mph. Dont know if that is accurate, but if it is that's pretty impressive
kellybell4770 wrote:I'm in Angleton and it is POURING - wind is howling - and I have to get out in this in 45 minutes - sigh
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1166
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0113 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2010
AREAS AFFECTED...MIDDLE TO UPPER TX COAST...SW LA
CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH UNLIKELY
VALID 301813Z - 301945Z
AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE MIDDLE
TO UPPER TX COAST INTO SW LA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE THREAT SHOULD
REMAIN TOO MARGINAL TO WARRANT WW ISSUANCE.
THE OUTER RAINBANDS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE ALEX ARE CURRENTLY
LOCATED IN THE NW GULF OF MEXICO AND WILL MOVE ONSHORE INTO SE TX
AND SW LA THIS AFTERNOON. OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THAT LOW-LEVEL
SHEAR GRADUALLY STRENGTHENS WITH SWWD EXTENT FROM SW LA SWWD ALONG
THE TX COAST. THE WSR-88D VWPS ALONG THE UPPER TX COAST SHOW 0-1 KM
SHEAR AROUND 20 KT WHICH IS MARGINALLY SUFFICIENT FOR ROTATING
STORMS. LOW-LEVEL SHEAR MAY INCREASE SOME AS THE HURRICANE MOVES TO
THE WEST BRINGING THE STRONGER LOW-LEVEL WINDS FURTHER INLAND. IN
ADDITION...INSTABILITY MAY ALSO INCREASE ALONG THE COASTS AS SFC
TEMPS CONTINUE TO WARM. THESE TWO FACTORS MAY RESULT IN AN ISOLATED
TORNADO THREAT WITH THE MORE INTENSE CELLS EMBEDDED IN THE OUTER
RAINBANDS OF ALEX.
Let's try and keep local warning in the June/July discussions..sau27 wrote:Tornado warning Brazoria County
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
158 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BRAZORIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN MATAGORDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE JACKSON... MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE TORNADO WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WILD PEACH VILLAGE...VAN VLECK...SWEENY...JONES CREEK AND BRAZORIA.
Big picture: Alex making landfall south of border. Inner core will remain south of border. Have dropped threat level a notch for winds, BUT inland flooding remains the big and continuing threat through the night and Thursday morning.