Rain has been sparse since August. Each time we have a chance, it just falls apart. Great, temps are dropping...but no water to go with that front. Oof.
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It's bad. Family member that has cattle only baled half the amount of hay they typically do.
Brazos County is now back in "Severe Drought" according to the latest Drought Monitoring Map: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX
15 million Texans are in some drought-covered area. Through last week water demand in College Station was still 19-20 million gallons per day, which is way high for this time of year. As we move into cooler temperatures we need to cut back on irrigation to avoid fungal diseases.
Brazos County is now back in "Severe Drought" according to the latest Drought Monitoring Map: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX
15 million Texans are in some drought-covered area. Through last week water demand in College Station was still 19-20 million gallons per day, which is way high for this time of year. As we move into cooler temperatures we need to cut back on irrigation to avoid fungal diseases.
If I'm not woken up by a tornado hitting the house tonight, I'll be happy.
If I don't have to hide with the feral children in the bathroom, same.
Well...
Quote:
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 554
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
725 PM CDT Mon Oct 24 2022
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Tornado Watch for portions of
Central to east-central Texas
* Effective this Monday night from 725 PM until Midnight CDT.
* Primary threats include...
A couple tornadoes possible
Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75
mph possible
Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
SUMMARY...A discrete supercell or two may persist along a
west/east-oriented outflow boundary, while a broader squall line
likely expands and accelerates east across central into east-central
Texas through the rest of this evening.
The tornado watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles
north and south of a line from 30 miles northwest of Austin TX to 45
miles north of Huntsville TX. For a complete depiction of the watch
see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch
area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for
threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements
and possible warnings.
&&
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 553...
AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail
surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
gusts to 65 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean
storm motion vector 26045.
...Grams
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
1.5 inch hail. Fabulous.
FlyRod said:
1.5 inch hail. Fabulous.
I could do without that.
Tornadic storm over Williamson County headed in our general direction. Tornado warning also issued for Milam County.
It was radar indicated, but a pretty good tornado signature for a brief time.
Edit: Tornado was very near Jarrell and likely crossed I-35. Reports of numerous vehicles off the road including tractor-trailers. The radar also had a tornado debris signature for a short time.
There is no tornado evident at this time, but one could easily spin back up.
It was radar indicated, but a pretty good tornado signature for a brief time.
Edit: Tornado was very near Jarrell and likely crossed I-35. Reports of numerous vehicles off the road including tractor-trailers. The radar also had a tornado debris signature for a short time.
There is no tornado evident at this time, but one could easily spin back up.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Like poor Jarrell needs this.
So right now nothing is looking tornadic right now and the the NWS is going to let the tornado warnings expire.
And for anyone who wants to watch, KBTX is streaming live.
https://www.facebook.com/kbtxmedia/videos/?ref=page_internal
https://www.kbtx.com/livestream/ (Live Events)
And for anyone who wants to watch, KBTX is streaming live.
https://www.facebook.com/kbtxmedia/videos/?ref=page_internal
https://www.kbtx.com/livestream/ (Live Events)
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
I need to pull up the Ryan Hall Y'all YouTube channel.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Brazos County.
Sounds like right now it is mostly a wind threat with possible quarter size hail.
Sounds like right now it is mostly a wind threat with possible quarter size hail.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Yeah, I'm betting we have a ton of dead trees from the drought falling tonight. I chopped one down a couple weeks ago. It would been on my fence by now.
Rocking and rolling here. Power has cut out several times, but come back up 5-10 seconds later.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Sorry for the jinx like OP. Good luck everyone.
About 5000 without power in Bryan and Brazos County.
CS up to about 500 out.
Looks like the worst is moving out quickly.
CS up to about 500 out.
Looks like the worst is moving out quickly.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
Power out in south CS near costco, definitely flickered on and off a few times before it finally gave out
Navasota River area. Lots of thunder and wind. No rain.
bad timing to be camped out for ticket pull pic.twitter.com/mNeCt63spt
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Ripped off our patio roof near Wixon Valley. Will have to assess in the morning. Never lost power.
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BTU looks to have the bulk of their outages back up. Major remaining concentration looks to be in the area of SH-47 and Leonard Rd.
Those crazy wind gusts and the amount of old windows/sliding doors in our bedrooms had us camped out in the bathroom for a short bit.
Need to go investigate the tree limb situation this morning.
Need to go investigate the tree limb situation this morning.
I really think I had swirling wind on the west side of Bryan (off Leonard and 47). Tree branches down. I had some long metal that was being stored and a couple pieces got bend back but I have a small goat hauler (fits in a truck) that was blown the opposite direction. Same with a tree next to my sheep shelter. Branches broke the way you would expect with the direction of this storm but the back side of the roof of the shelter was blown back the opposite direction.
Main damage besides the sheep shelter was a large branch broke and dented my metal garage roof enough to cause it to leak. Plus I am pretty sure I heard some hail during the worst of it.
Time to find a roofer today to get an estimate on the garage. Hopefully not too bad and I don't have to file a claim. Everything else is just clean up and chainsaw work.
Main damage besides the sheep shelter was a large branch broke and dented my metal garage roof enough to cause it to leak. Plus I am pretty sure I heard some hail during the worst of it.
Time to find a roofer today to get an estimate on the garage. Hopefully not too bad and I don't have to file a claim. Everything else is just clean up and chainsaw work.
Trees down on Copperfield drive by physicians center when I left at 7am, pretty rough last night
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Always impressed by BTU's ability to get power back on relatively quickly. Great job again, folks!
Burn ban. Brazos county.
EliteElectric said:
Trees down on Copperfield drive by physicians center when I left at 7am, pretty rough last night
Saw a tree down on Walton at Francis. Might be resting on a truck.
so many trees down in my neighborhood, across villa maria form midtown, i wonder if we had some microburst or small tornado.
Was driving home after the gym around 10:20, and when there was lightning last night the sky was green
Was driving home after the gym around 10:20, and when there was lightning last night the sky was green
Can confirm on the green sky. This was out of my back window in Anderson at 10:20pm, facing NW. This wasn't a flash of lightning - the sky was permanently this color because there was so much continuous lightning that it just looked like dusk.
