Author Topic: Hurricane Season 2017  (Read 7496 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline CW2274

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6731
    • Conditions @ CW2274 West Tucson-Painted Hills Ranch
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2017, 09:42:41 PM »
Maybe scare tactics to make people leave.
Little late for that...

Offline waysta

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 148
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2017, 11:45:52 PM »
3 News Corpus Christi has been streaming live:

http://www.kiiitv.com/news/live_breaking/kiii-breaking-news/280701833

Landfall, and probably worst damage was just NE, Rockport.  Aransas Pass got hit pretty hard too.

(old stomping grounds too many years back)

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2017, 12:23:07 AM »
Here is the Rockport Wx station where eye is currently. Looks like anemometer broke.

http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=RCPT2&unit=0&timetype=LOCAL

METEOROLOGICAL SITE AT COPANO BAY NEAR ROCKPORT 8NNE  117mph before going down.

http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=MAXT2

« Last Edit: August 26, 2017, 12:41:52 AM by ValentineWeather »
Randy

Offline Sooner Al

  • Old enough to know better...
  • Senior Member
  • **
  • Posts: 91
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2017, 05:40:26 AM »
3 News Corpus Christi has been streaming live:

http://www.kiiitv.com/news/live_breaking/kiii-breaking-news/280701833

Landfall, and probably worst damage was just NE, Rockport.  Aransas Pass got hit pretty hard too.

(old stomping grounds too many years back)

We spend all of March in Rockport-Fulton. Sad they took a direct hit... :-(
Retired NWS ESA/ET
Sys: Davis VP2 (Wireless)

Offline dupreezd

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 512
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2017, 10:16:34 AM »
Current rain rate
 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Davis VP2 6163 | WiFi Logger
CWOP - FW0717
Blitzortung 2100

Offline Glenn

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 418
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2017, 03:30:22 PM »
Wow! Hang in there.
Acurite 5 in 1 Pro+
Southern VT
Connecticut

Offline dupreezd

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 512
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #31 on: August 27, 2017, 08:41:14 AM »
Day 2 of heavy rains. Yesterday 7.9"
This is where we are now since midnight.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Davis VP2 6163 | WiFi Logger
CWOP - FW0717
Blitzortung 2100

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2017, 08:51:28 AM »
My brother never did find a rain gauge they were sold out all over his area of town. Tried 4 different stores not even couple Walmarts had one.
Randy

Offline dupreezd

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 512
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2017, 08:59:05 AM »
A friend tried to buy a generator, sold out in a 100 mile radius at all stores. Even the larger, expensive ones.
Davis VP2 6163 | WiFi Logger
CWOP - FW0717
Blitzortung 2100

Offline Farmtalk

  • Fitzweather
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4745
    • WV Waterfalls
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2017, 11:22:55 AM »
CoCoRaHS rainfall totals are really starting to ramp up. The Santa Fe record second from the top picked up 19.3" yesterday.  :-(

Prayers for everybody down in southeast Texas.
Joe Fitzwater
Chief Meteorologist for WVNS-TV 59 in Beckley, WV

Work Page on Facebook -> www.facebook.com/meteojoe
Work Page on Twitter -> https://twitter.com/meteojoe
Waterfalls -> www.wvfalls.com

Offline ocala

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4383
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2017, 04:01:01 PM »
Day 2 of heavy rains. Yesterday 7.9"
This is where we are now since midnight.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Do you have a cocorahs gauge?
The blues had a baby and they named it Rock & Roll

Offline ocala

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4383
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #36 on: August 27, 2017, 04:04:13 PM »
My brother never did find a rain gauge they were sold out all over his area of town. Tried 4 different stores not even couple Walmarts had one.
Should have told him to grab piece of 4" PVC.
Chris did some testing on them a while back and it was pretty close to the coco gauge.
Meaning, pouring out what's in there and measure with the smaller tube.
The blues had a baby and they named it Rock & Roll

Offline SLOweather

  • Global Moderator
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3456
    • Weatherelement Moline IL
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #37 on: August 27, 2017, 06:10:01 PM »
What was the lowest barometer pressure readings recorded as the storm passed over them?

So far, for my cousin in Sugarland SW of Houston, 29.63 in    at 6:08 PM on 24 August 2017. Right now, it's 29.70 in and falling @ 0.02 in/hr, so he might go lower.

His website, http://www.calsage.com/sgweather/index.htm

Offline CW2274

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6731
    • Conditions @ CW2274 West Tucson-Painted Hills Ranch
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #38 on: August 27, 2017, 07:16:16 PM »
What was the lowest barometer pressure readings recorded as the storm passed over them?

So far, for my cousin in Sugarland SW of Houston, 29.63 in    at 6:08 PM on 24 August 2017. Right now, it's 29.70 in and falling @ 0.02 in/hr, so he might go lower.

His website, http://www.calsage.com/sgweather/index.htm
The storm has lost it's intensity, certainly not it's ability to rain prodigiously, so these pressures are very pedestrian. We get that low here in the summer just from the thermal low that's generally over the Yuma area with completely sunny skies, bone dry dews, and hot temps.

Offline waiukuweather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 1072
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #39 on: August 27, 2017, 09:11:12 PM »
the definition of a hurricane (i.e naming what that is forming) is concentric gales around the center (and being warm core)
you can get that in the tropics from a relatively shallow baro reading at the center (e.g 995, where the normal barometer reading around it might be say 1015)

what's its over land, the windspeed needs to drop below hurricane force (average) to be renamed a tropical depression
once it looses its hurricane rainbands wrapped around the center, then it becomes ex tropical (and then transforms into a mid lattitude depression (where rain band arms (one of which is stalled over Houston (which has a problem))
« Last Edit: August 27, 2017, 09:13:21 PM by waiukuweather »

Offline dupreezd

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 512
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #40 on: August 28, 2017, 10:08:53 AM »
Quote
Do you have a cocorahs gauge?
Sadly no, but I have one on order now.   :-)

Although I have been interested in weather for some years, I only recently got more involved.
I started a few years ago with a basic offline La Cross and when it failed, my family banded together and gave me the WS-1200-ip for Christmas. About a month ago I got a TPLink and flashed with Meteobridge. Yep, still a greenhorn.
Davis VP2 6163 | WiFi Logger
CWOP - FW0717
Blitzortung 2100

Offline waiukuweather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 1072
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #41 on: August 28, 2017, 03:03:38 PM »
I see its drifting back over the ocean
could mean it regains some strength
and means more rain..as per forecast for biblical rain totals

Offline dupreezd

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 512
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #42 on: August 28, 2017, 04:04:26 PM »
One weather guy said to put it in perspective for those not familiar with Texas:

"If Harvey came onshore at New York, it would have flooded all the way up to Boston"

Davis VP2 6163 | WiFi Logger
CWOP - FW0717
Blitzortung 2100

Offline waiukuweather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 1072
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #43 on: August 28, 2017, 04:19:04 PM »
what tends to happen is that those big warm gulf water fueled rain bands , create lower pressure and also friction for the rotation (think of conservation of angular momentum)

Offline WeatherHost

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 3649
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #44 on: August 28, 2017, 04:20:07 PM »
Once the clouds begin to clear, I'd be interested in seeing any wide area aerial/satellite photos that might show the flood water boundaries.  Google Earth missed our big record flood by just a few days.  You can still see some high water, but no where near the full extent.  I had close to 2' of water in parts of my property and I'm about a mile from the nearest river and probably 20' above it.




Offline Farmtalk

  • Fitzweather
  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 4745
    • WV Waterfalls
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #45 on: August 28, 2017, 04:36:53 PM »
Rainfall totals are closing in on what I receive in a year (~44")  :shock:
Joe Fitzwater
Chief Meteorologist for WVNS-TV 59 in Beckley, WV

Work Page on Facebook -> www.facebook.com/meteojoe
Work Page on Twitter -> https://twitter.com/meteojoe
Waterfalls -> www.wvfalls.com

Offline CW2274

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6731
    • Conditions @ CW2274 West Tucson-Painted Hills Ranch
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #46 on: August 28, 2017, 04:40:12 PM »
Rainfall totals are closing in on what I receive in a year (~44")  :shock:
One year? Try four here.  :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #47 on: August 28, 2017, 09:32:37 PM »
7am today nearby cocorahs reports next to brother 24.3" in NE houston sub, daughter in League City off HW going to Galveston was 28". This doesn't count today's rain. 
Randy

Offline ValentineWeather

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 6364
    • Valentine Nebraska's Real-Time Weather
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #48 on: August 29, 2017, 10:07:58 AM »
Cocorahs 41.67" near daughters place.

8/29/2017     7:00 AM     TX-HRR-28     Webster 0.4 NW    13.80    
8/28/2017     7:00 AM     TX-HRR-28     Webster 0.4 NW    6.37   
8/27/2017     7:00 AM     TX-HRR-28     Webster 0.4 NW    17.00    
8/26/2017     8:30 AM     TX-HRR-28     Webster 0.4 NW    4.57   
Randy

Offline Glenn

  • Forecaster
  • *****
  • Posts: 418
Re: Hurricane Season 2017
« Reply #49 on: August 29, 2017, 02:59:35 PM »
Just amazing. And I know New Orleans is getting hit with some rain as well as parts of Louisiana.
Acurite 5 in 1 Pro+
Southern VT
Connecticut