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Tornado Warning for Brazoria/Matagorda

Tornado Warning coming for Galveston Island shortly

Now that Harvey is a Cat 3, does that mean we will see higher chances of stronger winds our way? I knew that areas of Houston could have possible power outages, but now Mets hear are talking about possible outages here in Beaumont. Is it because of the Cat 3 and wind radius?

Update from Jeff:

Life threatening hurricane event approaching the TX coast

All preparations should be completed along the coast and tropical storm force winds are reaching the coast

USAF mission and CRP radar indicates that Harvey has become a 120mph category 3 hurricane.

Peak flight level winds of 118kts and surface winds of 98kts were recorded by the plane along with a surface pressure of 944mb.

Tornado Watch is in effect for much of SE TX

Peak Wind Gusts:

CRP Naval Air Station: 65

Rockport: 55

Port O Connor: 53

Galveston: 55

Buoy 42020 ESE of CRP is gusting to 69 with 24 foot seas.

Conditions along the entire middle and upper TX coast will continue to worsen this afternoon and evening and hurricane force winds will reach the coast between CRP and Matagorda by evening to mid evening.

A life threatening storm surge of 8-12 feet above the ground along the coast from Mustang Island to Matagorda is starting to move onto the coast. Storm surge flooding is starting to impact portions of Aransas Pass and CMAN stations and NOS stations are showing 3-4 feet total water into much of Matagorda Bay.

MIMIC of Harvey. (last 24 Hours)

srainhoutx wrote:MIMIC of Harvey. (last 24 Hours)

Is it slowing down a lot as it approaches the coast? It appears that way to me...

Stepping out for a while. Keep up the great team work gang!

kitkat4me wrote:I know that our Houston Officials have said to ignore the Facebook messages that are not from them.
However, I just received notification for following another news stations Facebook page, and people said that Houston is on a voluntary evac right now. It was asked what station stated this, and it was noted that ALL the stations are saying this.
I looked on KHOU and on this forum and can not locate that.

I follow the advise that is posted here, and concerned that if people are saying Houston is Evac and its not being reported correctly, we will have another Rita issue. But this one will be worse due to all the rain.

Thanks for the information that is being posted on here.

Perhaps it was Gov. Abbott urging people in Houston to strongly consider evacuating:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave evacuation advice Friday afternoon that conflicts with the advice of Houston area elected officials and emergency management experts ahead of Hurricane Harvey.

"Even if an evacuation order has not been issued by your local official, if you are in areas by Corpus Christi and Houston ... you need to strongly consider evacuating," Abbott said at a news conference about 1 p.m. Friday.

"If I were living in the Houston region, as I once did, I would decide to head to areas north of there," he added. "Think of your life first."

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 959607.php

It was FOX 26

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
244 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2017

The National Weather Service in League City has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
Northwestern Galveston County in southeastern Texas...

* Until 315 PM CDT.

* At 244 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over La Marque, moving northwest at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Tornado.

SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.

* Locations impacted include...
Southeastern League City, Texas City, Dickinson, La Marque, Santa
Fe, Hitchcock, Kemah and Bacliff.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.

kitkat4me wrote:I know that our Houston Officials have said to ignore the Facebook messages that are not from them.
However, I just received notification for following another news stations Facebook page, and people said that Houston is on a voluntary evac right now. It was asked what station stated this, and it was noted that ALL the stations are saying this.
I looked on KHOU and on this forum and can not locate that.

I follow the advise that is posted here, and concerned that if people are saying Houston is Evac and its not being reported correctly, we will have another Rita issue. But this one will be worse due to all the rain.

Thanks for the information that is being posted on here.

Fake News - literally. Only uses historically trusted sites like NOAA, NHC. KHOU, etc.

Mark Sudduth just texted a link to share...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hbt4W9peB ... 0825125928

honing in on Aransas area...

It can't have that much longer out there right?

Why isn't this on Hurricane central thread? What is the latest tracking for harvey?

Kayci, we made a decision a couple of year ago that the Main Page for Gulf of Mexico threats is easier to see when mobile.

Corpus Christi from Mark...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/YASbYUZFc ... 0825131022

The threat includes our local Houston area so instead of having multiple threads talking about it, it is kept here.
I read that the Euro shows an epic rainfall total for a large part of the area. Any details on that? The 12z gfs put out a 35 at my house northwest Harris County!!!