May: Slight Risk Severe Storms Thursday To End The Month

[srainhoutx]

HGX: 1 inch hail possible with cell behind the wall cloud in Ft Bend/Harris County

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HGX reports golfball size hail in Riverside (Walker County)

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Dime sized hail reported Westheimer @ Dairy Ashford

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HGX issues Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Ft Bend & Harris Counties

[Andrew]

Update on the storms:

[Andrew]

Update 8:46

[txflagwaver]

Maybe more rain for me...

[srainhoutx]

Folks in Sugarland/Townwest area heads up. Some rotation being detected with the cell approaching from your W

[wxman57]

At near 2" in westbury, mostly with the storm an hour or so ago and the one right overhead now. Center is passing right over me.

[txflagwaver]

Really getting it here now...wind, thunder, lightning and really heavy rain...

[redneckweather]

You luck son of uh guns!!! Rain has skipped around me all week long. Once again, just a little sprinkle this evening and nothing near me now. I just want a 15 minute down pour to give my garden a good soaking.

[Rip76]

It may just be me, but is this cranking up?

[Ptarmigan]

Quite a stormy night. I am very impressed.

[Belmer]

It may just be me, but is this cranking up?

Severe weather wise? No! Heavy rain event? Yes!
The threat of severe weather/tornadoes is decreasing. Instability is decreasing and rotational shear is weakening. I understand NWS issues on the Tornado Watch. But till 2:00am was a bit too long I thought when they first posted it.
However, new cells, with heavy rain are developing over the same areas along south of I-10 and across Harris County that has seen rain for over several hours now already picking up 2+ inches of rain. As long as individual cells keep popping up, heavy rain will be the main threat with some isolated flooding in low lying areas, but within these cells, there is enough break before the next storm for the water to drain.
But the bottom line looks to be lightning and thunder and rain for folks south of I-10. Although, with the line of storms that is on the north side, I wouldn't be surprised if those kick off a few storms ahead of it and get some areas in our northern areas some rain.

[srainhoutx]

Flood Warnings are hoisted for areas S of I-10 with reports of water rising into homes in Ft Bend, Southern Harris & Galveston Counties. Rainfall totals above 4+ inches have continued overnight as a stalled outflow boundary lingers across the area. Storms are still firing back to our W and that looks to continue into the morning hours. Stay safe everyone!

[srainhoutx]

Stronger storms are finally pushing S and should be offshore in the next hour or two. I see portions of the Clear Creek water shed are near 5+ inches overnight so flooding should slowly recede the next several hours. What a night for folks on the S side of the area. We may do it all again Monday into Wednesday as another system drops SE from the Pacific NW. Also with activity increasing in the EPAC, a wet pattern may be developing for the Lone Star State in the longer range...

[txflagwaver]

Wow..got 5+ inches here. Don't know the exact amount...was about 1/8 of an inch away from 5 the last time I checked it. Went I went to look this morning it was laying on the ground. Water came into the garage under the bay door and under the back door. Leaves stuck against the back door about 3 inches up....

[srainhoutx]

E-mail from Jeff:

Very impressive local scale flash flood event over Fort Bend and southern Harris County overnight.



Radar and now ground truth reports show amounts of 8-11 inches over central Fort Bend County from north of Beasley to Sugar Land. Amounts of 4-7 inches fell over southern Harris County from Friendswood to Missouri City. The result has been extensive and widespread flooding over much of Fort Bend and southern/southwest Harris Counties.



Rainfall/Flooding Reports:



Richmond, Fort Bend: 10.70 inches of rainfall recorded by public CoCoRahs site (nearly the entire 11 inch gage was full)



Sugar Land, Fort Bend: 8.25 inches recorded by Hull Field ASOS station between 1-7am. Runways flooded, numerous subdivisions with extensive knee to waist deep flooding.



Sugar Land, Fort Bend: 7.42 and 7.58 inches of rainfall reported via public CoCoRahs stations in Greatwood subdivision



Richmond, Fort Bend: 4.06 inches recorded by public CoCoRahs station in Bonbrook subdivision.



Westbury, Harris: 6.49 inches recorded by public CoCORahs station



Pecan Grove, Fort Bend: 9.74 inches of rainfall recorded from home weather station. Nearly every street flooded, some cars underwater. Subdivision was cut off due to overflowing creeks



Richmond, Fort Bend: numerous roads impassable throughout the city with various high water rescues.



Sugar Land, Fort Bend: Intersection of US 99 and HWY 90 under 6-15 feet of water and closed in all directions. US 99 impassable at several locations north of HWY 90.



Richmond, Fort Bend: 8.93 inches measured by public in the Windloch subdivision



League City, Galveston: 5.57 inches recorded by public CoCoRahs station



Friendswood, Galveston: 6.13 inches recorded by public CoCoRahs station.



Radar Rainfall Estimate

[mckinne63]

Wow! That was some storm. Not sure how much we got here in Stafford, but the water is lapping out of our pool. It thundered and rained most of the night and into the early morning hours.

[Katdaddy]

4.90" in W League City. Clear Creek is overbanks at Bay Area Blvd.