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The team can only reply when they are near a wifi hotspot, and I doubt they'll desert a storm to find a library / motel etc just to let us know what they are missing
another thing... Storms colliding isn't a good thing as far as storm chasing goes. The storms lose structure, and are less likely to produce tornadoes. An ideal supercell is discrete, with as much distance between it and the next storm.
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Out of interest.. the Colorado City storm had 2 tornadoes reported with it at once earlier...
here's the report
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY... AT 527 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED TWO TORNADOES. ONE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 1 MILE WEST OF THE WEST INTERCHANGE IN COLORADO CITY. THE OTHER TORNADO WAS NEAR THE POWER PLANT ON HIGHWAY 163...5 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO CITY. THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
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I really doubt the team are still in Beckham County.. They are probably on the move which is why they havn't been posting here... I'm sure they are on one storm or another
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Tornado warning now in effect for Hall County. Confirmed tornado earlier 6 miles NW of Clarendon. Another confirmed tornado in Mitchell County
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All of these storms you are seeing are supercells...
Long lived storms with broad rotation...Anyway..tornado warning now in effect for gray county based on radar indicated rotation.
Strong rotation also showing up in Southern Hall County and Central Motley County. Hopefully they are on one of these cells
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There is a tight couplet showing on the clarendon storm at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go tornado warned soon. I don't see anything at the surface, but it's really rotating higher up!
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Yep cheers for that
Paul looks like a nice cell to your west, can you see it yet? Tops up to 30,000ft.
Tops are actually 42.5K on that cell from the Amarillo site. It is right on the Frederick sites range limit so you are best switching to the Amarillo site for now.
Or you can just load up multiple GRLevel 3's and look at all of them
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Hi paul, sorry to ask a stupid question but is that county visible on the oklahoma radar?
The radar site at Frederick, OK is closest. Vance AFB, OK and Amarillo, Tx are also justwithin range
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Looks like things are getting going... Seems to be a cell trying to break through near Pampa. Should be the first of many today.
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The soundings from Frederick don't look bad at all (5000 CAPE at 21z predicted). Shear profiles look a bit better than most other areas, but still not great. If there are going to be any tornadoes today, I'd expect it to be in this area.
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Well they've just upped the area to a moderate risk based on hail risk. Also there is now a hatched 10% tornado chance in Western OK. Looks like a good day on the cards...
Good luck guys.. you don't know how envious I am of you being out there
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Personally... I would choose the extreme east of the Texas panhandle as my start location, somehwere between Canadian and Childress. I think storms will initiate just east of Amarillo and move east into OK. They'll probably be high based for a while, but hopefully, you should be able to get some nice shots if everything stays discrete for a while. Tornado threat is marginal today, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few tubes dropping if your lucky...
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Ouch!! Would'nt fancy getting hit by that yesterday in Arkansaw 4" Hailstones not nice!
5 Tornadoes Reported for yesterday 1 in Texas 1 in Tennessee and 3 in our good ol favourite Missouri
Time Size Place County State
2253 425 CORNING CLAY AR 3641 9059 (MEG)
Paul Sherman
Interesting that the tornadoes in Missouri followed the same path as the last ones through that area hitting Caruthersville again. Maybe it's trying to take away Sedalia's claim to be the tornado capital of Missouri
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I think the picture says it all really...
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Remind you of anyone?
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We had some snow here in the morning. Nothing since though although the clouds have frequently looked like they were about to dump some white stuff on us
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We've had some light snow here in the last hour or so. Didn't realise till I went outside, and there is a very light dusting on the cars.
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Had some very light snow as I was walking back from the pub at about 11:20. Bodes well for tomorrow :o
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Light snow in Scarborough finally. At least it's something
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Had some light snow here. Very large flakes, but they seem to spend more time going up than down due to the turbulent wind outside
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Some really heavy hail coming down at the moment here. Covered what surface had avoided a cover so far such as the main road...
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Had some light snow around 4:00ish. In the last hour or so whilst I've been away from any windows, it's come down heavier and added another covering to all surfaces. Only a cm or two though.
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Light snow flurry falling at the moment
Edit: Really chucking it down now :lol:
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It's been snowing on and off since yesterday evening here. Total stands at about 3 inches, drifting to over a foot in places. However, nearer the coast where a lot more showers have been falling it's not accumulating as easily, so they've probably had more snow, but less to show for it. I couldn't count the individual showers which have come through, but probably as many as 20
They don't tend to last long before being replaced by 15 minutes of glorious sunshine, then more snow and hail.Current back yard picture,
Us Chase Day 3 Discussion - Tues 2nd May 2006
in Hurricanes, Cyclones and Extreme weather worldwide
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No problem.. A storm is just a giant heat engine, and it needs to be able to breath to fuel itself. If other storms are close by, they block inflow into the storm. This is why the southern most storms of a complex are usually the best targets, as there are no storms south of it to obstruct inflow. You can see that perfectly today in the way the Mitchell County cell has dropped several tubes whilst being unobstructed to the south. You'll see the phrase Tail End Charlie been mentioned a lot over the next few weeks I bet
Reports so far:
2114 5 E DOUGHERTY MOTLEY TX 3394 10100 SEVERAL REPORTS OF LANDSPOUTS 5 MILES EAST OF DOUGHERTY THROUGH 8 MILES WEST OF ROARING SPRINGS. THE CIRCULATION INCREASED IN DEPTH AND EXTENDED FROM THE SURFACE TO THE (LUB)
2145 6 NW CLARENDON DONLEY TX 3500 10097 (AMA)
2210 5 E WESTBROOK MITCHELL TX 3236 10093 TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST EAST OF WESTBROOK (MAF)
2214 5 E DOUGHERTY MOTLEY TX 3394 10100 SEVERAL REPORTS OF LANDSPOUTS 5 MILES EAST OF DOUGHERTY THROUGH 8 MILES WEST OF ROARING SPRINGS. THE CIRCULATION INCREASED IN DEPTH AND EXTENDED FROM THE SURFACE TO THE (LUB)
2227 1 W COLORADO CITY MITCHELL TX 3240 10088 A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 1 MILE WEST OF COLORADO CITY NEAR THE WEST INTERCHANGE. (MAF)
2240 10 ESE TURKEY HALL TX 3433 10074 TWO STORM CHASERS REPORTED A RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO (LUB)