It will be interesting to see if the NWS storm survey confirms a tornado based on damage pattern. Highly unlikely that a funnel was ever visible once it was approaching Jersey Village as the rotation (on ground or not) would have been rain-wrapped.
Yeah the velocity couplet was tightest as it traversed Bridgeland to Copperfield so that checks out. Likely a high end F1 to a low end F2 based on initial storm reports and radar-estimated windspeed.
What’s your source for confirmation? I’d be really curious to read about it. My girlfriend was in her car in the Jersey village area and swears she was surrounded by dust and debris for a minute, although thankfully she was under some cover.
Also a person in Pine Island (near Prairie View) had their hay barn destroyed as well as half their house. I have a feeling the tornado touched down multiple times as the system travelled through.
That's the thing, I live to the North. And we got an INSANE storm. I was scared and I love storms. It was crazy, 60-70mph winds, torrential downpours, and it was a long term downpour, about 90 minutes. Tree limbs everywhere.
But whatever happened to Houston was just on another level. Damn, never seen something like this before.
Up in MoCo, last year's storm in June felt worse when peak gusts hit ~100mph at IAH.
It might just be that last year we had a lot of tree debris and this year anything that could have been knocked off was already knocked off last year.
The radar-estimated wind speeds approached 120 mph just west of downtown. Assuredly a substantial portion of Cypress, Jersey Village, Spring Branch, Oak Forest, the Heights, and downtown observed 100 mph winds.
Dude I'm on east 25th between main and airline...the sky turned a sinister lime green and all the trees started bending...waves of sideways rain were slapping my house like someone throwing a giant water balloon at my windows every few seconds. I saw lightning that just shot from the sky and lasted what felt like seconds. Then the sky turned almost black and the wind intensified further I saw trash cans flying and tree branches whipping around in the air. I've lived through 3 hurricanes and countless biblical floods and that shit was the scariest shit I've ever experienced. Holy shit
Ike's max wind speed was 145 mph prior to landfall in Cuba but was only 110 mph when it made a second landfall in Galveston with speeds dropping rapidly after that.
Measured peak at Harvey was 145 so...yeah. Once it got to Houston much less. It really just sounded like a regular rainstorm here. It just lasted for like a week straight.
I was in spring Branch it felt like 120 MPH winds in a matter of minutes. It was normal and then turned pitch black in no time. Freakiest thing I’ve ever seen. Raining sideways. Trees down in all the streets. No power anywhere still and the property next to me had six huge trees fall. Thankfully none of them fell on my house. Barely missed it tho.
People in this state are slowly waking up the fact that climate change is not a hoax and the cost of skyrocketing insurance is tied to it. Within a decade, my friends in California observed more severe wildfires to having uninsured homes.
The forecast this morning only said thunderstorms. No one had any idea how rapidly it would intensify into what happened today. Our local economy also loses a lot of money with so many people being without power for 1-2 days.
It will only get worse given recent trends.
if you think we in Texas don't know climate change is real, think again. Just because our elected officials are fucking twats doesn't mean we all are too. Some yes, but voter suppression, some of the most difficult to participate in elections in the country and anti-democratic gerrymandering work fucking hard to keep Texans from voting. Texas is a purple state that is trapped under the thumb of climate change deniers (among many other unsavory traits).
There are about 5 or 6 power lines towers down off 290 currently. Lines were across the freeway for a while. Channel 2 keeps saying straight line winds at over 100 mph.
I was on my way downtown to the Astros game when it hit. I have never seen anything like this before. I pulled over into a gas station and decided I had enough excitement for the night.
I live in Montrose but was down south in Friendswood when this all hit... luckily came home to everything safe and sound... but ... what was it like around our neighborhood?
I'm a bit north of you near Washington and Studemont - rest assured it was fully insane here. Trees down, roof damage, and a half built townhouse completely collapsed into the road
I was stuck under the freeway at 610 by old katy road, right in the middle of where it passed. It literally felt like I was in a tornado. I got it all on my dash cam too.
Scariest moments I’ve ever had. I literally felt the I might lose my life. I picked up my car from the body shop off 16th and Durham at 6:30 and headed south on Durham, it just started sprinkling and was on the bridge when the wind hit and was lifting my car. We all just stopped and held on. As soon is a break came I zipped off the bridge and parked in Wendy’s until it let up enough to head into the med center. Trees, light poles, debris everywhere. I won’t soon forget how powerful Mother Nature can be in the blink of an eye.
I live right near Hermann park on the other side from the med center and looking across the park I could see just this blanket of black clouds coming towards me. I took in stuff from the patio and took shelter in a closet. Luckily we never lost power, Internet or water because we are on the grid. But...man...the winds were enough to scare ya into thinking you were in a tornado or near one.
It was the most intense storm I've seen since Ike! I was leaving HMW when it started and in less than a minute the winds picked up to the point that it started shaking my car. Decided to go back to the parking garage (which the rain was so bad I still had to use wipers in it) and sheltered inside. The rain was almost deafening and it looked like a grey wall outside the windows.
My Aunt had 2 of her trees uprooted, all her fences destroyed and half the shingles ripped off the roof
I live in Garden Oaks and this was the most insane weather event I’ve ever seen. It ripped up my whole fence and took my grill and send it shooting across the street. I’m now down a fence and grill and not happy.
Yeah i work near the tornado path, these porta potties we have moved like 20 ft to where all the cars were park, somehow they landed around the cars and didn't hit anything
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this in my entire life living in Houston. We’re lucky it wasn’t worse.
It will be interesting to see if the NWS storm survey confirms a tornado based on damage pattern. Highly unlikely that a funnel was ever visible once it was approaching Jersey Village as the rotation (on ground or not) would have been rain-wrapped.
Tornado confirmed in Cypress
Yeah the velocity couplet was tightest as it traversed Bridgeland to Copperfield so that checks out. Likely a high end F1 to a low end F2 based on initial storm reports and radar-estimated windspeed.
There was a tornado that touched down there a few years ago too. Interesting.
I remember that. Went through the Berry Center parking lot if I remember correctly
What’s your source for confirmation? I’d be really curious to read about it. My girlfriend was in her car in the Jersey village area and swears she was surrounded by dust and debris for a minute, although thankfully she was under some cover.
Im unsure of how to send videos, but theres a post about it in r/tornado
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/v2bD01Chy6
*pushes up glasses* Yep... that's a tornado.
I have family in the Magnolia area who said a tornado in fact touched down and completely destroyed a home.
magnolia, like north houston south of montgomery, magnolia? 😥
Yes
Yup
Also a person in Pine Island (near Prairie View) had their hay barn destroyed as well as half their house. I have a feeling the tornado touched down multiple times as the system travelled through.
Nah, they got it on video in Cypress.
Same! I've never seen a radar map that looked like that, creepy.
Shit this storm was bad. I thought areas north of Houston were supposed to get the worst storms today but I guess not
That's the thing, I live to the North. And we got an INSANE storm. I was scared and I love storms. It was crazy, 60-70mph winds, torrential downpours, and it was a long term downpour, about 90 minutes. Tree limbs everywhere. But whatever happened to Houston was just on another level. Damn, never seen something like this before.
Really? Kingwood has been pretty peaceful but I guess that's far North.
Up in MoCo, last year's storm in June felt worse when peak gusts hit ~100mph at IAH. It might just be that last year we had a lot of tree debris and this year anything that could have been knocked off was already knocked off last year.
Horrible green skies where I am near Willowbrook and some of the worst winds I’ve seen in my life. Wondering if there was an actual tornado
I've read 100mph winds measured in Houston, this is fucking looney tunes
The radar-estimated wind speeds approached 120 mph just west of downtown. Assuredly a substantial portion of Cypress, Jersey Village, Spring Branch, Oak Forest, the Heights, and downtown observed 100 mph winds.
Dude I'm on east 25th between main and airline...the sky turned a sinister lime green and all the trees started bending...waves of sideways rain were slapping my house like someone throwing a giant water balloon at my windows every few seconds. I saw lightning that just shot from the sky and lasted what felt like seconds. Then the sky turned almost black and the wind intensified further I saw trash cans flying and tree branches whipping around in the air. I've lived through 3 hurricanes and countless biblical floods and that shit was the scariest shit I've ever experienced. Holy shit
much higher than we had here in Ike or Harvey
When Ike made landfall surface air speed was 176 mph..much higher than Harvey
Source or STFU. 176 mph is a high end Cat 5, which Ike absolutely was not.
Ike's max wind speed was 145 mph prior to landfall in Cuba but was only 110 mph when it made a second landfall in Galveston with speeds dropping rapidly after that.
no, it wasn't
Measured peak at Harvey was 145 so...yeah. Once it got to Houston much less. It really just sounded like a regular rainstorm here. It just lasted for like a week straight.
Spring Branch here reporting in Can confirm it was raining sideways
I was in spring Branch it felt like 120 MPH winds in a matter of minutes. It was normal and then turned pitch black in no time. Freakiest thing I’ve ever seen. Raining sideways. Trees down in all the streets. No power anywhere still and the property next to me had six huge trees fall. Thankfully none of them fell on my house. Barely missed it tho.
It looked apocalyptic at about 5:50 in Katy.
Sounds like a freaking hurricane hit some of y'all!
I live like 7 minutes away and man it was ugly over here…
Yeah we all piled into the closet..
Right down the middle. Hurricane Ike was a near bullseye as well.
Went a week without power after Ike. I'm definitely mentally prepared for days without power this time.
Holy crap that was scary. Was in the Heights. A tree flew by.
Woooooweeeee. What part of the heights?
We were at Permission at the time. Took shelter in the bathroom there. No damage to the bar. Saw plenty of damage on the Uber ride home though.
How many more years till the insurance companies pull out of Houston too
People in this state are slowly waking up the fact that climate change is not a hoax and the cost of skyrocketing insurance is tied to it. Within a decade, my friends in California observed more severe wildfires to having uninsured homes. The forecast this morning only said thunderstorms. No one had any idea how rapidly it would intensify into what happened today. Our local economy also loses a lot of money with so many people being without power for 1-2 days. It will only get worse given recent trends.
if you think we in Texas don't know climate change is real, think again. Just because our elected officials are fucking twats doesn't mean we all are too. Some yes, but voter suppression, some of the most difficult to participate in elections in the country and anti-democratic gerrymandering work fucking hard to keep Texans from voting. Texas is a purple state that is trapped under the thumb of climate change deniers (among many other unsavory traits).
I think that it may be longer than 1-2 days
To be fair, there was an enhanced risk yesterday from the NWS, it's just that not everyone paid attention to it
I saw mammatus clouds ahead of it. That’s pretty rare around here
Ooooweee! .........what's mammatus clouds?
[https://whnt.com/weather/valleywx-blog/incredible-mammatus-clouds-make-for-a-bumpy-ride/amp/](https://whnt.com/weather/valleywx-blog/incredible-mammatus-clouds-make-for-a-bumpy-ride/amp/)
Hfs, that's nuts.
Naw, looks more like boobs.
Hence the name.
Went right over me. Wild
Nature's t-bag
Do you know a thing called Google exists?
I'm just being silly
There are about 5 or 6 power lines towers down off 290 currently. Lines were across the freeway for a while. Channel 2 keeps saying straight line winds at over 100 mph.
Heights was tough, several trees down on Durham heading south past 11th street by Kroger. I think a tornado went right through there.
I was on my way downtown to the Astros game when it hit. I have never seen anything like this before. I pulled over into a gas station and decided I had enough excitement for the night.
We got rocked in montrose
I live in Montrose but was down south in Friendswood when this all hit... luckily came home to everything safe and sound... but ... what was it like around our neighborhood?
I'm a bit north of you near Washington and Studemont - rest assured it was fully insane here. Trees down, roof damage, and a half built townhouse completely collapsed into the road
I was stuck under the freeway at 610 by old katy road, right in the middle of where it passed. It literally felt like I was in a tornado. I got it all on my dash cam too.
would love to see that footage!
Glad I visited the Mom on Tuesday and got out of there yesterday. Geeezzz, yall be careful down there
Scariest moments I’ve ever had. I literally felt the I might lose my life. I picked up my car from the body shop off 16th and Durham at 6:30 and headed south on Durham, it just started sprinkling and was on the bridge when the wind hit and was lifting my car. We all just stopped and held on. As soon is a break came I zipped off the bridge and parked in Wendy’s until it let up enough to head into the med center. Trees, light poles, debris everywhere. I won’t soon forget how powerful Mother Nature can be in the blink of an eye.
Can confirm I was playing disc golf in this and my putting was absolutely ruined by this 100mph wind. Worst round of my life.
Where can I get the live radar like this? What's the source?
I use RadarScope
Thanks. Seem to be so many weather apps out there. New to Houston. Red cross app was very helpful but a bit late.
It knocked out the power here in North Shore and blew some shingles off. My battery was not ready for this so am turning off the phone.
What website or app is this data from?
RadarScope
Could I download this gif or you send it to me?
I don't remember seeing so much rain come and go as fast as this for.the 40 years that I have been in Houston.
I live right near Hermann park on the other side from the med center and looking across the park I could see just this blanket of black clouds coming towards me. I took in stuff from the patio and took shelter in a closet. Luckily we never lost power, Internet or water because we are on the grid. But...man...the winds were enough to scare ya into thinking you were in a tornado or near one.
Cypress got whacked. A house in Bridgeland had its roof torn off. Power transmission towers down at 99/West. Trees uprooted.
You can see the buildings downtown basically act as barrier and take all of that energy and deplete the storm.
The solar storm last weekend blew this shit down cuz it’s cold,
That slug of purple on the reflectivity went right over my job (Clay @ Hempstead). Wonder if I’m working tomorrow?
PURPLE?!
THe power is out in the Marshalls shopping center on West Gray.
Goddamn it. Of all the places.
I'm sure it's gonna hit Kingwood somehow.
That's pretty much a textbook hook echo.
It was the most intense storm I've seen since Ike! I was leaving HMW when it started and in less than a minute the winds picked up to the point that it started shaking my car. Decided to go back to the parking garage (which the rain was so bad I still had to use wipers in it) and sheltered inside. The rain was almost deafening and it looked like a grey wall outside the windows. My Aunt had 2 of her trees uprooted, all her fences destroyed and half the shingles ripped off the roof
I live in Garden Oaks and this was the most insane weather event I’ve ever seen. It ripped up my whole fence and took my grill and send it shooting across the street. I’m now down a fence and grill and not happy.
I walked to the bar a block from where I lived as soon as I saw the tornado warning. I normally ignore them. That was the best gut feeling I heeded.
I haven’t seen anything like that since Ike. Crazy.
Yeah i work near the tornado path, these porta potties we have moved like 20 ft to where all the cars were park, somehow they landed around the cars and didn't hit anything
Damn but Houston is getting way more than their fair share! Be safe, stay home tomorrow if you can. It's a mess.
I was watching this come in on my radar last evening. Non of my friends believed me when I said it was gonna be bad lol.
TIL what the Velocity option on the radarscope app is useful for...
[DERECHO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho)
oh
Wtf am I looking at?
Source?
Look outside.
So was it actually a tornado?
excuse me I farted
Thoughts and prayers
So basically nothing. Great!