[HCARC] Severe Thunderstorm!!!

[John Canfield]

2.23 inches here (~5 miles west of Harper), peak wind gust was 30.0 MPH 
at 2132 hours local. My wind instruments are sited very well - about 26' 
off the ground on my shop roof and totally in the clear so that's a 
fairly accurate wind assessment.

We got lucky with no hail and the usual 25-30 winds.  I looked at 
yesterday's radar loop (Weather Underground) and we had a large bright 
red splotch go directly over us but the bright pink (greater intensity 
return) was just a little south of us thankfully.

Unfortunately I don't know what our peak rain rate was since we stopped 
uploading last night due to no Internet, but it must have been a rain 
dump!  (There's a script in a cron job on my weather server that's 
supposed to backfill the missing data on Weather Underground every day 
at 0000 hours so hope that works.)

John
WB5THT


On 5/18/2016 12:13 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote:
> Fortunately, we were spared the hail.  3 weeks ago we had hail, and it was the oddest looking hail I have seen – the pieces were crystal clear ice as opposed to whitish ice.  That was the night that San Antonio has the baseball sized hail from the same storm.
>
> Gary J
> N5BAA
>
> From: galeheise at windstream.net
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:31 AM
> To: Gary J - N5BAA
> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Severe Thunderstorm!!!
>
> Gary-
>
>    At our QTH we had 3 inches.  One piece of hail was the size of a quarter but the amount of hail wasn’t overbearing.
>
>    The fruit trees and garden didn’t suffer much damage.  We feel very fortunate it wasn’t worse.
>
> Gale
>
> From: Gary J - N5BAA
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:26 AM
> To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net ; John Canfield
> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Severe Thunderstorm!!!
>
> When I made my Skywarn report to NWS they said that they had clocked reports
> of 70 mph plus straight line winds.  My neighbor lost more roof off of his
> barn and about 5 big trees down.  The wind was so hard it was blowing water
> up my metal roof and pouring it in through the openings in my continuous
> ridge vent and blowing it in through my soffits.  I also lost three 10 foot
> roof panels on my porch roof.  WHEN it dries up I am going to have to get on
> the roof and look at the caulking around the ridge vent.  This is the second
> time since we moved here in 1998 this has happened - first time was several
> weeks ago, but not close to the amount of water this time.  Rain total was
> over 2 1/2 inches in about 20-30 minutes time.
>
> 73
>
> Gary J
> N5BAA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Canfield
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:58 AM
> To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Severe Thunderstorm!!!
>
> Wow!  Our wireless Internet service was knocked out last night about
> 2100 hours local, Bee Creek will no doubt be running around the area
> today replacing toasted access points.
>
> John
> WB5THT
>
>
> On 5/17/2016 11:58 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>> Wind and rain at my QTH hard enough to blow water in through my soffits
>> and up under and in through my continuous ridge vents on the North –
>> northwest side of my house.  This is the second time this has happened –
>> all in the last 3 weeks.  You can guess what my jobs are tomorrow.  This
>> is getting rediculous – maybe time to move to Panama after all!!
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Gary J
>> N5BAA
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