May 2024
We had power restored this morning at 3:33. My mind had already prepared for an Ike type scenario. I hope, if you had any damage, it is minimal.
Extremely strong storms aside, this May reminds me of spring seasons as a kid where there was about 1 or 2 days a week where we got thunderstorms. At least in Crosby.
Free advertising on Storm2k will do thatIceresistance wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 7:19 am So, I've heard of this site again and have decided to return
It has updated a lot since I was gone
Hope everyone is OK and gets power restored soon.
Good deal Grimes. I remember those storms very well also. Unfortunately, we still had to go to school the next day. (However, HISD & surrounding school districts would learn a valuable lesson later that year in September of 1983 when a school bus full of kids got stuck in high flood waters.) Yeah, I know yesterdays complex didn't produce nearly as many tornadoes as the one back in May 20, 1983, but I still thought it was good comparison nevertheless.GBinGrimes wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 7:28 am 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.
Both systems occurred during a year following a strong El Nino
Both were originated from a storm complex in West Texas which propagated into SETX causing widespread severe weather impacts across the area
Both complexes were associated with a sub-tropical jet moving along the Gulf coast which would impact states further east with severe weather & flooding
Ironically, both occurred on a late Thursday (1983 occurred later at night into pre-dawn Friday morning)
Both lead to several deaths across the area
The NWS has confirmed a tornado in Cypress.
Interesting GFS run. Shows multiple chances for rain returning around the mid/late part of next week.
It was crazy here. For the 5 deaths... please say a prayer or whatever you can do for them. Each of them have loved ones who are suffering tremendously and their lives will be forever changed. Many of us here are fascinated by severe weather and the dynamics that produce it. Unfortunately, lives are sometimes lost during such events. It is beyond devastating.
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Cpv17 no thank you, keep that way far away from SE texas, except for youre area lol
I love to see it. You’ll never really hear me complaining about rain. Only time was Harvey. Hoping for a 2007 like summer.Stratton20 wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 1:47 pm Cpv17 no thank you, keep that way far away from SE texas, except for youre area lol
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Cpv17 well when you have widespread serious damage all across houston the last thing you need is more rain, hope youre area gets some, but as a whole se texas just needs to get a break from the active pattern so that the clean up process isn’t slown down
It needs to just rain south of I-10 now. I-10 and north needs a break for 2-3 weeks. I think the severe stuff is cool and all, but only when it doesn’t do serious damage or claim lives. There’s some people (like myself) that can’t help ourselves. We’re adrenaline junkies when it comes to crazy weather. Reed Timmer and other storm chasers and probably a couple of other people on this board are the same way. You’re scared of it, I understand, but some of us love it, just not the severe damage and loss of life. Whenever I get a bad storm at my place, I’ll literally go back n forth from the front porch and back porch to watch it and get really hyped up like I’m about to play in a football game. It’s crazy.Stratton20 wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 2:14 pm Cpv17 well when you have widespread serious damage all across houston the last thing you need is more rain, hope youre area gets some, but as a whole se texas just needs to get a break from the active pattern so that the clean up process isn’t slown down
I know how you feel. I was like that 100% until Ike. That was genuinely scary.Cpv17 wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 2:26 pmIt needs to just rain south of I-10 now. I-10 and north needs a break for 2-3 weeks. I think the severe stuff is cool and all, but only when it doesn’t do serious damage or claim lives. There’s some people (like myself) that can’t help ourselves. We’re adrenaline junkies when it comes to crazy weather. Reed Timmer and other storm chasers and probably a couple of other people on this board are the same way. You’re scared of it, I understand, but some of us love it, just not the severe damage and loss of life. Whenever I get a bad storm at my place, I’ll literally go back n forth from the front porch and back porch to watch it and get really hyped up like I’m about to play in a football game. It’s crazy.Stratton20 wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 2:14 pm Cpv17 well when you have widespread serious damage all across houston the last thing you need is more rain, hope youre area gets some, but as a whole se texas just needs to get a break from the active pattern so that the clean up process isn’t slown down
You mentioned before you haven’t had winds like 80mph+ at your place before. Perhaps if you experience true hurricane force winds and the adrenaline rush becomes something else (actual fear), your perspective may change some day.
Looks like it's ride or die in Houston with Hurricane season. I turned town the job offer in NC. The VP and I just couldn't come to terms, and he got upset that I was actually trying to negotiate after he made the initial offer. Said "it's late in the game to negotiate". That was a big turn off for me since he knew where I stood from day 1 talking to him 2 months ago. If you get emotional with me as a prospective hire, what's it like when I'm on the books?
It was a snowplow outflow boundary from a rapidly moving intense supercell. What was the height? - it had to be >50,000 ft. It was like night over College Station as the cell passed through, and intensified even more while blowing into Houston. The bow echo was massive imbedded with hook echo spinoff tornadoes. At least one on the west side/Jersey Village and on on the NE side of Houston. Crazy.