May 14th-15th, 2008 Storm Pictures!

Well, it looks like Blogger isn't going to cooperate with me loading my pictures into this post, so you'll have to go here to check them out. Sorry for the inconvenience! The album has the pictures that got posted in the body of the other post, too.

May 14th-15th, 2008 Cont'd

Yet another view of the carpet of leaves at the office.
This is a skylight in the building we are using for church services. Notice all the cracks where the hail blasted it?
The entire skylight is covered in cracks!
Another view. I'm just hoping all that glass doesn't fall ON someone! Most of the westward-facing windows on the building were broken, too. Overall, at least 100 windows were broken here!











In downtown Austin, one builder reported one of his half-finished buildings had 1,800 windows broken by the hail. OUCH!

I have some videos to post too, but those will come a little later. Does anyone know what kind of software I'd need to go through digital video frame by frame? I took a couple lightning videos and would love to catch a few frames out of those!

Our power went out at approximately 9:45pm and stayed off until around 6am Thursday morning.

Now we'll see if this posts like it's supposed to.....

May 14th-15th, 2008

Wow!
I have a long post to make when we get home later this afternoon. We had some real storms! I have pictures and video, too!

The short version: We had a hook echo (with confirmed funnel cloud) pass literally within about 2 miles of our house. These storms had constant lightning (very common with tornadic storms) and our power was out for 9 hours!

More later!

May 13th, 2008

I think it's going to be a long night!

Radar

May 13th, 2008

Well, today might be interesting! We've already had a bit of rain this morning, and there is a 60% chance for the rest of the day.

We're under the slight risk category, but parts of north TX are under a moderate risk. The risk areas could potentially be re-adjusted through the day, so we'll see what happens!

I mowed the back yard yesterday, so that's a pretty sure guarantee that it will rain. ;) Maybe I should wash the car too. Haha!

Check out the Storm Prediction Center to see the convective outlooks for today and tomorrow.

May 12th, 2008

I realized I made a typo in my last post. The storm was on Saturday, May 10th, not the 11th. That's what happens when I attempt blogging while exhausted! ;)

Anyway, I posted the best of the pictures I took on Saturday evening.
May 10th, 2008 storm pictures

Tomorrow night (Tuesday) has a 70% chance of thunderstorms! In fact we have a chance of rain each day/night this week, through Thursday.

May 12th, 2008

The evening of May 11th, we had a small thunderstorm move by on our south. It didn't affect us at all, except for giving us a few rumbles of thunder. I did get a LOT of good cumulonimbus pictures, though! Areas in and around Austin got a decent amount of hail, some as large as golf balls! Yikes! I guess it's a good thing that storm missed us.

I will post the pictures in an album for viewing later today. Right now I'm so tired I can barely think straight. I've been awake since 6:15am *yesterday* morning. (Choir practice starts at 8:15am before church!)

More rain is forecast for the middle of this week. I'm excited to see what happens!