Long term drought for Texas- :-(

[Western]

Jim,

Maybe you have your gate lock on backwards.:laughing:

I see some bad storms moving East from Ft worth today, seems like every storm lately comes with a catch!! what happen to those nice calm refreshing rains without all the drama of hail, wind, and tornado's?

My wife's truck that my daughter uses got hammered in Weatherford last night, hood and fenders full of hail marks. The Wal-Mart my daughter works at while in school had some skylight broken out too.

 

[texasjohn]

Very cloudy this morning...looked like "it couldn't help but rain." At noon driving to Salado to get a bite, mist hit the windshield but dried so fast I never needed the wipers...weather projection was right... 50% of the area got precipitation..just an immeasurable amount

 

[Bird]

We didn't have anything today until a little after 3 p.m. when the wind hit, the city's siren was blaring, and the rain came again. The good news is that I haven't seen any sign of damage in our neighborhood, the high winds didn't last long, and I got another third of an inch of rain.

Sorry to hear about the hail damage, Dennis.

 

[jinman]

My glass block window for my new bathroom arrived at Lowe's in Decatur yesterday. I went to pick it up yesterday afternoon and drove through some hard rain around Alvord that lasted alsmost until I got to Decatur. I could see several storms off to the south and east also. However, it seemed like the storm I drove through was going away.

Inside the store when I inspected my window, they wanted to know if I wanted to just leave the window there for awhile because they said they heard of heavy rain and quarter sized hail between Decatur and Alvord. I checked the padding around the window and figured since it was glass block, it would take a heavier beating than regular glass. Besides, after waiting three weeks on my window, I didn't want to leave it there. I told them to load it into my truck and I'd take responsibility.

As I left the store, I noticed the sky seemed to be clearing. I drove home under sunny skies the whole way home and the box didn't even get damp.:thumbsup: You just never know with Texas springtime storms. I've sure been lucky through all of this to avoid any bad hail or high winds. Our neighbors around Waxahachie and up in Hopkins Counties didn't fair as well. I heard Sulphur Springs had 100 mph straight line winds. No thanks!:shocked:

 

[markrahn]

I know this has seemed to be the windiest spring in a long time. That and no rain down here. The sandy clay loam around my place is cracking pretty bad in spots. Sure could use some nice slow rain overnight for a couple of nights.

Anyone got the address to send that request to?

On my way to work this morning in San Antonio, we had patchy fog, the gate was wet from the humidity, sure felt like the water should just fall out of the air, but nothin. Did manage to hit a deer on the way in, no damage, locked up the brakes and just clipped her with the bumper. The FM was wet so I couldnt get her woahed up in time.
The deer rolled a few times in the ditch and got up and run off.

please send rain.

 

[joemd11]

I sure wish I could send some of our rain down to you guys in Texas. I live in Western Pa and we are having record rainfall. My yard is so mushy you can hardly walk on it. The grass is getting really high but it is just too wet to cut. I think our rain total for April is over 6" and there is no end in sight. Hang in there guys.

 

[Western]

I sure wish I could send some of our rain down to you guys in Texas. I live in Western Pa and we are having record rainfall. My yard is so mushy you can hardly walk on it. The grass is getting really high but it is just too wet to cut. I think our rain total for April is over 6" and there is no end in sight. Hang in there guys.

Don't know who should file a formal complaint, you guy's getting flooded with our share of water, or us Southern boy's since y'all are hogging it all.

Mother nature can sure be a real Bit$#.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Well, all in all, we got 1-1/4". We had 2 waves of hail come through, not too much in either one. The first one dropped stuff that was smaller than a pea and the second heavier one had quarter sized hail. There was surprisingly little damage considering the wind was gusting to 60 mph during all of this. I went outside to make sure all the drains were clear of leaves and watched the tops of the pine trees in the yard moving about 15 feet in the gusts. I heard a couple of ominous 'cracks' but nothing came down.

We got lucky. We'll wait and see what today brings. It's getting dark outside right now but not too threatening.

 

[NativeSon]

Here in Wood county there's good news and bad news. We've avoided the storms.....but we ain't got a lot of rain. It looks really bad in the mid-west.

With all the storms I hate to resort to the Cherokee "Rain Dance" just to get a little moisture. Problem is the last time I did it I found out I could bring rain, but I didn't know how to stop it.

Charlie

 

[EddieWalker]

Well, all in all, we got 1-1/4". We had 2 waves of hail come through, not too much in either one. The first one dropped stuff that was smaller than a pea and the second heavier one had quarter sized hail. There was surprisingly little damage considering the wind was gusting to 60 mph during all of this. I went outside to make sure all the drains were clear of leaves and watched the tops of the pine trees in the yard moving about 15 feet in the gusts. I heard a couple of ominous 'cracks' but nothing came down.

We got lucky. We'll wait and see what today brings. It's getting dark outside right now but not too threatening.

Frank,

I'm guessing you are about ten miles from me? I didn't get anything out of last nights storm. A little thunder, but no wind or enough rain to make my dirt muddy.

Right now, 5pm, I'm getting some showers, LOUD thunder and tons of threats on the news about what's heading this way. Tornado warnings, large hail warnings and 80 mph wind warnings. All I want is some rain!!!!!

Eddie

 

[EastTexFrank]

Native Son, I'm east of Mineola and disregard my last post about not being threatening. There's a storm cell, possibly containing tornadoes, certainly with rotation, that looks as if it's going to run over the house in about 20 minutes. It may stay a little south of you but keep an eye on it. We're usually ready for such things but going to check and make sure just in case. Later. Be careful.

Eddie, it looks as if it's going to run right over you. Batten down the hatches.

 

[EddieWalker]

Frank,

I'm watching it. They have a tornado in Van, and it's just building strength!!! Hail the size of peas, and over 900 lightning strikes in the past hour. I'm 30 minutes from getting hit. I don't know who is in more trouble, you or me?

Are you watching it on KLTV? They are showing pics of multiple tornadoes as I type this.

Eddie

 

[houstonscott]

Looks like the long term pattern of dry has been broken, Texas is starting to get back to a normal weather pattern. Let hope so anyway. Houston is still dry though


HS

 

[firedog]

Frank,

I'm watching it. They have a tornado in Van, and it's just building strength!!! Hail the size of peas, and over 900 lightning strikes in the past hour. I'm 30 minutes from getting hit. I don't know who is in more trouble, you or me?

Are you watching it on KLTV? They are showing pics of multiple tornadoes as I type this.

Eddie

I sure hope you and Frank miss the bad stuff and get some rain out of this. Still dry as a bone down here in Liberty Co.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Well, that was interesting.

The storm that was tracking to the NE turned almost due East and slipped by just to the south of us. I could faintly hear the sirens go off in Lindale which reportedly got hit with some 3" hail and had tornadoes all around. Unfortunately, that puts it running right over the top of Eddie. Hope that he's OK. Let us know.

At the house we got a nice 1-1/4" rain out of it and nothing too violent. Strangely, there was almost a flat calm as the storm went through. That's the first time in what seems like months that the wind hasn't been blowing in East Texas.

I can still hear rumblings all around but the sky has started to brighten up so it looks as if it's all past us. We didn't even need to evacuate to the "bunker".

 

[texasjohn]

Hope EVERYBODY (in Texas) misses the bad stuff and just gets wet. Wish it were true that normal patterns are returning, but can't see it at present...I've gotten no moisture of any consequence yet this year. Yes, some .4 inches followed by drying winds for days.... does no good.

Latest storms are a county or two north and east of me. Cracks in Houston Black Clay as large as 2 inches in places.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Still nothing for us. Everything was north of us except one small shower that just missed us south of here.

I watered my puny garden by hand with a bucket and water from the kid's inflatable swimming pool.

 

[Western]

With all the storms I hate to resort to the Cherokee "Rain Dance" just to get a little moisture. Problem is the last time I did it I found out I could bring rain, but I didn't know how to stop it.Charlie

Maybe try dancing "backwards"

Boy, you guys in East Texas got it good today!! 8 tornados whew!! Hope all is well when the sun comes out.

 

[EastTexFrank]

It's all blown through but we haven't heard from Eddie. Some of that really bad stuff was right over him. I hope that he's OK. Still, he's a working man and may have felt the need to go to bed and get ready for work tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

 

[EddieWalker]

It was just North of me. I was dead center for the worse of it, but then it just eased North a tad and went right past me. I received 1.57 inches of rain with a small amount of hail. Nothing very large, and not enough to even get a picture of it before it melted. The thunder was amazing, but what really impressed me was how much lightning there was. The news channel said that there was almost 1,000 hits per hour, and then it increased. I don't think they can keep track of them after that, but the pictures on TV made it look like a solid blanket of lightning strikes. I went out on my porch to see, and it was like being in a dance club with flashing strobe lights going off. It was non stop, and everywhere!!!!

I lost power multiple times and was using my Droid phone to watch the radar images on Weatherbug.

Like Frank said, Lindale got 3 inch hail. That's ten miles from my place, and I was right in line for the storm after it left Lindale.

There was also at leat four tornadoes. One of them crossed Interstate 20 and took out all sorts of trees. They had to close the Interstate because of the debris and damage. Two of the tornadoes where less then 20 miles from my brothers ranch, but he never saw anything. The other one was close to some friends of mine, but they also didn't see anything.

From the news reports, this was a very serious storm. It amazes me that a storm will start here. They just form from nothing about an hour from where I live, and then work their way across the country, getting bigger and stronger. I hope this one doesn't do any more damage, it looks like a lot of you have had enough rain already and don't need any more.

Good luck to everyone who is in path of this storm.

Eddie