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4 hours ago, Hate said:

Shit got real in The Woodlands. We lost power for about 30 minutes, but fortunately it came back in. When we do lose power it’s usually for at least 3 hours.

 

2 hours ago, Telegraph_it said:

Damn. We’ve been without power in creek side for three plus hours now. 

No power loss in 77382/Sterling Ridge (so far).  Rain's been alternating between light drizzle and blue blazes since mid-afternoon.

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Reports of ping pong ball size hail in Boerne.

Pea size in north central SA.

12 minutes ago, Heisenberg said:

 

No power loss in 77382/Sterling Ridge (so far).  Rain's been alternating between light drizzle and blue blazes since mid-afternoon.

Still no power. I drove over to Kuykendahl and some poor Centerpoint guy is working with the lighting show going on. 

3 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

300,000 people lost power today in houston

Ballgame.

Apparently the roof on the Dixie Sheep’n collapsed 
Whoop.

New tradition!

11 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

They just ran out of rafters

They run out of engineering, often 

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26 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Apparently the roof on the Dixie Sheep’n collapsed 

Did they put the outhouse and jizz jar up there?

In San Antonio

 

 

My parents live near the airport and they didn't get anything. Parent's friends in Rogers Ranch and Churchill Estates got a ton of hail tonight.

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1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

They run out of engineering, often 

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All Hail Reports near Waco, Texas in 2020

Waco 2020 Hail Summary

Waco, Texas (population: 124805) had 5 hail reports within 10 miles of the city center located at (31.54933, -97.14667) in 2020. The largest report of hail in 2020 near Waco was 2.50 inches about 12 hours ago. The zipcode with the highest number of damaging hail reports near Waco in 2020 is 76712, with 2 reports.

Where's my Wacko people?  I need to go up there next week to get some Dodge parts & would like to swing by to visit with some of y'all.

3 hours ago, miguelito said:

Reports of ping pong ball size hail in Boerne.

Pea size in north central SA.

Boerne is well within our range; have done work further S than that.

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Still no power. I drove over to Kuykendahl and some poor Centerpoint guy is working with the lighting show going on. 

If it makes you feel any better, we lost power about 10 and still don’t have it back on.
5 hours ago, Telegraph_it said:

Still no power. I drove over to Kuykendahl and some poor Centerpoint guy is working with the lighting show going on. 

 

36 minutes ago, Hate said:


If it makes you feel any better, we lost power about 10 and still don’t have it back on.

We're on Entergy up here.  They used to be less reliable (more and longer outages) than they've been the last several years.  I noticed Entergy was out from North Conroe to South Huntsville along I-45 earlier -  4,000 homes out.

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It finally came on just now. The weird thing was that the second round of storms was nothing really. There were a few pretty good lightning strikes, but no wind at all. Weird.

6 hours ago, miguelito said:

Reports of ping pong ball size hail in Boerne.

Pea size in north central SA.

I live in Shavano Park and got ping pong ball size hail at the beginning.

5 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

I live in Georgetown and we definitely got it. Lots of hail 

Did the hail do much damage in G-town?

2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Did the hail do much damage in G-town?

I got egg sized hail here in Georgetown.  Since my car is the oldest it didn't get put in the garage.  I need a new windshield and it looks like a golf ball.  I'm surprised I didn't lose any windows on the house as loud as it was.

 

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Still a chance for some severe weather today according to the SPC.

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...TX near Rio Grande...
   Widely scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop today over
   the western and northern parts of the outlook area.  Thunderstorms
   regionally will be forced by a combination of lift from surface
   heating, the southward-moving baroclinic zone, and orographic
   forcing over the Big Bend region and northern Coahuila.  Additional
   convection is possible this evening farther east as the frontal zone
   impinges on richer inflow-layer moisture.  Large hail and severe
   gusts will be the main concerns.

   Height rises are expected as the Ozarks cyclone/trough weaken and
   move away from the area.  Nonetheless, associated northwesterly flow
   aloft and strong directional shear will persist, despite weak
   low-level winds.  This will contribute to 30-40-kt effective-shear
   magnitudes, though the lack of more robust low-level flow will limit
   hodograph size.  Steep midlevel lapse rates, along with some
   moisture return through an air mass affected by prior days'
   convective complexes, will combine to yield MLCAPE in the 2000-3000
   J/kg range across much of this region.  More-robust moisture return
   is probable this evening over south-central TX and the lower Rio
   Grande Valley, which will be available to any convection that can
   develop anew along the combined frontal zone, or evolve upscale from
   diurnally initiated convection from Coahuila.  That contingency
   appears increasingly probable based on more-recent guidance and the
   observational trends in the lower Rio Grande Valley, so the outlook
   has been expanded on the east side.
5 hours ago, Hate said:

It finally came on just now. The weird thing was that the second round of storms was nothing really. There were a few pretty good lightning strikes, but no wind at all. Weird.

Lightning hit a power junction and a fire started. We heard the 4 loud bangs from the big breakers in the distance like artillery at ft. sam.  

Yeah, still "officially" a chance but i doubt it very much.  The low's moving off, we've had the atmosphere stabilized a good bit from last night, and the bulk of the risk area is well NE of us.

Jinxed it?  I don't think so.

We were lucky around here last night.  The storms that rolled through Austin about 7 had calmed down a good bit.  Then they fired up again down  near Luling and caused some wind and hail damage.

I reconfigured the garage back to its normal useful self, so my truck no longer fits. Had barely gotten both cars in the last 4 days due to the hail chances. Think I may go give the truck a wash too. #Fucktheforcefield

The vehicle my employees use to get around was parked outside in NW Georgetown and both the front and back windshields are gone and it is likely a total loss. It's less than a year old and has maybe 1200 miles on it. Our building must be near where Monty is because the hail was about the same size.

Looks like storms are firing up again in The Big Country and dive bombing southeastward.  Out where dreams stay with you, like a lover's voice fires the mountainside.

Stay alive.

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5 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Why does Houston's power grid suck so badly? Lack of organized happy hours?

You'd think it would be robust after all of the storms/hurricans they've had, but then again, it maybe pretty patchwork because of all of the storms/hurricanes they've had.

Plus, a lot of their stuff is above-ground.  That does not help at all.

35 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Looks like storms are firing up again in The Big Country and dive bombing southeastward.  Out where dreams stay with you, like a lover's voice fires the mountainside.

Stay alive.

Fredericksburg and Kerrville looking ripe.  

1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

Looks like storms are firing up again in The Big Country and dive bombing southeastward.  Out where dreams stay with you, like a lover's voice fires the mountainside.

Stay alive.

Are you expecting to grow flowers in the desert?

Yep, these storms are actually in the forecast area (west of us and a lot of SW too).  Looks like they'll swipe west of Austin, thankfully.  Watching for buildup but so far mostly out west.
That's a NASTY storm going west of Fredericksburg.

Just now, Hornius Emeritus said:

Looks like New Braunfels and San Antonio are going to get plowed again.

Well then, so am I, in their memory.

3 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Looks like New Braunfels and San Antonio are going to get plowed again.

Well then, so will your mom, in their memory.

1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Well then, so will your mom, in their memory.

 

Touche'

Well done. Username seems appropriate etc... 

Looks like the whole complex is weakening some compared to earlier.

Why does Houston's power grid suck so badly? Lack of organized happy hours?
Sign number 483742 from god that humans really weren't supposed to live there. Nevertheless...
3 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Looks like storms are firing up again in The Big Country and dive bombing southeastward.  Out where dreams stay with you, like a lover's voice fires the mountainside.

Stay alive.

Define "The Big Country"

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