02/22/05 NOW: TEXAS

[mikegeukes]

I am starting a now thread for the current severe weather going on in
Texas. Severe Thunderstorm Watch is out for Central and Southwest Texas
and a few Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been issued.

Warnings and Statements can be found here:
http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/
http://kamala.cod.edu/tx/
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/tx/allwarnings.html
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/tx.html

Feel free to discuss below:

Mike

 

[Jay McCoy]

Storms now firing along the cold front near Amarillo well north of the watch area but good storms none the less.

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
547 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

TXC375-230015-
/O.CON.KAMA.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050223T0015Z/
POTTER TX-
547 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR
POTTER COUNTY...

AT 537 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AMARILLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

AT 533 PM CST...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS REPORTED AT
INDIAN HILLS ROAD IN NORTHWEST AMARILLO WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3561 10207 3518 10208 3519 10164 3562 10164

If I didnt have the flu and had my required AES spotter training tonight at 7pm I would be out playing right now. Still nice to hear thunder and see some nice towers.

 

[Sam Sagnella]

New blue box out all the way to the Red River area.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0...w0032_radar.gif

Healthy looking cell in Young Co., TX; gate-to-gates not unimpressive...

 

[Robert Dewey]

I just pulled a cross section on the large cell in TX - Looks pretty impressive, at least size-wise -

http://69.14.190.10/images/slice1.png
http://69.14.190.10/images/slice2.png

http://69.14.190.10/images/slice3.png
http://69.14.190.10/images/slice4.png

I haven't checked out the atmospheric setup, but it appears that the storm's mean motion is northeast, perhaps along a boundary. The boundary appears to be slowly sliding to the northwest, which is causing the storm to "backbuild" northwest, while maintining the mean northeast motion. Overall, the storm doesn't look too organized, and has plenty of outflow...

 

[mikegeukes]

712 PM: Report of Softball Size in Taylor County, 8 miles southwest of Abilene, Texas

EDIT: Tornado Warning now for SW Coleman County, NE Concho County and NW MC Culloch County until 830 PM CST.

Mike

 

[Robert Dewey]

The storm seems to be falling apart now... I did capture a cross section showing a 65Dbz core suspended aloft in the storm - ( http://69.14.190.10/images/slice5.png , http://69.14.190.10/images/slice6.png )

It also had a nice BWER - ( http://69.14.190.10/images/slice7.png , http://69.14.190.10/images/slice8.png )

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Two very nice looking supercells south of Abilene... Very nice low-level (0.5degree) couplet! The left-mover moving north-northeastward looks to be bowing out very nicely now, heading into OUN's western north Texas domain. Is this an OMEN?! Hopes to hoping!

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Two very nice looking supercells south of Abilene... Very nice low-level (0.5degree) couplet! The left-mover moving north-northeastward looks to be bowing out very nicely now, heading into OUN's western north Texas domain. Is this an OMEN?! Hopes to hoping!

Did somoeone save radar loop of this good left mover?

 

[beaudodson]

The storm seems to be falling apart now... I did capture a cross section showing a 65Dbz core suspended aloft in the storm - ( http://69.14.190.10/images/slice5.png , http://69.14.190.10/images/slice6.png )

It also had a nice BWER - ( http://69.14.190.10/images/slice7.png , http://69.14.190.10/images/slice8.png )

Great images. That was one an impressive thunderstorm.

February is starting to become pretty active.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Two very nice looking supercells south of Abilene... Very nice low-level (0.5degree) couplet! The left-mover moving north-northeastward looks to be bowing out very nicely now, heading into OUN's western north Texas domain. Is this an OMEN?! Hopes to hoping!

Did somoeone save radar loop of this good left mover?

I caught it on KSJT radar: http://69.14.190.10/images/KSJT_ANIMATION/...N/anistest.html

I don't mind if you go into the directory ( http://69.14.190.10/images/KSJT_ANIMATION/ ) and save all of the files locally and upload them to another website, but please don't link directly to my site (as it's not a 24 hour 'always on' server).