[0] I live in and am in the Big Bend area, so the news, tweets, emails, and texts about the storm are a bit ... much.
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=MLB&produc...
The first couple of images have cycled out now, but they showed that blob expanding from nothing right where it starts in the current sequence.
(it starts at 1246 here: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/MLB/ Not a great view without the map underneath.)
[0] I live in and am in the Big Bend area, so the news, tweets, emails, and texts about the storm are a bit ... much.