Tropical Depression Two Along South Texas Coast
Hello everybody, this is Senior Meteorologist Shaun Tanner writing Dr. Masters' blog while he is on vacation.
Tropical Depression Two formed overnight in the northern Bay of Campeche and is now making landfall along the extreme south coast of Texas. A hurricane hunter was sent into the system and found a low-level circulation. While there are some reports of tropical storm strength winds in the squalls of the system, there is just not enough evidence to upgrade the storm to tropical storm strength before landfall.
The satellite representation of the depression is quite impressive as half of the depression is now over landfall. Brownsville radar currently is showing the effects of the depression with heavy rain and thunderstorms through much of southern Texas.
The biggest lingering effect from the depression will be to prolong the devastating flooding that has been ongoing in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Not including the rain that will fall due to the depression, over the past 7 days, the area near Houston has received over 10 inches of rain, while some inland areas of Texas has received over 4 inches of rain. The problem gets worse in the Mexican state of Coahuila near the Texas border has received upwards of 20 inches of rain in the past 7 days due to substantial moisture pouring into the area.
This surging watershed has caused massive flooding throughout the region, with the area near Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico being the hardest hit. The flooding has caused the major border crossing between those two cities to be closed as the Rio Grande surged and threatened to top the crossing's bridge. A contingent of Mexican officials, including the mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, touring the flooding damage in an airplane crashed Wednesday, killing all six onboard. Evacuations on both sides of the border has forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes, while over 100,000 people were without water service. The flooding problem is extra dangerous because swollen dams had to release some of their water downstream into areas that towns that have already been swamped. It was even reported that one of these releases by the National Water Commission of Mexico was the largest emergency water release in the country.
Needless to say, the rain from Tropical Depression Two will only further the flooding problems in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Figure 3 shows the severe map and the greens represent Flood Watches and Warnings. You can see almost the entire states of Texas and Oklahoma are under these watches and warnings in anticipation of several inches of rain from the remnants of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 1. Satellite loop of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 2. Storm-centered radar as depression makes landfall.
Figure 3. Severe map.
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Downloaded it into my computer. It is even faster than Firefox 3.3.6 :o)!!
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 2010
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON
TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO...LOCATED INLAND OVER NORTHEASTERN MEXICO
ABOUT 90 MILES WEST OF LAREDO TEXAS. THESE ADVISORIES CAN BE
FOUND UNDER AWIPS HEADER TCPAT2 AND WMO HEADER WTNT32 KWNH.
A TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA
IS PRODUCING A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES
WESTWARD AT AROUND 20 MPH. WHILE TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT
EXPECTED BEFORE THIS SYSTEM REACHES CENTRAL AMERICA...HEAVY
RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF
HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA. THERE IS A LOW CHANCE...NEAR 0 PERCENT...OF
THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SYSTEM...PLEASE REFER TO
PRODUCTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
$$
FORECASTER BRENNAN
Central America and Mexico's year so far and extreme southern Texas...
I have an announcement.
JFV IS WORSE THAN GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
Now, this is not because he is such a terrible troll.... no, this is because SOME PPLE IN THE BLOG CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM!!!! What, has he got u guys hypnotized, that you have to make a full day's blog be focused on him? Most of us wouldn't even know this guy even EXISTED .... if u didn't talk about him so much!!!
I'm at the point where, not only am I minusing anybody trolling as JFV or anybody else, I'm inclined to minus all the pple simply talking about him!
Reminder: this is a blog about WEATHER, specifically tropical weather, and issues related thereto... NOT about people and personas and personalities....
EDIT:
PS. Sorry folks, it was just really annoying to come back to the blog hours later only to find that the one enduring topic of conversation was a troll....
That's about it through July 25th.
I wouldn't particularly believe the parallel GFS. Even though it got an upgrade, its upgrade greatly reduced the convective feedback, so now it doesn't develop much, if any, storms. It didn't develop Alex or TD #2 as far as I'm aware of.
I'm not joking...it is similar to 2007, so far.
This place is the roughest place in town sometimes...like a Tin Pan Alley RIP SRV
July 9, 2010 - 7:55 PM EDT - Tropics Quiet; Enjoy While It Lasts
Looks like this one is headed marou's and Weather456's way...
And some remarkable cold tops with the Twave heading into Central America... lucky this isn't moving Nward with time to traverse the warm waters west of JA....
nice...
Perhaps their idea is to let all of us know that they DID look at it and that they still think it is not going to develop...it may well be a method to silence criticism that they are not looking at enough invests..this way they say "hey, we saw it..but it's a no go" or no grow...LOL
Or if by some outside chance or phenomena they can say well we circled it anyway LMAO! oH well 6 of one, half dozen of the next.
24HR loop EUMETSAT. The train kept a rollin all night long. But the first wave is very impressive.
EUMETSAT Air Mass
LOL too true...it is still a PR related office they run...
I agree, I was actually looking for Gilbert pictures after I read that comment XD
I disagree.. it goes to Isabel. Even better this is was when Isabel was out to sea bothering no one.. yet. The hour IIRC when this picture was taken I was in a Gas line for that storm in VA.
Lucky that phase doesn't last long with me...
I love that Invest..it did no harm!
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