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31 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Force field operating just fine in Georgetown.

Ugh.  Solid red line of storms heading straight to Austin from the west since about 4 AM, and then... poof.

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Thunder is rumbling, and the skies are growing darker. More is on its way, making it the third day in a row of rain, and four of the last five.

Bring it - just no more hail, please.

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24 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Thunder is rumbling, and the skies are growing darker. More is on its way, making it the third day in a row of rain, and four of the last five.

Bring it - just no more hail, please.

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Don't mean to make this thread all about me, me, me, but the NWS's report on that Sunday evening storm I posted photos of has come in:

BIG SPRING, Texas — A powerful storm barreled through Big Spring on Sunday night, causing widespread destruction and prompting the city’s mayor to issue a local disaster declaration.

Winds reached up to 119 mph as the severe thunderstorm struck shortly after a warning was issued around 7:40 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The storm produced damaging wind gusts and baseball-sized hail, which shattered windows, downed power lines and tore through homes and vehicles across the area.

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28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Don't mean to make this thread all about me, me, me, but the NWS's report on that Sunday evening storm I posted photos of has come in:

BIG SPRING, Texas — A powerful storm barreled through Big Spring on Sunday night, causing widespread destruction and prompting the city’s mayor to issue a local disaster declaration.

Winds reached up to 119 mph as the severe thunderstorm struck shortly after a warning was issued around 7:40 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The storm produced damaging wind gusts and baseball-sized hail, which shattered windows, downed power lines and tore through homes and vehicles across the area.

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Austin says

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Through a hail-smashed window and everything.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Austin says

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Through a hail-smashed window and everything.

But that was a long time ago in Austin summer precipitation time.  Now... it's never going to rain in Austin again. :(

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, he’s living in a run-down hotel.

Is Settles run-down these days? It’s probably been a decade or longer, but when I stayed there the owner had dumped a ton of money into it and it was fairly nice. 

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26 minutes ago, 3adays said:

Is Settles run-down these days? It’s probably been a decade or longer, but when I stayed there the owner had dumped a ton of money into it and it was fairly nice. 

Other than the recently broken windows, it's not run down in the slightest.

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1 hour ago, Chet Steadman said:

That was some of the shield’s best work to date.  
 

I swear, with the exception of two weeks ago, the FF has been getting increasingly stronger.  

Watching the radar at about 2am, I was certain I'd get at least 2 inches. 

 

Nope. 1/4 inch. 

 

 

Totals for last night. 

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Two days over the watershed though… 

stream flow now… totals over 48 hours. Man if we could get 4-5 more over the watershed the next few days that would be HUGE.

 

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Buchanan has come up nearly 5 feet since mid May. The current forecast calls for a few more inches in the watershed over the next week. It sure would be nice to go out there and not have to walk 10 minutes to get to the water. 

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2 hours ago, troph said:

Two days over the watershed though… 

stream flow now… totals over 48 hours. Man if we could get 4-5 more over the watershed the next few days that would be HUGE.

 

1 hour ago, troph said:

kxan showing rain more likely east of the lakes the next two days. not saying no rain out west but not the bullseye we need. we'll see. 

Yeah the rain has been nice, especially in the Buchanan recharge zone, but what we really need is a 5+ inches across a wide swath of the recharge zones, all at once.  With the ground already being saturated and ready for runoff, THAT would be the kind of event to get multiple streamflows up into the 10K-20K cfs range, which is what it takes to move the lakes feet at a time, rather than inches at a time.

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