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Helping assess tree damage from possible weak tornado or strong straight line winds in the Southside Place, TX area of Houston. @NWSHouston #houwx 
More assessment pictures, @NWSHouston
More assessment video. This on Southwestern St at College St in #CityOfWestU.
Neighbors report hearing “that eery howling sound” like a was moving through. Some indicated they witnessed some rotation at the time of occurrence around 12:31pm.
Neighbors report hearing “that eery howling sound” like a was moving through. Some indicated they witnessed some rotation at the time of occurrence around 12:31pm.
More assessment. Video of tree with twisted/snapped branches at corner of Academy St and Southwestern St in #CityOfWestU. @NWSHouston
More assessment video. @NWSHouston #houwx
More assessment photos. Added new locations of snapped/twisted trees. Very narrow path of this damage. Still figuring out west to east distance of damage.
Amazing to witness the clear path of damage from the storm that passed through Houston earlier today. The attached image plots the locations in the #CityOfWestU & South Side Place, TX where @jstopnicki, @IanMckayWx, & I documented uprooted trees & snapped branches. @NWSHouston
More assessment video. Check out this wishbone-shapes branch lodged around the trunk of a pine tree along the path of damage in Southside Place, TX. @NWSHouston #houwx
What is eerily amazing to witness is the clear path of damage around this area. Streets along the path of this event (whether a tornado or microburst) show substantially more vegetation down than those areas just a few streets north or south of its path. @NWSHouston #houwx
More assessment photos. Damage to fence and the west-facing fascade of a house in Southside Place, TX caused directly by today’s storm, according to the homeowner. Bricks ripped from the wall and cratered below. #houwx @NWSHouston
More assessment photos. A sign toppled over near Bellaire Blvd and Kirby Dr. #houwx
Here is @RadarScope archived data of Super-Res Velocity data from KHGX radar around the time those storms rolled into Houston today and caused some interesting tornadic or microburst-related storm damage around #CityOfWestU and Southside Place, TX at 12:30pm. #houwx
Same radar tool but with a higher tilt of the radar beam to look higher into the storm for additional confirmation of any rotating characteristics. Super-Res Velocity (tilt 3) data from KHGX radar. Some general rotation detected. #houwx
When all hell broke loose.
My timelapse view looking west as storms approached my location in #CityOfWestU today.
Note the shear evident as clouds ahead of the system moved northwest and then everything changed when the roll cloud barreled through. #houwx
My timelapse view looking west as storms approached my location in #CityOfWestU today.
Note the shear evident as clouds ahead of the system moved northwest and then everything changed when the roll cloud barreled through. #houwx
