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Bonus Preparation Chase - 6th May 2014 (Texas)


Paul Sherman

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

So today was supposed to be a setting up day, and that went amazingly well, with everything working perfectly, radio, grlevel3, dongles, cradlepoint, threatnet, mapping software, it all worked.

 

Then the weather models and SPC Slapped a "See Text" risk very close by in Western North Texas so we thought why not have a tester chase to see if everything runs smoothly, now I have chased a few see text risks before and had surprisingly good outcomes, other chasers just will not entertain anything under a slight risk (each to their own i suppose)

 

Chase target was Wichita Falls and we ambled up there for some lunch, the dryline was very evident about 30 miles to our west and we watched turkey towers go up and down until finally the cap was broken at about 6pm down near Abilene.

 

A pair of quite weak storms were ambling along at 10mph to the ene so we went south to the town of Graham (Scene of Tour 2's Tornado last year on the 17th May) and positioned under the rain free base and edge of the hail core. A beautiful shear funnel danced up and down for 10 minutes and we took sporadic bursts of quarter sized hail, some nice Cg bolts were also raining down at this point.

 

We headed east to Jacksboro and positioned just SE Of the storm for it's dying stages and caught some pretty decent structure to end the day.

 

A nice way to blow the cobwebs off.

 

Paul S

 

post-24-0-52764800-1399438509_thumb.jpg - Our Position 

 

post-24-0-44095700-1399438537_thumb.jpg - Shear Funnel

 

post-24-0-72491800-1399438559_thumb.jpg - Quarter sized hail

 

post-24-0-50314100-1399438588_thumb.jpg - Nice structure

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.

That quarter sized hail hasn't damaged your new vehicle already?.. Great start  for you even though it was just a 'Text' risk.. Better chances today with a small opportunity to seize your first tornado of 2014..!

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  • Location: Darlington 63 m or 206ft above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snow, Storms, Snow Thunder, Supercells, all weather extremes
  • Location: Darlington 63 m or 206ft above sea level

yep chances are better today looking at the current forecast good luck and stay safe 

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