5/02/07 NOW: TX

[HAltschule]

Interesting and kind of infrequent that a line of storms produces widespread winds of over 90 MPH. NWS has this in there warning text. Checking for measured verification....

Kaufman, Van Zandt and Rains counties appear to have the highest likelihood for the 90mph winds right now...

 

[HAltschule]

Terrell, TX (Kaufman county). Wind estimated by spotter at 95-100mph. Widespread damage.

EDIT: DFW Measured winds of 55 mph.

 

[Matt Ziebell]

Well, I just noticed CoD's tracker shows they are in Mexico. Given their latest status report, either they blew a tire or are watching one nice supercell!

"n34.14mi SW of Carrizo Springs, TX, Stopped"

 

[Sam Shamburger]

dfw area winds

here's some of the peak winds from surface obs around the dallas/fort worth area:

DFW Airport: 48 knots/55 mph
Dallas Red Bird Airport: 53 knots/61 mph
Dallas Love Field: 40 knots/46 mph
Mckinney Airport: 62 knots/71 mph
Arlington Airport: 52 knots/60 mph
Terrell Airport: 46 knots/53 mph (before asos lost wind data)

 

[Bill Tabor]

Well, I just noticed CoD's tracker shows they are in Mexico. Given their latest status report, either they blew a tire or are watching one nice supercell!

"n34.14mi SW of Carrizo Springs, TX, Stopped"

That's hilarious! COD is in Mexico:
http://weather.cod.edu/

See link under '2007 Chasing Has Begun'

 

[Rich Thompson]

The COD bunch has returned safely to the US.

Rich T.

 

[Brandon Sullivan]

Watching this cell in what i think is Frio County.. Got 3 seperate meso indicators, with 2.5 inch hail.. this all via gr level 3

 

[Erik Perozo]

WoW those fat monsters refuse to cross over the Border. Guess they are scared they might become illegal...LOL. They have maintained some nice signatures on radar. Storm Attribute showing a VIL around 84 on one of those fat cells. NE MX has been the place to be lately; there's been fat supercells three days in a row out there. Sdb cells really love this area. I would love to chase across MX but I wonder how the roads are?

 

[Jeff Snyder]

The bow that has crossed northcentral and into northeastern TX has been quite impressive! I'm surprised the 01z SWODY1 did not include a hatched wind prob and/or MDT upgrade across northcentral and northeastern TX given that the high-end wind event was in progress at the time of issuance. Then again, I think the highest wind threat was beginning to wane by 1z, and the threat by that time may have been limited to a dozen or fewer counties (better handled by warnings). I'd be surprised if there aren't more wind reports from northeastern TX, as the LSRs released so far don't show a whole lot in the way of wind damage in northeastern TX.

As has been noted by others, it'll be interesting to see if the cold pool / outflow associated with this well-organized bow echo impedes moisture return for Friday's setup... That's a substantial cold pool and meso-high in northern Texas, and the 850mb flow forecasts from the 0z NAM doesn't indicates much in the way of strong southerly flow across most of Texas through Friday afternoon...

 

[Brandon Sullivan]

Wow.. That discrete cell in Frio County is looking pretty impressive still