Five years ago, tonight, was the Saturday night when all hell broke loose over Houston during Hurricane Harvey. If you were here, you probably remember with crystal clarity where you were, what you were doing, and the sound of that damn, damn, incessant rainfall.
@TxStormChasers In addition, this is the time of year that gas plants are taken out of production for annual maintenance that takes several weeks to have them all up for the summer. February is typically the lowest demand time.
@JackSillin Correct. Winter maintenance for gas plants normally happens this time of year as demand is lower than in the summer. Maintenance is a multi-week process.
Hard to overstate how raucous and intense this convective burst is on the eastern side of Sally.
One signal is all those ripples you see emanating from the center.
Those are "gravity waves" and occur when air rises so fast it "overshoots" into the stratosphere before sinking.
@TxStormChasers@NWSFortWorth Palestine Texas, quite a bit of damage reported downtown. Multiple power lines down, trees down, and structural damage as well.