Sorry everyone, I knew this one was coming about an hour ago but here at work, there is virtually no time to type up a whole email on this… anyways, below is copy/paste of weather watch details. If you have a weather radio, you probably had it go off in your ear about this already.

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of


parts of central and North Texas


Effective this Wednesday morning and evening from 1125 am until
600 PM CDT.


Hail to 2.5 inches in diameter…thunderstorm wind gusts to 70
mph…and dangerous lightning are possible in these areas.


The Severe Thunderstorm Watch area is approximately along and 70
statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles north

northwest of San Angelo Texas to 40 miles northeast of Corsicana
Texas. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated

watch outline update (wous64 kwns wou2).

Remember…a Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are

favorable for 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. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally

do produce tornadoes.

Discussion…elevated thunderstorms will continue to increase in

coverage and intensity across central and N TX over the next few
hours…as isentropic lift strengthens atop the low-level frontal

surface in response to the approaching mid-level short-wave trough.
With 50 to 60 kt mid-level wswlys atop veering low-level

flow…shear will support rotating/supercell storms. While an
isolated damaging wind gust will be possible — particularly over

srn portions of the watch — given potential for some downdraft
enhancement due to sub-cloud evaporative cooling…primary threat

will be large hail.

Aviation…a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft

to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60
knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm

motion vector 24035.

>

Hey everyone, an update to the severe weather unfolding for this week. For the remainder of today March 23. we look to be relatively weather free aside from the strong southern winds. We appear to be set to receive a squall line of showers through the mid to late morning hours on Tuesday. An approaching cold front that is currently producing some severe weather from Oklahoma all the way through South Dakota will be pressing through the Metroplex in the 7am to 11 am time frame Tuesday. The front will likely stall out south of the Metroplex on Tuesday evening. This sets the stage for a severe weather outbreak for the southern parts of the Metroplex, eastern Texas and some of Louisiana. This front pulls back north again as a warm front on Friday and once again the severe weather threat returns for our area. Then finally there is an ouside chance for another severe weather threat this upcoming Monday though the details on this are still quite sketchy.

So in review, expect severe weather threats to be minor for Tuesday morning, though still possible as a squall line moves through the area. Wednesday may have severe weather potential as well as the frontal boundary stalls out across the southern parts of the Metroplex. Thursday may be slightly warm but likely no storms until maybe in the evening hours. Friday we have a severe weather threat but timing isnt known quite yet so I will give updates to this later. Saturday and Sunday look to be great weather, if maybe a tad on the cool side. Then finally a possible severe weather threat again on Monday/

>

Hey folks, here’s an update to the forecast severe weather outbreak for Monday March 23rd. Currently the Storm Prediction Center has North Central Oklahoma and South Central Kansas under a Moderate risk for severe weather. This places the primary risk area about 100 miles to our north, and would be perfect for storm chasing if [read more...]

Abnormally quiet across the entire country today

Below is a screenshot from the SPC showing all the weather advisories issued across the country. As you can see there are only two advisories issued out in California, otherwise the scope is clear. Calm before the storm perhaps? >

I missed the last interesting weather event with the cold blast and continuous rain by about 24 hours, so I am gonna try to make up for that by giving everyone a 5 day lead time on this next event. Currently the Storm Prediction Center has a fairly healthy portion of tornado alley under a [read more...]

This is going out to my Florida and Texas weather groups since I think the information is quite relevant to both. Meteorologically speaking Spring is already here for the plains states and for Florida and soon it will be official with the vernal equinox just around the corner. While Florida is in the core of [read more...]

Photo Gallery: Dallas World Aquarium and the West End

Took a trip today to the Dallas World Aquarium and the West End. Surprisingly it very cool, I didn’t expect there to be a whole lot that was entertaining or anything. Apparently since the Aquarium is right in the West End, we got to walk around there for a bit while the Saint Patty’s day [read more...]

Looks like the rainfall has ended for today for the entire region. Next batch of rain will likely begin around midnight and continue for most of the day Friday. The estimated rainfall totals are slightly less for Friday than they were for Wednesday, so expect probably another 1-2 inches of accumulation. Below are rainfall totals [read more...]

Mar 122009
Rainfall estimates so far

Below is a radar snap of estimated rainfall between 3/10/09 4:43pm and 3/12/09 12:29pm. The Frisco area indicated by the small red + is sitting around 2.75 inches estimated. >

Mar 112009

Hey everyone, I should have sent out an email about this yesterday but well, theres only 24 hours in a day and i think most of our schedules would still be jammed if there were an extra 6 hours. Anyways the rain currently drenching North Texas is forecast to continue continuously through at least midnight [read more...]

© 2011 Sean Toner - WatchingtheSkies.com Contact us Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha
Highslide for Wordpress Plugin