Rain falls in Texas, but the worst weather stays offshore
In good news for Texans, the worst weather associated with a storm system on Nov. 30 stayed over the ocean, while beneficial rain fell onshore.
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00:00 It's been an active afternoon out here, Michelle.
00:02 I mean, we've had, it's kind of the waiting game
00:05 we've been playing for Texas, Louisiana.
00:07 Will those severe storms develop?
00:09 So far, so good.
00:11 - So far, so good.
00:12 You know, I was telling one of our forecasters earlier,
00:14 thank goodness for clouds.
00:16 - Yeah, sometimes the clouds,
00:17 they don't allow things to heat up enough
00:20 to really get that instability.
00:22 There has been good wind shear down there,
00:24 good wind energy, but it just hasn't all come together
00:27 for an event that could have been pretty bad,
00:30 but so far, so good.
00:31 It's not over yet, though.
00:33 - Yeah, in fact, it's been an active afternoon
00:35 across Texas and in the Southern Gulf Coast.
00:37 - Storm chaser Mike Scantlin
00:39 has been following these powerful storms.
00:41 He joins us live with the very latest.
00:43 Mike, what do you got for us?
00:45 - Good evening, Kevin and Michelle.
00:47 We are in Dickinson, Texas here,
00:48 just southeast of Houston here, just almost on the Bay.
00:52 And we got on one of these storms.
00:54 We've been watching this mushy stuff all day.
00:56 It's been kind of rainy and drizzly.
00:58 Fortunately, the instability is staying just offshore.
01:01 Things are just a little too mushy to recover here.
01:03 And of course, it's gonna be dark in about an hour.
01:05 So not a lot of recovery happening,
01:07 just not enough time for these ingredients
01:10 to filter on shore.
01:11 And that's good news for people in the Houston area
01:13 and then further east into areas of Western Louisiana
01:16 that are in this potential for tornado.
01:18 We do have quite a bit of a low-level shear,
01:20 but without storms that are convective enough to use it,
01:26 it's not gonna make that much of a difference here.
01:27 So what you're seeing right now
01:29 is about the worst we've seen today.
01:30 - Well, Mike, do you think any of what was going on today
01:34 is going to impact what's going to happen tomorrow?
01:37 - You know, I'm not sure how this frontal area
01:42 is gonna evolve overnight.
01:43 I know looking, just a brief look this morning at models,
01:46 it looked kind of the same tomorrow here
01:48 around the same area,
01:49 just conditions just not quite coming on shore,
01:52 maybe come on shore just a county or two,
01:54 maybe a severe storm or two around the Houston area
01:58 and then further east tomorrow as well.
02:00 But this is definitely not,
02:04 it's not coming together today, that's for sure.
02:05 And this dark area in front of us
02:08 is the storm of the day for us so far.
02:10 It didn't briefly have kind of a rear flank downdraft
02:13 type of visual signature, but just pretty,
02:18 if you're out looking for severe weather,
02:19 this isn't what you wanna see.
02:21 But if you live here,
02:22 this is definitely what you would rather have happen.
02:25 - All right, well, thanks for that, Mike.
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