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1,000 mile long 'Texas hooker' creating havoc for Midwest
A weather system affectionately known as a "Texas hooker" is making its way through the country bringing the threat of severe weather all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ohio Valley.
While we in the Bayou City are getting drenched with rain Thursday afternoon, western Tennesse, eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi are on tornado watch. Where the system gets further north into Iowa, the National Weather Service has a blizzard watch in place.
The National Weather Service said it doesn't use the term "Texas hooker" and they don't know where it started, but it's thought it was adopted as a simple way to describe the shape of the weather system and its origin in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle.
Also known as a "panhandle hook," the hook refers to the leftward east-to-northeast track the system takes on its route across the country.
More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/1-000-mile-long-Texas-hooker-creating-havoc-for-5253115.php?cmpid=hpfc .
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