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The first hail core has dropped with a second one developing aloft around 25,000 ft. 4.37'' hail possible!

Also some new echos just South and east of bryan, we'll need to watch those, along with more thundershoers within the band of light rain to our northeast.

Large hail core dropping once again just south of Huntsville with a 78.5db return on the lowest tilt of the radar which up there is at about 7,000ft. Good bet that golf ball sized hail or larger might be falling about 4.5 miles south of Huntsville and 2 miles west of I-45.

It looks like that storm is taking on some supercell characteristics with a v-notch and mid-level rotation. Tornado threat remains very low as it is likely somewhat elevated as the surface cools down this evening.

svrwx0503 wrote:The first hail core has dropped with a second one developing aloft around 25,000 ft. 4.37'' hail possible!

That is an impressive chunck of ice falling to and striking the ground, svrwx0503. Rectify me if I am wrong, but would that size be grapefruit or very close to it?

Come on thunderstorms, coerce that cap to crumble & shatter.

^svrwx, Storms to the west appear to be re-intensifying as well. Do you think some of these storms could at least make it into Northern Harris county before the night is over?

sleetstorm wrote:

svrwx0503 wrote:The first hail core has dropped with a second one developing aloft around 25,000 ft. 4.37'' hail possible!

That is an impressive chunck of ice falling to and striking the ground, svrwx0503. Rectify me if I am wrong, but would that size be grapefruit or very close to it?

Come on thunderstorms, coerce that cap to crumble & shatter.

That would be closer to softball size; however some of it is likely melting before hitting the ground. I would expect mainly golf ball sized hail with the southern Walker county storm at this time.

unome wrote:incredible lightning off to our WNW - hope we don't get hail, but would love the rain

I understand, unome. Yet, none of us have any control as to what those thunderstorms produce and where they dump their cargo.

weatherguy425 wrote:^svrwx, Storms to the west appear to be re-intensifying as well. Do you think some of these storms could at least make it into Northern Harris county before the night is over?

The storms out west look to be falling apart as they move away from the frontal boundary where the best low level convergence is occurring. As the boundary gets closer later tonight, there could still be some isolated showers and thunderstorms around that might make it into the Harris county area as some models have been hinting at. The overall severe threat will be on the decline as we head towards midnight and we loose any surface based instability.

svrwx0503 wrote:

sleetstorm wrote:

svrwx0503 wrote:The first hail core has dropped with a second one developing aloft around 25,000 ft. 4.37'' hail possible!

That is an impressive chunck of ice falling to and striking the ground, svrwx0503. Rectify me if I am wrong, but would that size be grapefruit or very close to it?

Come on thunderstorms, coerce that cap to crumble & shatter.

That would be closer to softball size; however some of it is likely melting before hitting the ground. I would expect mainly golf ball sized hail with the southern Walker county storm at this time.

Thank you for clearing that up for me, svrwx0503.

Just hopin' for some rain!

sleetstorm wrote:Thank you for clearing that up for me, svrwx0503.

No problem! So far though have only received a report of 1'' hail 2 miles south of Huntsville. It looks like most of the larger hail likely fell in a sparsely populated section of Walker county.

Wow, huge amount of lightning to my north, I'm in Kingwood. However, looking at the radar, might be a pretty strong cap directly over Houston as the storms are dissipating as they approach.

Does anyone have a radar of the hail cores in these thunderstorms? I was getting some lightning here in Baytown and saw some ENE of Harris County. I am concerned about my plants in my backyard wondering if I should place them under my the back porch due to those thunderstorms producing hail.

We even have a tornado warning now for Eastern Montgomery

I'm just outside of that tornado warning, a bit to the north of it and we're getting a nice steady rain, lightning but surprisingly not a lot of thunder or at least not the loud kind of thunder you would expect with a severe TS warning. Weird.

I notice some storms firing up in the northwestern tip of Harris County.

Tornado Warning
TORNADO WARNING
TXC291-260545-
/O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0016.110526T0458Z-110526T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1158 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1154 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
KENEFICK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IS ALSO
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IN THE TORNADO WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
KENEFICK...LIBERTY...HARDIN...DEVERS...DAYTON
LAKES...DAYTON...DAISETTA AND AMES.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE...
OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3007 9446 2991 9486 3017 9507 3024 9498
TIME...MOT...LOC 0458Z 303DEG 27KT 3018 9496


And 15 miles to the west, a few large raindrops!

Some pretty strong storms out there. I have some thunder around my area.

Some moderate rain here, started off with a little bit of pea size hail.

Here are the reports so far tonight:

All hail, except for an unconfirmed report of a tornado in Liberty County

1259 AM CDT THU MAY 26 2011

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0905 PM HAIL SNOOK 30.49N 96.47W
05/25/2011 E0.75 INCH BURLESON TX TRAINED SPOTTER

0911 PM HAIL SOMERVILLE 30.35N 96.53W
05/25/2011 E1.00 INCH BURLESON TX EMERGENCY MNGR

0930 PM HAIL SEBASTOPOL 30.91N 95.25W
05/25/2011 E0.75 INCH TRINITY TX PUBLIC

1025 PM HAIL 4 E BURTON 30.18N 96.53W
05/25/2011 E0.75 INCH WASHINGTON TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

COLD MILL RD

1028 PM HAIL 3 W HUNTSVILLE 30.71N 95.60W
05/25/2011 E0.75 INCH WALKER TX EMERGENCY MNGR

1030 PM HAIL 2 S HUNTSVILLE 30.68N 95.55W
05/25/2011 E1.00 INCH WALKER TX TRAINED SPOTTER

1040 PM HAIL 4 W HUNTSVILLE 30.71N 95.62W
05/25/2011 E1.75 INCH WALKER TX EMERGENCY MNGR

1041 PM HAIL 4 WSW BRENHAM 30.14N 96.46W
05/25/2011 E0.25 INCH WASHINGTON TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1054 PM HAIL 6 NE NEW WAVERLY 30.60N 95.41W
05/25/2011 E1.75 INCH WALKER TX PUBLIC

1054 PM HAIL 4 S HUNTSVILLE 30.65N 95.55W
05/25/2011 E0.88 INCH WALKER TX PUBLIC

1130 PM HAIL 2 N CLEVELAND 30.37N 95.08W
05/25/2011 E1.75 INCH LIBERTY TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1130 PM HAIL COLUMBUS 29.70N 96.55W
05/25/2011 E1.00 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1138 PM HAIL 6 W CLEVELAND 30.34N 95.18W
05/25/2011 E0.75 INCH MONTGOMERY TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1149 PM TORNADO 7 N PLUM GROVE 30.30N 95.09W
05/25/2011 LIBERTY TX PUBLIC

1150 PM HAIL 12 SSE COLUMBUS 29.54N 96.48W
05/25/2011 E1.75 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN ALTAIR AT THE INTERSECTION OF
HIGHWAYS 71 AND 98.

1150 PM HAIL 9 S COLUMBUS 29.57N 96.55W
05/25/2011 E1.75 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1200 AM HAIL WEIMAR 29.70N 96.78W
05/26/2011 E1.00 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1203 AM HAIL WEIMAR 29.70N 96.78W
05/26/2011 E1.00 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

1215 AM TORNADO KENEFICK 30.11N 94.85W
05/26/2011 LIBERTY TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

TREES DOWN ON FM 1008. SOME BLOCKING STREETS.

1224 AM TSTM WND DMG 6 SSE DAYTON 29.97N 94.86W
05/26/2011 LIBERTY TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

TREES BLOWN DOWN IN WESTLAKE.

1255 AM HAIL SHERIDAN 29.49N 96.67W
05/26/2011 E2.75 INCH COLORADO TX LAW ENFORCEMENT