SE Texas Severe WX Awareness Week/Feb 28th -Mar 5th

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Our National Weather Service office for SE Texas has set Severe Weather Awareness Week as February 28th through March 5th. We as the KHOU Weather Forum in partnership with the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center and NOAA are going to provide as much educational information to protect your family and friends for all types of Weather Emergencies. This includes our Disabled Community where we on our Forum as well as the Local, State and Federal Weather Authorities are working very diligently to educated EVERYONE to have plans when Weather Worries strike our Community, as they surely will. In the days ahead we will have many informative and educational information to share and we encourage YOU to share your personal experiences as to what your plans are, when Weather... be it Severe, Hurricanes, Floods or Wintry come our way.
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Speaking of severe weather, this may interest folks...especially those in flood zones.

http://www.texastribune.org/events/2016 ... -big-storm
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jcarr wrote:Speaking of severe weather, this may interest folks...especially those in flood zones.

http://www.texastribune.org/events/2016 ... -big-storm
How do you have a discussion of hurricane impacts with a panel of non-meteorologists.

It certainly does not take a TC to cause flooding in this region. Of all the homes that flooded in Harris County in 2015, none were from TS Bill. Between 3000-6000 flooded on Memorial Day and about 300 on Halloween and none (maybe a few) on Oct. 24-25 even thought Oct 24-25 produced the largest 24-48 hour rainfall amounts. I am presenting a paper on the Memorial Day storm in the next two weeks at TFMA and compare the rainfall rates and locations of the 3 "floods" in 2015. Some of the numbers were interesting with respect to rainfall duration and impacts. Memorial day produced nearly all the rainfall in the first 3-hrs of the event...up to 10 inches over highly urban areas...whereas Oct. 24-25 was more steady over time with overall higher totals,, but for the most part drainage systems were able to keep up with the rates. Halloween was almost in the middle of both events, but closer to Memorial Day with the high short term rates, but was focused in more rural areas of eastern Harris and western Liberty Counties.
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Jeff,
I hope you can post a link to your paper, plus whatever could or should be done to lessen the effects of excess rain. Thanks for being involved, too.
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jeff wrote:
jcarr wrote:Speaking of severe weather, this may interest folks...especially those in flood zones.

http://www.texastribune.org/events/2016 ... -big-storm
How do you have a discussion of hurricane impacts with a panel of non-meteorologists.

from the link jcarr posted, "...a discussion on how the region is at risk, what is being proposed to protect against those risks and what must be done to move a consensus approach forward" and "Community members will be invited to interact and engage with the project, launching March 3, which will include a mapping feature to explore the potential impact of such a storm at any location within the ship channel region."

fortunately, you don't need to be a meteorologist to have that discussion or most of us would not be here. ;)

sounds like an important discussion - one that will be livestreamed March 3, 6:30 pm & have a video available after that - thanks for the link jcarr !
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Spring Weather Safety Campaign Kickoff
February 28 - March 5, 2016

When it comes to severe weather events, the key to successful response - and survival - is preparedness. Every year, the National Weather Service (NWS), local officials and emergency managers throughout Southeast Texas work together to promote severe weather preparedness. The figure below shows fatality statistics for various weather hazards for the United States. You can see flooding, tornadoes, lightning, heat and rip currents are all significant hazards and it is important to understand how to be prepared for each.
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During this week when we kickoff the National Weather Service Spring weather safety campaign, we will highlight various aspects of severe weather that commonly may occur during spring months. Topics will include types of thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail, microbursts, flash flooding, lightning, beach safety and family preparedness. Newspapers, broadcast media, safety organizations, and other local government officials are encouraged to work with their communities to disseminate severe weather awareness information to prepare them for the upcoming severe weather season.

This website is designed to serve as a guide to the dangers of severe weather and its impacts on southeast Texas, and to serve as a guide to community groups around southeast Texas. This website includes information on what safety precautions to take when dealing with various severe weather threats including flash flooding, tornadoes, hail, high winds and lightning. It also includes important information on a mock tornado drill planned for March 2nd, 2016 at 10 AM, which will be an opportunity to test tornado emergency plans at schools and businesses.

For additional preparedness information, please refer to the Severe Weather Awareness pages below.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/severeweather/index.shtml

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/Threat ... severe.htm
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jcarr wrote:Speaking of severe weather, this may interest folks...especially those in flood zones.

http://www.texastribune.org/events/2016 ... -big-storm
the event/video is archived for anyone interested: http://livestream.com/texastribune/even ... /114208207

part of their "Hell and High Water" project, co-published by Texas Tribune and ProPublica
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from the text version: It’s already been eight years since Ike and Houston gets hit by a major storm every 15 years on average.

they cite this: http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/txhur.pdf

but, the NOAA page for return periods of major hurricanes differs by quite a bit
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/images/return_mjrhurr.jpg

anyone know why? I'm puzzled
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From the standpoint of the being severe weather aware, I am asking for an understanding for what causes a lot of rain to fall in absence of the sun to trigger severe rain and thunderstorms. I imagine there's a lift component to lift the air in the absence of a cap on the atmosphere and I'm sure the Gulf provides the moisture. But what is the spark plug that provides combustion to occur? Thanks.
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