Heavy Rainfall Across South Texas and the Northeast; Thunderstorms in the Southern Appalachians and Rio Grande Valley

Widespread showers and thunderstorms producing heavy rain may bring flooding to South Texas and parts of the Northeast U.S. tonight into Friday morning. Scattered severe thunderstorms with damaging gusts and large hail are expected over parts of the southern Appalachians, and Rio Grande Valley of Texas into Friday morning. Read More >

Recently, we recorded an upper-air launch at our office. Much of the edited video is from a first person perspective, giving unique insight into how our meteorologists launch the weather balloon. It was breezy the day the radiosonde was launched, adding some excitement to the mix.

We normally launch the balloon twice a day. The sounding, as it is called, is released around 4am/pm or 5am/pm depending on whether daylight savings time is in effect or not.

Example output from our most recent sounding:

Most recent sounding from KRAP Upper-Air site

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Heavy Rainfall Across South Texas and the Northeast; Thunderstorms in the Southern Appalachians and Rio Grande Valley

First Person Perspective Upper-Air Launch

Example output from our most recent sounding: