Chase Day 12 Discussion - Texas Panhandle

[Paul Sherman]

1st Chase Day Proper for the Tour 3 Guys so we will be heading NW On Highway 287 towards Amarillo, there is a very weak risk of Thunderstorms in the area so we will kill 2 birds with one stone and probably eat at the Big Texan and hope some Storms trundle South East towards AMA For some Lightning Photography, if anything goes severe as we arrive in the area we will give chase tomorrow evening.

Tom and John have some Videos to put up in a mo, a kind of meet and greet some of the members on this tour.

Paul S

[John Hanrahan]

Our new chase vehicles....

The guys chill out at the pool....

[Dorsetbred]

Good luck tour 3, "May the force be with you..."

[stevofunnelcl]

Dallas Sunrise - Here's to the storms. cheers

[Stu Robinson]

Paul, I am heading towards Claton, NM - see you later ...

[Arron]

Heading to Vernon, TX for lunch, then going to to keep going to Amarillo and take a check on things

[Arron]

Heading towards Amarillo now, Looking at the western texas panhandle to new mexico border target. As you know though, thing can change!

[dallas]

Looks like the rest of the day will be chilling out then, cant see much activity on your live GPS+Doppler radar

Scratch that just seen the MD

[Dorsetbred]

Some good CAPE figures beginning to show, depending where you look they are suggesting 2500-3800 CAPE in NE NM. To the SW things are already triggering. Lets go chasing..

[Paul]

For those just tuning in - live stream / gps tracker:

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

Team heading toward watch area - could be a good start to the tour!

[dallas]

Are you guy's on this new warning system?

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=crh&storyid=83063&source=0

[Paul]

They have a weather radio in the car, not sure if they have the text messages setup.

Severe thunderstorm watch issued

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0287.html

[dallas]

Looks like the team might be having some fun in an hour or two

[Arron]

Heading west from Amarillo to see what's occuring!

[Arron]

Target storm in front of us now

[dallas]

good stream quality, looks like some good structures ahead

[Arron]

Hail time now !

[Arron]

Lovely Classic supercell in front of us now, moving at a snails pace

[dallas]

NIce slow cell good for pics I suppose

Wow just saw that strike, great stuff

[dallas]

Any chance you can swing the cam left a touch cheers

Great light show this!

[dallas]

That has gone tornado warned around there now,

TORNADO WARNING

TXC117-359-220230-

/O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0003.120522T0139Z-120522T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

TORNADO WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

839 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

NORTH CENTRAL DEAF SMITH COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.

CENTRAL OLDHAM COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.

[Stu Robinson]

I blew it!

After leaving Oklahoma city at 08:00 for Day 1 of my solo chase I targeted upslope flow into the Raton Mesa of NW New Mexico. My target was Clayton, NM. I took the short route via the OK panhandle and guess what - no mobile internet signal!!!

I paused at Boise City due to an east to West outflow boundry that I thought may kick off convection. The HRRR showed a tank of a supercell forming at Clayton at 20z but no storm formed?

Instead they were all forming on the mountains and then dieing when coming off the high terrain. After watching this process for hours I decided to target a cell that had formed on tyhe lower trarrain West of Johson city - as ~I got there it died!

Looking at the radar I then could see a tornado warned cell West of Armarillo but I was too far north and west to re target onto it - Paul did you get it ?

[dallas]

Since I have followed the chase teams via webcam this has been the best ever for me. The lightning has being going nuts, looked like a battlefield scenario with flashes everywhere, must be bril to see it live.............tour 3 getting their monies worth!

[Arron]

Hi Stuart, we were on that cell from when it was born! Pretty sure we saw a cone tornado form in the rain and then lift, headed west to get a better look and had to core punch some decent hail, the road was covered and made driving a bit difficult

Dropped south and saw amazing meso structure and ended up in the bears cage a couple fo times, lightning was awesome and still is

Glad it held out Dallas, it was pretty intense and still ongoing

Off to Amarillo to grab some food and then I think we're going heading north

[Stu Robinson]

Yep it produced a cone tornado, good catch guys - I have already seen the picture of it on another USA forum - but sorry I can't repost the image here for public view

I am in Lamar (North of you) we should try and hook up tomorrow at some point as I would like to chase with you all on Wednesday (If you will have me)along - looks like a I80 in central / Western Nebraska.