Day 9 Report & Pictures

[Paul Sherman]

Day 9 was an amazing experience for the Netweather Team. The day started early at 345am with a nasty storm at Childress, straight line 60-80mph winds with vivid Cg Lightning.

- Pretty Close

Me & Nick knew the squall line would come into play today but targeted an area between Abilene & Lubbock for Discrete Supercells ahead of the approaching Squall line from hell. This thing was marching eastwards and munching everything in its path. We initially moved towards the line with 54f temps and everyone was shivering in the car, we moved down the squall taking a peep inside a few times before running into the car as the gust front came towards us.

We always tried not to go too far south down the line as surface temps in South East Oklahoma were at 78f with South Easterly winds. When the 1st cells went up ahead of the line they quickly became Supercellular, we knew we only had limited time before the squall hauled them in. Our cell had a great Pendant shape and was near Throckmorton (Tx) We hauled towards it and then it came into view, a rotating Mesocyclone just North of Throckmorton.

We only had 20 minutes on this cell before the squall ate it up, then as the squall came towards us we managed to outrun it about 10 miles in front and was treated to an amazing sight.

- Mothership Supercell

The scenes behind us were to stunning to not get some shots

Check out this Shelf Cloud!! It takes all 5 images to see the whole structure

The best part of the day was watching the reaction of the other 5 when this shelf appeared, every one of them had jaws on the ground!

Paul Sherman & Team

[stevestorms]

Really nice shelf, cool well done Paul and team

[Gorky]

A few more pics here:

First sight of the Throckmorton Supecell

Mesocyclone behind the town

A small funnel appears briefly but does not last for long

F5 Wedge Precip'nado

What that coming over the hill?

It's a monster!

[stevestorms]

hey guys did you know tornado report 20 miles south of throckmorton at shackleford !!!

[Roger J Smith]

Great work again, you're getting the full range of severe weather on this trip.

[Gorky]

We were a little way off when the tornado was reported. Apparently it formed pretty early on in the supercell's lifetime and it didn't produce after that. We spoke with a spotter who said he had been watching it for 45 minutes with no sighting.That was at around 22:00 UTC, the tornado was reported about 50 minutes prior to that so I guess to have caught that one you had to be on the storm from initiation.

[Greyowl]

Great pics guys especially the shelf. Keep em coming and stay safe.

[ian cameron]

Hi all

has been a long day driving through torrential rain (visibility down to around 5 metres at times) though it was all worth it as we managed to bag some awesome pics for you all when i get home and go through the video and pics I will post the best ones with a mini diary of how i saw things.

I hope you all continue to follow our progress over the next ten days or so

ps thanks to everyones kind posts and words of encouragement and maybe the odd derogatory one too B)

Ian Cameron

[NL]

Fantastic shots yet again, incredible, thats one giant 'Jelly fish' as my daughter once said.

Even with 'slight' risk days, spectacular events do occur..!

[Stuart]

Fantastic pics

[Anti-Mild]

Isn't nature amazing?

Seriously great pics there Paul, adding to the many that have gone before!

Could this be the best NewtWeather storm chase yet?

[Louby]

I cannot repeat my initial reaction to those pics! by it was along the lines of' Wow that is *bleeeeeeeep* awesome!!!

What stunning pic's guys!

[stormtroopers]

Hi Ian, stormtroopers here.

We have really enjoyed the tales, the shelf is amazing. Have you done this kind of thing before as you look familiar, have you been on tv?

Good luck with the supercell hunting, when does a cell become a supercell?

Keep safe, hope the steaks are to your fancy.

Stormtroopers '07.

[pottyprof]

Stunning Photo's there. That shelf cloud is just amazing. Looks like nature has handed you lucky people a winning hand this year!!..

[TP85]

Amazing photos! I think my jaw would have been scraping the ground as well.

[Rustynailer]

Really good pictures there.

That experience will be with you all for a long time no doubt.

Regards,

Russ.

[Kent Snow]

A brilliant set of photos. Totally awesome.

[smich]

Wow!

Good to see things working out well over there.

Isn't there someone who could photoshop the shelf cloud pics into one long panorama??(with permission of course)

It would be beyond me, sadly!

smich

[NL]

There you go, for all the late nights ive been puttin in

i'm sure Paul will let me off with copyrights!!

[Louby]

Thanks NL, looks soo awesome!!

[londonsnow]

some astonishing pics there. keep safe!

[smich]

NL, you're a star!!!!!!!

That must have been magnificent to see.

smich

[Paul Sherman]

Yes Thanks Paul, You are a bit more technical than me, it certainly shows you what we were looking at and trying to photo.

Paul S

[Andy Bown]

!! !!

That has me lost for words.

It's been great following your diaries of this chase trip. What a week or so you've had.

[pottyprof]

Great work there NL... Its an awesome view.

Aye. You have put some late nights in.. Fancy sharing the last pack of Pro Plus??