Rain in Austin/Lake Travis, Lake Levels ?

[Ratickle]

I turned on the weather channel to check on tomorrow's weather. They were talking about how a place close to Auatin had 5.5 inches of rain in one hour! I called Mobilemercman. He was on his way to see Griswald because there was a call that the creek, (dry at lunch) was running into the marina with docks (which had been on dry land for months), trees, tires, etc were all washing down and smashing boats etc. Hw sent me a couple short phone vids of crap washing by. I guess it's quite the mess. Maybe, at this rate. the lake will be full by the Saturday Poker Run????

 

[Ratickle]

Rain may continue into weekend
An El Nino connection?
Updated: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, 7:17 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, 4:55 PM CDT

Jim Spencer
AUSTIN (KXAN) - After nearly a month-long dry spell, rain and thunderstorms spread across Central Texas Thursday.

Extraordinarily torrential rain was reported over parts of the Hill Country. An LCRA rain gauge on the Pedernales River at Johnson City recorded 4.27 inches of rain in one hour. That is considered a once-in-100 year one-hour rainfall rate. 5 inches fell in one hour and 10 minutes.

7.15 inches fell in three hours 5 miles southwest of Leander. Many locations near Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, Round Mountain and Johnson City received 4-5 inches of rain or more.

The cold front triggering the rain is expected to move slowly to the Texas coast Friday, but an upper level, low-pressure system will hang back over West Texas, continuing to produce periods of lighter rain and a few thunderstorms into the weekend.

The main storm system is forecast to move across the state Sunday, bringing an end to the rainfall.

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center is forecasting general rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches across the KXAN viewing area through Sunday. Isolated 4-inch totals will be possible.

While there may be a few strong thunderstorms and some minor flooding, the severe weather threat is minimal.

The last measurable rain in Austin fell on Aug. 18.

 

[Griswald]

click here for some video

The lake won't fill up from this event at all. So far, only 4" rise as of this morning. We're 47' below full pool. It will take a massive rain event over several days to have any dramatic impact, but we'll take what we can get!

 

[Ratickle]

Well, full yet?????:sifone:

 

[Griswald]

same

 

[Bobcat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRO7PxiIkeg

 

[phragle]

Raindrops keep falling on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothin' seems to fit
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling

So I just did me some talkin' to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he' got things done
Sleepin' on the job
Those raindrops are falling on my, head they keep falling


But there's one thing I know
The blues he sends to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me

Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Crying's not for me
Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me.

 

[Ratickle]

JONESTOWN — Scott Legendre was sitting down to dinner in his Lake Travis boathouse with his fiancee, Marianne Lowitzer, on Thursday night when the floodwaters hit.

"We had just put the food on the plate, and we looked out the window. ... Around the bend, about 200 yards away, we saw the entire marina smashing into the cliff side," Legendre said Friday.

Within seconds, the marina crashed into Legendre's boathouse — where he lives on Lake Travis in Jonestown — and began pushing it down the lake. Legendre grabbed his pet parrot, and he and Lowitzer jumped into his johnboat and made for shore.

"It crashed the entire docks into my boat and started washing us away with it," Legendre said.










Deluge does little to help Lake Travis, but more rain expected this weekend

 

[Griswald]

the boat ramp where I was filming those docks go by is in the upper left of the before picture.

 

[Serious News]

A potent late-spring storm system is producing rounds of showers and heavy thunderstorms over Central Texas Memorial Day.

As of Monday morning, the area that feeds into Lake Buchanan has received widespread rainfall totals of 3-5″. The Lake Travis inflow basin has seen rain amounts between 0.75-3″, and Lake LBJ has seen 1-3″.

But what impact has this welcome rainfall had on the Highland Lake levels?

According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Lake Buchanan has held relatively steady thus far – but is expected to rise between 2-6 inches through the day Monday.

Lake Travis has already risen 1-2 inches Monday morning, and the LCRA expects the lake to rise another 2 inches through the day Monday.

While these lake level rises are welcome news during the severe, ongoing drought – Lake Buchanan remains 26 feet below its May average and Lake Travis is 46 feet below its monthly average. Both lakes are 2 inches lower than they were a week ago.

Recent heavy rainfall during our wettest month of the year has provided more soil moisture and lowered fire danger, the LCRA says that rainfall totals have not yet been high enough to produce significant runoff. The LCRA adds that repeated, heavy rainstorms would be needed to significantly raise storage levels.

http://kxan.com/2014/05/26/heavy-rains-wet-soil-but-do-little-for-lakes/

 

[Serious News]

Updated: 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 2014

With rainfalls totals at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Camp Mabry breaking records set in 1968, the Austin area is now surprisingly above the normal year-to-date typical rainfall totals.

Before this latest storm moved through the area, meteorologists had measured a year total of 11.7 inches of rain to fall so far this year at the airport — an amount slightly above the expected year-to-date total of 11.57 inches.

In the past week, the Austin area has between 3.5 and 4 inches of rain fall. The area high was 8.2 inches of rain that fell east of Mason, according to the Lower Colorado River Authority.

That has created a slight increase to lake levels, but the LCRA said Tuesday morning the area would need continued prolonged rain events to counteract the prolonged drought. As of May 20, all of Travis, Williamson and Hays counties remained in various stages of drought ranging from moderate to severe, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s office.

http://www.statesman.com/news/weather/flood-advisory-in-effect-for-area-until-7-am/nf7mm/

 

[Serious News]

Rainfall pelted parts of the U.S. Southwest, including in Texas from El Paso to Houston. In Plainview, about 45 miles north of Lubbock, 4½ inches of rain was reported over 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. CDT Thursday.

"We are getting moisture from Odile," said Cory Van Pelt, a National Weather Service forecaster in New Braunfels. "We also got a lot of Gulf of Mexico moisture that came in, a combination of the two."

The Austin area received 5 to 7 inches of rain early Thursday, said Van Pelt. About 40 miles north of Austin, near Jarrell, a weather service observer measured almost 1½ inches of rain fell within 30 minutes after 4 p.m.

http://news.msn.com/us/search-to-resume-for-texas-deputy-missing-in-flood

 

[Serious News]

Amazing, ties the highest level since July 9, 2011. 7' of rise in one day.

 

[Serious News]

Yesterday it ended at 647.57, up 10' in one day. Today up over another foot already, more rain in the forecast.

 

[Serious News]

Currently at 655.58 feet. Up 20' in three days, 33 feet this year so far.

 

[Serious News]

Wow

Today's Level


January 1 2015 Photo


Today's Photo, same location.

 

[Serious News]

658.78 currently.

 

[Coolerman]

This rain and storms are getting old. Every night, again and again.... My first summer down, but glad to here from local texans that this isn't normal.

 

[Serious News]

662.34 current level.

 

[Serious News]

665.03