Virtual storm chase

[Paul Sherman]

Well I said yesterday could be significant and just look at all these Tornadoes that occured in the Best Chase Country in the World, from my Position in Hayes I would have probably been on the Cheyenne Long Track Tornado, sounded like a Big Wedge between 1/2 and 3/4 miles wide, others would have had the Tornadofest in the Texas Panhandle. 2 Confirmed Fatalities with the Beaver County Storm in Oklahoma.

Today looking like a repeat but a little bit further east.

From the SPC

Paul Sherman

[Nick F]

Some good accounts and photos of the NW Texas supercells on storm track forum here:

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread...8649#post128649

Also here for OK/KS/NE/CO/SD;

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11699

Seems there was 2 fatalities in Beaver, OK. Many reports of tornadoes.

[pottyprof]

Yes, some great photos over there Nick.. Can't wait for more when some of the chasers wake up.. :blink:

[Paul Sherman]

Ooouuuucccchhh - Not Nice 4 and 1/2 Inch Hail !! :blink:

2340 450 PANTEX CARSON TX 3532 10158 SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL AT PANTEX (AMA)

Paul S

Potty the Amarillo Cam was a sea of Lightning earlier about 8am our time (2am) in the States as the Squall Line moved through.

[Paul Sherman]

As the chasers are just surfacing over in the States, expect lots of Pictures to start being uploaded of yesterdays Tors

Already have 2 clips that have been posted on Youtube

1. Verne Carlson chased the Beaver Oklahoma Wedge which killed 2 people infortunately

2. Jason Boggs chased the Tornado bear Brice (Tx)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlyBXCYljQ

Paul S

[pottyprof]

That Beaver tornado is stunning. Looks at one point to have a double vortex. WOW!!

The other video seems to have been removed..

[Paul Sherman]

Will investigate forthwith Sire

That is strange, is working fine from the same link on Stormtrack

[Paul Sherman]

Try this

[pottyprof]

That one works Paul..

Nice debris cloud..

[Paul Sherman]

Another Slight Risk today and look like DFW Is about to get hit by an approaching squall line, not a great chance of Tornadoes today and mainly a Hail/Wind event - The following MD Issued by SPC

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0370

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1101 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF CNTRL/N CNTRL TX INTO ERN OK

CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH POSSIBLE

VALID 291601Z - 291800Z

A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS NOT NECESSARILY ANTICIPATED IN THE NEAR

TERM...BUT TRENDS ARE BEING MONITORED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF AN

INCREASING SEVERE THREAT.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN IMPULSE ROTATING AROUND THE EASTERN PERIPHERY

OF BROADER SCALE CENTRAL ROCKIES CLOSED LOW...THE LEADING EDGE OF

STRONGER MID-LEVEL COOLING /PARTICULARLY AROUND THE 700 MB LEVEL/ IS

GRADUALLY SHIFTING EASTWARD THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS

APPEARS TO BE PROVIDING THE FOCUS ONGOING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT

EXTENDING IN A BAND FROM SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO THE EDWARDS

PLATEAU REGION OF TEXAS.

ACTIVITY CURRENTLY APPEARS TO BE MOSTLY BASED ABOVE SURFACE BOUNDARY

ENHANCED BY RAIN COOLED OUTFLOW. BUT...MOST UNSTABLE CAPE FOR

LIFTED PARCELS RANGES FROM AROUND 1000 J/KG ON NORTH END OF THE

DEVELOPING LINE...TO AROUND 2000 J/KG ON THE SOUTHERN FLANK...WHERE

UPDRAFTS ARE ALREADY RATHER STRONG. EMBEDDED WITHIN 30-40 KT MEAN

SOUTHERLY FLOW REGIME...TENDENCY SHOULD BE FOR STRONGER CELLS TO

CONTINUE DEVELOPING MORE RAPIDLY NORTHWARD THAN ASSOCIATED SURFACE

BOUNDARY PROGRESSES EASTWARD. HOWEVER...WITH TIME...MOIST BOUNDARY

LAYER WILL CONTINUE TO WARM AND INHIBITION WEAKEN ALONG/JUST AHEAD

OF STRENGTHENING SURFACE COLD POOL. AS THIS OCCURS...A

SOLIDIFYING/INTENSIFYING SQUALL LINE APPEARS POSSIBLE...ACCOMPANIED

BY AN INCREASING DAMAGING WIND POTENTIAL ACROSS AREAS NEAR/EAST OF

THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. THIS MAY NOT OCCUR UNTIL THE MID/LATE

AFTERNOON HOURS. UNTIL THEN THOUGH ...AT LEAST AN ISOLATED

HAIL/DOWNBURST THREAT WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE.

Paul Sherman

[Glideslope]

http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?s...p=958311:blink:

Think I have to agree with you there, sad about loss of life ..

[Paul Sherman]

Still some possibilities for the next few hours, a good possibility if some of the boundaries link up with the dryline in Western Oklahoma and Western Kansas, skies are now clearing and temps are recovering, Target area of just West of Wichita for today, so if you want the weather radio later then tune into Wichita if storms fire on the dryline later on. I'd expect initition if it goes at all sometime around 23z.

Paul Sherman

[biddie]

Thanks for the llnk Paul some of those photos looked unreal amazing !

[Paul Sherman]

Ladies and Gents I give you our 1st picture of a Kansas Tornado from yesterday.

- Bird City Tornado (Kansas)

Paul S

[Paul Sherman]

Wichita is the one to click on in Kansas for the next few hours, if you can put up with the screeching Bird on the Weather radio

Just listen out for her saying "Cloooouuuuddy"

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/streamaudio.html#livestream

Paul Sherman

**Fed up with her :lol: Now on Stillwater (Oklahoma) where the bloke is not as screechy

[Mad Murdoch]

Ladies and Gents I give you our 1st picture of a Kansas Tornado from yesterday.

- Bird City Tornado (Kansas)

Paul S

wow, that amazing,

i was listerning to the link last night u gave us.

but it was amazing evening for chasing, bet u wish u was there paul!

[Paul Sherman]

wow, that amazing,

i was listerning to the link last night u gave us.

but it was amazing evening for chasing, bet u wish u was there paul!

Kelly it is driving me CRAZY Thing is I "Could" get out there but the Airlines are stingy gits, I tried to do a 3-4 day Chase trip for this week but unless you go for at least a week the price goes up from £345 to £991 - Bloody outragous, cant wait until the low cost carriers can compete with BA & AA. Just hope all the energy does not go into the next few weeks as next week looks stormy as well.

Paul S

**I'll tell you what just made me laugh, the guy on the Stillwater Radio Link just said and I quote

"Probability of Thunderstorms in the Listening area - 100%" Can you imagine if we had that in this country, we would all be at our windows or in the field :lol: :lol:

[Nick F]

Here's a vid of the tornado that touched down near Silverton NW Texas, taken by Cloud9 tours yesterday:

NWS statement for the tornadoes yesterday:

000

NOUS44 KAMA 291612

PNSAMA

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-292000-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

1109 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS

AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 28, 2007. MANY

TORNADOES OCCURRED WITH THESE STORMS. PRELIMINARY DATA INDICATES AS

MANY AS ONE DOZEN OR MORE TORNADOES MAY HAVE TOUCHED DOWN ACROSS THIS

REGION. THREE DEATHS AND SEVERAL INJURIES HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO

THESE TORNADOES. AT THIS TIME...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE

IN AMARILLO HAS DISPATCHED THREE SURVEY TEAMS TO GATHER INFORMATION

AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TORNADOES. AS SOON AS THE

ASSESSMENT TEAMS REPORT THEIR FINDINGS WE WILL PASS ON FURTHER

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF TORNADOES AND ENHANCED FUJITA

(EF) SCALE RATING OF THOSE STORMS.

LOCAL MEDIA...STORM SPOTTERS AND THE PUBLIC ARE URGED TO PASS ON

ANY INFORMATION...VIDEO AND DAMAGE PICTURES THAT COULD HELP WITH

THESE SURVEY ASSESSMENTS. YOU CAN CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER

SERVICE AT 806-335-1121 OR YOU CAN SUBMIT A STORM REPORT VIA THE

AMARILLO WEB PAGE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA

[Mad Murdoch]

Kelly it is driving me CRAZY Thing is I "Could" get out there but the Airlines are stingy gits, I tried to do a 3-4 day Chase trip for this week but unless you go for at least a week the price goes up from £345 to £991 - Bloody outragous, cant wait until the low cost carriers can compete with BA & AA. Just hope all the energy does not go into the next few weeks as next week looks stormy as well.

Paul S

**I'll tell you what just made me laugh, the guy on the Stillwater Radio Link just said and I quote

"Probability of Thunderstorms in the Listening area - 100%" Can you imagine if we had that in this country, we would all be at our windows or in the field :lol: :lol:

well i sure would be out in a field with my camera. :lol:

lets hope the prices do go down. and if i dont say before, have a great time on your chase, i will be looking forward to all the reports and pictures.

kelly

[Nick F]

Think I'll go for a target area further South today over N Texas/S'ern OK, I-44 between Wichita Falls TX and Lawton OK is my bet for the best severe potential. GFS and NAM suggests max CAPE over this area combined, wind shear stronger here too and dry line shows driest air over W Texas and OK Panhandle than further North, though ideally high dps will need to be already present in the target area along the boundary to drier air - Dps of 64-65F currently over S Central OK:

Current conditions in OK: http://www.mesonet.ou.edu/public/current.html

GFS and NAM 0-3km CAPE for 00z Fri:

GFS Wind shear for 00z Fri:

WV imagery:

Alot of residual cloud and rain/storms from the MCS over N Central Texas and much of Central and E Oklahoma, but some clearer skies edging in from the West, outflow from this MCS may redevelop squall line activity in the next few hours to the West where skies are clearer and max insolation occurs particualry as the dry line interacts further West.

Not looking as good as yesterday's activity, but still time yet ...

[biddie]

Ladies and Gents I give you our 1st picture of a Kansas Tornado from yesterday.

- Bird City Tornado (Kansas)

Paul S

Wow!!

[Paul Sherman]

Nick in the last 3 hours I have been Virtually Screaming west from Wichita to Woodward and I am now eating a Virtual Borritto with extra Chilli Sauce !! So Woodward for me today, just on the Southern Tip of the Low Pressure and near to the Dryline, skies are realtively clear here as well.

Paul S

[Nick F]

Looks like a possible tornado sighting on the North side of Oklahoma City:

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK

415 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

OKC017-109-292145-

/O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070329T2145Z/

CANADIAN OK-OKLAHOMA OK-

415 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR OKLAHOMA

AND CANADIAN COUNTIES...

AT 415 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS OBSERVED AT 122ND

STREET AND MORGAN ROAD...CAUSING DAMAGE MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BETHANY...PIEDMONT AND WARR ACRES.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

PIEDMONT AROUND 425 PM CDT...

[Paul Sherman]

That figures, Exactly 1 month today and virtually to the hour and second we will be picking up the Barons from the Place just North West of there, namely Okarche :lol: :lol:

Paul S

[AudMun]

That figures, Exactly 1 month today and virtually to the hour and second we will be picking up the Barons from the Place just North West of there, namely Okarche :lol: :lol:

Paul S

:lol: :lol: :lol: