Chase 2010 - Day 16 Discussion

[Nick F]

Law inforcement reporting tornado on the ground south of McPherson, KS. Crossing I-135 now, moving NE.

4.25 inch hail from the same storm :wacko:

[Paul]

Pat's back, has some meds from the clinic and is feeling fine, so team are now on the move..

[Nick F]

Another good live weather tv link to follow the storms over central KS: http://www.kake.com/weathernow

Looks like the team are doing well to close in on the line of storms to the W and NW.

[Paul]

Team closing in on some dark, dark skies

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=chaselive;sess=

For those not following on twitter - the team are considering core punching - it could get quite exciting soon!!

[Nick F]

Cool, probably be some quarter to golf ball size hail in some of those cores!

[John Hanrahan]

(Do not Google 'recluse spider bite' if you are squeamish!)

Cheers Nathan, now what you think the vast majority of people who read this post are going to do. No sleep for me tonight!

Would have googled anyway methinks

Glad your OK Pat. Now go get me some storms!

[dallas]

Looking pretty dark now

[Nick F]

Team are heading south now towards a tornado-warned storm moving NE out of TX Panhandle around the I-40 to Sweetwater area:

Some vicious looking storms down that way down towards west of Childress.

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

TORNADO WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK

542 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

WESTERN BECKHAM COUNTY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA...

SOUTHERN ROGER MILLS COUNTY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE

THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TEXOLA...MOVING

NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS REPORT A ROTATING WALL CLOUD

THAT MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO SOON.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ERICK AND TEXOLA.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN THE TEXAS STATE LINE AND MILE

MARKER 9.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE

TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR

HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE

WALLS.

[dallas]

Were they not near sweetwater earlier,

weather.gov

National Weather Service

Watches, Warnings & Advisories

Local weather forecast by "City, St" or zip code

Tornado Warning

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK

607 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2010

OKC009-129-122330-

/O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-100512T2330Z/

ROGER MILLS OK-BECKHAM OK-

607 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR WESTERN

BECKHAM AND SOUTHERN ROGER MILLS COUNTIES...

AT 606 PM CDT...THE ERICK FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTS A TORNADO ABOUT 5

MILES SOUTH OF SWEETWATER. RADAR SHOWS THIS STORM MOVING NORTHEAST

AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL GENERALLY REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF BECKHAM AND

ROGER MILLS COUNTIES SOUTH AND EAST OF SWEETWATER.

[Gorky]

Just had a tornado pass 100 yards north of me on HW 30 south of Erick!!!

[dallas]

Just had a tornado pass 100 yards north of me on HW 30 south of Erick!!!

Blimey that is close

[pottyprof]

You got a clean change of trousers Nath??

[Paul]

Tornado trying to develop on the stream now??

[icbinb]

Looks like another good day. Just watching it on the stream makes me desperate to get out there again. Once you see a supercell you just want to see another one! Hopefully you will get some good CG's from this one if it doesn't drop anything, assuming it hasn't already of course. Hopefully you will all get some more cracking footage for us to look at.

[ian cameron]

what a day we have had Pats spider bite pauls car got a flat tyre just as a tornado was touching down we are on a big cell 40 miles south of woodward seen some good supercells have some great pics im sure the guys will upload when we have time later on tonight

[Gorky]

Quick Screencap of the Tornado I saw. It's narrow here but it looked like it was getting much bigger at the cloud base but lost condensation at the ground as I was making my escape (I was directly in it's path watching another storm, when this thing spun up in seconds!). It could be that this was a brief spin up, but the storm really started cranking after this tornado and was the cell which maurauded up towards I40 which everyone was on! More to come with a full reports when a thread is put up

Edited May 13, 2010 by Gorky