T-Storms on Friday

[MannyIsGod]

Maybe some hail. Gonna be a loud afternoon though.

[fraga]

Damn you Manny...you'd better be right this time..

[AlamoSpursFan]

I wanna know who ordered up the damn hurricane that apparently arrived this afternoon. Jesus jumped up Christ, it is no fun at freaking all unloading 9 foot tall stacks of cases of chips in a goddamn gale! I looked like one of those idiot reporters hugging a lamp post to keep from blowing the fuck down the street!

[THE HATER]

Maybe some hail. Gonna be a loud afternoon though.


so its going to be a nice day...

[LuvBones]

Yes! How perfect. :)

[PM5K]

Guess I'd better put the Jeep under the car port, she doesn't like hail much...

[tw05baller]

I wanna know who ordered up the damn hurricane that apparently arrived this afternoon. Jesus jumped up Christ, it is no fun at freaking all unloading 9 foot tall stacks of cases of chips in a goddamn gale! I looked like one of those idiot reporters hugging a lamp post to keep from blowing the fuck down the street!

try taking christmas lights down off of the roof and trees.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

What time are the T-storms expected to hit?

[Sunshine]

Here's what the WeatherBug is saying:

NOW
Through 12 noon...scattered light rain showers will become more numerous across south central Texas and the Hill Country. A developing line of showers and thunderstorms will move into Val Verde County by noon. Rainfall amounts will be light...measuring one tenth of an inch or less...higher totals up to one inch from the thunderstorms.

TODAY
Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning...then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe. Locally heavy rainfall possible in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

TONIGHT
Showers and thunderstorms before midnight...then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Some thunderstorms may be severe before midnight. Locally heavy rainfall possible before midnight. Cooler. Lows around 50. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent.

[Solid D]

BUMP for Manny Update.

[Solid D]

It's getting kind of dark around S.A...

[01Snake]

We aren't getting shit in Stone Oak area (yet?). Austin looks to be getting some action.

[Kori Ellis]

The storm just arrived at our house.

[SrA Husker]

There was a downpour a minute after I walked out of work and ended a few seconds before arriving at my dorm a few minutes later. I love my luck.

[ChumpDumper]

When the front rolled through Crawford, apparently there was a chance for a tornado and the Bushses waited out the storm in some kind of armored vehicle.

[1369]

We aren't getting shit in Stone Oak area (yet?). Austin looks to be getting some action.

Sun's out on the Blanco side of Stone Oak.

[ashbeeigh]

When the front rolled through Crawford, apparently there was a chance for a tornado and the Bushses waited out the storm in some kind of armored vehicle.

:lmao Was there even a Severe Thunderstorm Warning?

[Solid D]

It rained a good while here and I did actually hear some thunder, so I guess it qualified.

[MannyIsGod]

Tornado watch? Damn.

Shits really lighting up east of town.

[MannyIsGod]

I believe the front is still far to the West, so it should be an interesting evening.

[Sunshine]

It'll hit about the time I walk out to my car after I get off work.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

:lmao Was there even a Severe Thunderstorm Warning?

There was a tornado warning at the time.

I've started building an ark up here in Dallas, it's nuts...

[fraga]

Manny you've screwed us once again...

[Das Texan]

i havent seen shit.

[MannyIsGod]

Manny you've screwed us once again...It poured here.

[fraga]

Rain yes...no hail...loud...NO...damn you and your false psychic powers...

[LuvBones]

I hear thunder..

[Melmart1]

Plenty of thunder over here near Woodlawn Lake. It rained last night, though I didn't hear it but there was practically a pond in the front yard and it has been raining off and on all day and just started up again.

[spurschick]

I've gotten a little rain throughout the day – now I'm finally hearing thunder.

[fraga]

Okay okay...finally....FINALLY heard the thunder...I saw no hail however...no hail...

[boutons_]

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ewx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

As of 23:00 Friday, nearly all of San Antonio area has nothing but a "trace" for "storm total", less than 0.2".

[IX_Equilibrium]

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ewx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

As of 23:00 Friday, nearly all of San Antonio area has nothing but a "trace" for "storm total", less than 0.2".


That should be changing right now. It's been raining steady here for about 30 minutes.

[Solid D]

It rained out at the Palladium tonight.

[Kori Ellis]

It's been raining here for hours and hours.

[MannyIsGod]

Here too. Still raining.

[Saddam's Ghost]

Manny :wtf? you should be blogging about my death and you're in a thread about the WEATHER?

[Saddam's Ghost]

I thought we were brahs?

[MannyIsGod]

Zombie Saddam would have been better.

[BIG IRISH]

Manny :wtf? you should be blogging about my death and you're in a thread about the WEATHER?

No one reads Manny's BLOGS.

Manny stick you head out the window and when the rain lets up let us know. :lol

[boutons_]

"That should be changing right now"

yep, by Sat morning, most of SA got 0.5, and some go 1.0.

[MannyIsGod]

That is delayed Boutons, parts of SA definetly got more than an inch. They don't update the page in realtime.

[boutons_]

"They don't update the page in realtime."

It's near real time. The delay is not hours or days, but probably a couple 10s of minutes.

The 10 gif images of the animation loops are spaced every 6 minutes, which implies that is 24x7 sampling/data collection rate.

Many times ( not that many recently thanks to the last 18 months of severe drought) I've correlated the NWS animation images with the rain in my neighborhood of Starcrest@410 and have found them to be entertainingly and repeatedly accurate.

I'm sure the same National Weather Service (New Braunfels radar) data is used to animate the weather amoebae on local TV stations.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ewx&product=NTP&overlay=11101111&loop=no

At the very latest, that "total rain" image is an hour delayed, but probably good for up to the last 6 minutes.

[MannyIsGod]

Its delayed further, and its not very accurate in certain situations. They sometimes have to go back and adjust it.

When you have extremely heavy rain at the radar site - like you had yesterday - you don't get the true read on how heavy the rain is the further out you go because of a loss of signal due to the heavy rain. Its kinda like when you lose your satellite signal at home in a rain storm - the same principle applies. Because of that, you don't get completely accurate rainfall totals.

Also, when you have storms with hail content, it throws the measurements off as well because of the higher than normal reflectivity. The systems aren't all that accurate in many situations.

The radars are good, but you're getting processed data, not what the NWS actually uses.