Craazzee WX in South Texas.
And now we're having beeyooteeful 80-90's temps w/clear dry WX for the next week (and past two days).
The NOAA WFO at EWX (Austin/San Antonio, they're in New Braunfels, TX) just issued a prelim report.
They usually follow up with a detailed one with pics, etc, imagine their investigative team(s) have been busy.
9 tornadoes listed so far.It makes interesting reading, after watching some of the TV coverage showing extensive destruction.
Sunday night, Monday morning it was a huge MCS-400+ mile long front that blew in from the west.
It spawned a bunch of tornadoes and straight-line winds that caused tremendous damage in many places.
I got lucky/dodged a bullet.
The data below (from the prelim report links and MesoNet)
show that NOAA does look at our data feeds, highlighted mine below.
Unfortunately, my comm'l power went out about 10 minutes after the leading edge of the storm. My UPS held the WX computer and uploads going for ~10 minutes longer, but then it too went dark (am I glad I've got a bunch of neat LED lamps w/batt backup).
My last wind gust reading was used in the report (27mph at 11:01PM). there were much stronger winds recorded by my LaCrosse WS-2813 display console, but they weren't uploaded (until much later) due to computer going down:
http://www.weather.gov/ewx/20170219severeFebruary 19-20, 2017 Severe Weather Event
Weather.gov > Austin/San Antonio, TX > February 19-20, 2017 Severe Weather Event
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSEWX&e=201702202003...
...Wilson County...
4 NW Floresville 27 MPH 1101 PM 02/19 29.20N/98.20W 5 ENE Calaveras Lake 26 MPH 1059 PM 02/19 29.32N/98.23W
1 NNW Floresville 23 MPH 1129 PM 02/19 29.15N/98.16W
Observations are collected from a variety of sources with varying
equipment and exposures. Not all data listed are considered official.
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NWS Austin/San Antonio TX
IRIS System
http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?product=&past=1&stn=E7881&unit=0&time=LOCAL&day1=20&month1=02&year1=2017&hour1=127:41 62.0 59.0 60.2 90 3.0 4.0 W 29.50 29.98 1.02 0.00 OK
7:36 61.0 58.0 59.2 90 1.0 4.0 WNW 29.50 29.98 1.02 0.00 OK
23:01 70.0 63.2 65.5 79 11.0 27.0 W 29.49 29.97 0.25 0.25 OK 22:56 72.0 64.4 66.9 77 23.0 27.0 W 29.48 29.96 0.05 0.05 OK
22:51 72.0 66.9 68.5 84 6.0 10.0 WNW 29.43 29.91 0.02 0.02 OK
22:46 72.0 66.9 68.5 84 1.0 4.0 SE 29.41 29.89 0.00 0.00 OK
22:41 72.0 66.9 68.5 84 3.0 6.0 SE 29.41 29.89 0.00 0.00 OK