I was sitting here tonight and heard what I thought was thunder. Mazzie dog and I looked at each other and so I thought I would check out radar cause I didn’t think we were supposed to have any bad weather or rain for that fact for awhile.

After checking radar, I couldn’t believe there was something just south of us here, so I grab the camera and took probably more pictures than needed, but here are a few shots:

But the weird thing is this started about 845pm and now it’s after 10p and there is still thunder and lightning.. Just crazy… Glad I didn’t water the lawn today

So yesterday morning we had some pretty good storms blow there through.  The unfortunate part was that the storms were moving Southeast and I had drive Northwest.  So the entire drive I was heading into this downpour or rain and high winds.

Although it added about 15 minutes to the commute it wasn’t all that bad.  I like storms, so it didn’t bother me at all.

I actually wish I had my camera or video camera cause it was pretty crazy.  It was pretty light and then a couple minutes later it turned dark as night.  There was so much lightning I thought I was a pop star on the red carpet at one point.  lol

I’m sure most of our storms will not be severe (Tornados and Hail) but you never know.  I think we are supposed to dry out now for a few days..

Tornado Watch #311 was just issued for our area
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0311.html

 Tornado Watch #311 states this:
TORNADOES…HAIL TO 3.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

DISCUSSION…VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH MLCAPES AOA 3000 J/KG AND LITTLE REMAINING INHIBITION ARE IN PLACE AHEAD OF COLD FRONT ACROSS NRN TX/SRN OK.  THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY DURING THE AFTERNOON ALONG/AHEAD OF COLD FRONT AND THE DRY LINE EXTENDING SWD IN NRN TX.  MDT/STG DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELLS INCLUDING THREAT OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES.

Earlier this morning the chance of severe weather was a slight risk and it was upgraded to a moderate risk this afternoon.

Earlier around 6ish they posted a tornado watch #224 for our area. They are talking about Golf Ball size hail, damaging winds and possible tornado or two.

2 counties out there is a tornado warning right now for rotation and there are some reports that there is damage as well. Local media came on and showed the projected path and it’s coming right at us. Might have more hail like we did last Thursday night.

I will keep the blog updated as much as possible…

If your in this area, watch the sky!

UPDATE:
Wow I don’ think I have seen this much Lightning in a really long time.  It was insane.  I hope my video I took worked out.  I have never edited video but I will try and see if I can get something posted..  It was nuts.  We escaped the hail at least so far and the really high winds.

So I have to say that the storms that blew through here the last 2 days were ok I guess.  We did get a lot of rain, I think somewhere around the 3.5″ mark in 24 hours, some other places around here it was over 5″

There were not really any huge or severe thunderstorms as I hoped there would be.  I know it’s early on into the spring storm season, or should I say it really hasn’t started, but was hoping to hear some good thunder and watch some good storm development.

I know that it’s just coming into the season, so hopefully more will be on the way, and would it be too much to ask for some on the weekends so I can chase them?  I might just have to go to Oklahoma this year…