2022 Rain Thread

[ballrific 215]

No vaseline in 31, hail, etc...strongest gusts ive seen in a long time

[boknowstecmo 216]

This is a fun storm. Poor guy across the courtyard's didn't know what was coming though. Chased his lawn chair a good 20 feet and then got his ass inside. I just Lonestar cheers'd him and kept watching the show. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,834]

Anyone got a live weather feed?

[hornian 5,204]

2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Anyone got a live weather feed?

It’s called a window. Look outside. 

[TexasMan 10,786]

Shit is howling really bad on the northeast side/Manor. Woke me up. 

[ballrific 215]

Live update...forcefield is down, save yo ass

[4th_and_18 687]

Sorry for your loss

[Jersey Man10 3,506]

I got hit hard driving on 281. Crazy lightning show and heavy rain but made it home safe.

[Grade of D as in David 13,253]

45 minutes ago, hornian said:

It’s called a window. Look outside. 

 

[atomheartbevo 89,409]

Only 18,000 in Austin without power now, so we’ve got that going for us.

[williemackgarza 1,826]

At least 1”-2 “ in 78665.
No power for last 2 hours.
All snowpocalypse kept power.
Lil rain, poof no power

[Biff Tannen 45,491]

9 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

The force field  always breaks down the night before trash day so that everyone’s garbage can blow out and down the street along with their garbage can things…so cool. Trash day eve always trumps force field. Undefeated!

and like clockwork with sideways rain some jack wagon is out jogging. Legit. 

but my trash day is on Friday...

[atomheartbevo 89,409]

Internet still flakey. Never forget.  

[South Austin 52,129]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Internet still flakey. Never forget.  

Sometimes those foreign porn sites take a while to upload.

[NorthLoop 14,083]

0.5 inches in NB. That's it. 

[crash_davis 23,083]

2 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

0.5 inches in NB. That's it. 

that's what she said

[Pescado_Rojo 19,331]

Well I learned last night that my full sized, slightly lifted Toyota Tundra will *barely* fit in my garage in a pinch. 

I also learned that @Nicole44 and I have the same trash day. 

[Armybrat 40,725]

One full inch overnight in Brushy Creek (west side of Round Rock).

First rain of note in 3 months. Prior to that we had a quarter inch total with two light showers.

[Orange&White 5,516]

1.12" last night. 2.76" in the last seven days. 360@Bull Creek.

 

So this is what it feels like to live in Bee Cave?

[phdhorn 6,224]

1.5" last night in Bee Cave.  Will have to machete through the jungle undergrowth later today.

Stuff should green up nicely until at least 2nd week of June.  We'll see after that.

[Deej 76,546]

12 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

One full inch overnight in Brushy Creek

Poor Mrs. Brat. 

[SquishMitten 10,398]

Guess I have a personal forcefield. Adding what we got last night, this whole storm system brought me 1/4 inch

[texasdago 7,553]

Maybe half-an-inch.  Boooo

 

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

heavy rain in 78757 with a few pings of tiny bits of hail occasionally heard. 

Your shingles should be bouncing those like it's raindrops.

Sidebar:  Apparently Tamko has gotten out of the hail resistant shingle business.
Insurer:  Well, if you say they are "hail resistant" then it is up to YOU to make a consumer whole in the event of damage, not us.
Tamko:  Guess what?  We quit that particular classification of shingle products.
https://drginsurancenetwork.com/spaces/16/public-support-drg-insurance-network/blogs/insurance/926/tamko-stops-making-ir-shingles-because-of-insurance-companies-assertions

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

18 hours ago, ballrific said:

No vaseline in 31, hail, etc...strongest gusts ive seen in a long time


 

Hi.

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

19 hours ago, 1978horn said:

Force field has been breached in 78737

Meh.  Piddly.

Haven't had a single call from anyone in Belterra / Highpointe / Ledgestone.

[clapclapclap 9,000]

21 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

 

Looks like rain was messing up his sat dish.

[Wally Pryor 5,244]

25 years ago tomorrow. Time flies. 

One of a kind nightmare:

[Wally Pryor 5,244]

And I think this still goes down as the most awe-inspiring tornado-related picture I've ever seen.

A subdivision completely wiped clean. Just swept up.

No houses. No people. No nothing.

[texasdago 7,553]

W T F

 

[Scheiss Meister 8,399]

I remember that.  Crazy stories from that one.  A family in a trailer took shelter in a brick house across the street.  The brick house was obliterated, while the trailer was barely touched.  The craziest though was that the tornado sucked the asphalt off of streets, leaving just flexible base.  Unreal.

[Brisketexan 104,559]

I remember that.  Crazy stories from that one.  A family in a trailer took shelter in a brick house across the street.  The brick house was obliterated, while the trailer was barely touched.  The craziest though was that the tornado sucked the asphalt off of streets, leaving just flexible base.  Unreal.

Yeah, that last fact was just flabbergasting. It peeled up the fucking pavement.
That’s otherworldly shit.

[ztejas 43,262]

Wasn't it the strongest tornado ever recorded in the US?

[NorthLoop 14,083]

If I recall, that storm system moved south towards the border. Supposedly they found dead cattle in Mexico that were branded in Wilco. 

[Hate 20,103]

The 2013 El Reno, Ok had the highest wind speeds ever measured in a tornado at 302 MPH.

Jarrell may have been higher but there were no measurements recorded higher. I’ve seen estimated that it was over 300 MPH.

[ztejas 43,262]

2 minutes ago, Hate said:

The 2013 El Reno, Ok had the highest wind speeds ever measured in a tornado at 302 MPH.

Jarrell may have been higher but there were no measurements recorded higher. I’ve seen estimated that it was over 300 MPH.

Yeah it seems like an inexact science. I wasn't able to find many great sources for strongest tornadoes ever. Seems like it was up there with the nastiest ever recorded. 

[Hate 20,103]

What made it particular destructive is that it was very slow moving so the highest wind speeds were over one area for quite a long time relatively speaking. Most tornados have a decent forward speed, but that one didn’t. It also cam from the NE and moved SW which is very rare (as mentioned by NL upthread).

[gsoda3 3,236]

If I recall, that storm system moved south towards the border. Supposedly they found dead cattle in Mexico that were branded in Wilco. 

Did they ever document that? That's insane.

[Pam Cummings 9,568]

7 hours ago, Hate said:

What made it particular destructive is that it was very slow moving so the highest wind speeds were over one area for quite a long time relatively speaking. Most tornados have a decent forward speed, but that one didn’t. It also cam from the NE and moved SW which is very rare (as mentioned by NL upthread).

Yep. The tornado in Jarrell sat over that subdivision for a few minutes. F5 tornado speeds in one spot for that long is just.....unreal. Probably a once in a lifetime type of tornado.

 

 

 

This is probably some of the best tornado footage....ever. You can see from the start, even as a little rope, just how violent it was going to be. Like a big drill bit into the earth.

Edited May 27, 2022 by Pam Cummings

[Wally Pryor 5,244]

7 hours ago, Hate said:

What made it particular destructive is that it was very slow moving so the highest wind speeds were over one area for quite a long time relatively speaking. Most tornados have a decent forward speed, but that one didn’t. It also cam from the NE and moved SW which is very rare (as mentioned by NL upthread).

Yeah, had forgotten. Just sat. And churned. And obliterated everything until, literally, there was nothing left to obliterate. Including the asphalt on the streets. 

[Wally Pryor 5,244]

1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

Yep. The tornado in Jarrell sat over that subdivision for a few minutes. F5 tornado speeds in one spot for that long is just.....unreal. Probably a once in a lifetime type of tornado.

 

 

 

This is probably some of the best tornado footage....ever. You can see from the start, even as a little rope, just how violent it was going to be. Like a big drill bit into the earth.

Oh man, thanks for posting. I've never seen that extended footage. Incredible. 

Was that from KVUE?

[phdhorn 6,224]

Lots of unusual about that tornado.  Not only the slow speed, but the tornado itself followed a rare path - moving NE→SW, the opposite of most storms.  A rare condition as well is that the tornado popped up right inside the frontal lift boundary, so it curved along the frontal line itself.  Again, pretty rare.

That system simply rode the frontal boundary down into N. Williamson, re-emerged briefly as an F-4 in Cedar Park (enough to take out half an HEB and a small part of a subdivision), lifted again, and re-emerged in West Lakeway, heading SW in the Bee Creek area, where it again dropped - as an F-4 down by RO Drive.  It crossed 71 about 3/4 mlie east of the Pedernales Bridge, entered yet another subdivision, was ready to buzzsaw that to nothingness - and then just simply dissolved and lifted, this time for good.

I went out to clean up in that subdivision the next day.  I drove out 71 and for about 250 yards the road itself was pulled up.  There was a swatch of dirt left where the pavement was.  When I got inside the subdivision, which had a lot of trees, I came upon devastation for only a small length- and then you could actually see the curve of the tornado's shape as is suddenly lifted.  What was left was a clear arc - the curve of the funnel, where on one side nothing was disturbed, and "inside" it, everything was nothing but wreckage.  I'll never forget that curved line, though.

Too much else to talk about, but that storm was heading straight for me - if it hadn't followed the curve of the front - in other words if the frontal boundary had been straighter - I probably would have not had a house.  As it was, it curved more W and went 5 miles west of me.

[Pam Cummings 9,568]

47 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Oh man, thanks for posting. I've never seen that extended footage. Incredible. 

Was that from KVUE?

Not sure. I think it may have just been some chasers who got incredibly lucky.

[Hate 20,103]

Here is a very nerdy report from the NWS on the tornado.

 

https://www.weather.gov/fwd/Jarrell-Tornado-Anniversary

 

Wikipedia has a pretty good write up about what happened and how unusual this tornado was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Central_Texas_tornado_outbreak

Edited May 27, 2022 by Hate

[Trey3216 15,325]

1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

Oh man, thanks for posting. I've never seen that extended footage. Incredible. 

Was that from KVUE?

I believe that's KWTX out of Waco.  The beginning parts of the footage are from the area where Robinson, Hewitt, and Lorena meet   

[Wally Pryor 5,244]

I was always struck by the seemingly benign, very thin, rope-like formation and it somehow morphing into a 3/4-mile wide monster. I'm not overly familiar with the science of a tornado's formation but that seemed odd. 

Big piece on the storm from KXAN: https://www.kxan.com/weather/jarrell-tornado-survivors-remember-the-last-f5-to-hit-central-texas-25-years-later/

[Moby Ric 2,058]

I bought a new car 3 weeks ago.  I have yet to use the windshield wipers.  Rain sensing wipers, and I have no idea if they work or not.  They sense no rain.

[Hate 20,103]

I was always struck by the seemingly benign, very thin, rope-like formation and it somehow morphing into a 3/4-mile wide monster. I'm not overly familiar with the science of a tornado's formation but that seemed odd. 
Big piece on the storm from KXAN: https://www.kxan.com/weather/jarrell-tornado-survivors-remember-the-last-f5-to-hit-central-texas-25-years-later/

Read the articles I posted above and it will begin to make sense.  An extremely rare event where 3 or 4 (including a gravity wave) things had to happen at the exact moment and location that they did to lead to this unique phenomenon.  We may not see another event like that one in our lifetimes.  There will be other EF-5 tornadoes that devastate lives and property, but ones like what hit Jarrell are possibly a once in a lifetime occurrence. Edited May 27, 2022 by Hate

[Trey3216 15,325]

Couple little popup showers in Hewitt this morning.  Got about .5" over the course of 45 minutes.  Won't have to water the yard for a few days now.  Vegetable garden loved it.  

[Orange&White 5,516]

The streets in my neighborhood (Bull Creek/36) were damp this morning at 5:45 when I left the house. The area around 360/183 looked like it had received a pretty substantial shower. Hydromet don't show a trace of either receiving any rain.