I never knew Austin received so much rain...

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by anonymou5

We are at the south end of tornado alley. The suburbs and towns north of Austin are higher risk.

The things they don't tell you about America's best city to live in

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

The things they don't tell you about America's best city to live in

If you do your research you would know these things, though.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

If you do your research you would know these things, though.

Well TBH I was actually expecting more Tornadoes than we have recieved.

Since we're on subject though, how often do we get tropical storms from the Gulf? Do they make it as far inland as Austin with a significant amount of force?

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

Well TBH I was actually expecting more Tornadoes than we have recieved.

Since we're on subject though, how often do we get tropical storms from the Gulf? Do they make it as far inland as Austin with a significant amount of force?

Yes. Is Barry effecting Illinois? You just missed Hurricane Harvey. We got lots of feeder bands and training from the storm. It lasted about two days. Heavy rain and wind that even split a very large tree in my apartment complex. Had Barry scooted west toward the Houdton area we would have gotten a lot of rain. Most of the rain in these types of systems are in the north east part. That’s the part that came up from corpus to Austin and then tracked to Houston. The west side of storms, like Barry, is full of hot warm and windy air. I remember very vividly in 2005/6 being evacuated from seguin (an hour south of Austin) while in undergrad because a storm had its eyes set on tracking up that way. It shifted east and the drive home to SA was crazy windy and I could almost feel the heat from inside the car.


You may also be interested in the fact that Austin lays on the Balcones fault line. It is an “extinct” fault line they runs from Dallas down through Austin and ends in Del Río. Central Texas - What is it?

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Yes. Is Barry effecting Illinois? You just missed Hurricane Harvey. We got lots of feeder bands and training from the storm. It lasted about two days. Heavy rain and wind that even split a very large tree in my apartment complex. Had Barry scooted west toward the Houdton area we would have gotten a lot of rain. Most of the rain in these types of systems are in the north east part. That’s the part that came up from corpus to Austin and then tracked to Houston. The west side of storms, like Barry, is full of hot warm and windy air. I remember very vividly in 2005/6 being evacuated from seguin (an hour south of Austin) while in undergrad because a storm had its eyes set on tracking up that way. It shifted east and the drive home to SA was crazy windy and I could almost feel the heat from inside the car.


You may also be interested in the fact that Austin lays on the Balcones fault line. It is an “extinct” fault line they runs from Dallas down through Austin and ends in Del Río. Central Texas - What is it?

So here is something else I have been kind of wondering, especially with all the new apartments popping up every other block and after my roof leaked after a storm... given alot of these apartments are multiple stories, in the event of a Tornado, where exactly do you hide? Sure I can find a place without windows but I'm still not ground level. I'd feel pretty doomed if one came to my apartment.

[capcat]

Need4Camaro, you might be interested in this history of storms affecting Texas, with weather maps to the right side of many descriptions. I found it looking for Hurricane Allen, because I remember its impact especially. People had moved their private planes from the coast to here, but the storm produced a tornado that destroyed or damaged their aircraft at Mueller Airport. That was in 1980.
https://www.weather.gov/media/lch/ev...anehistory.pdf