In hetzelfde gebied ontstaan op dit moment (7 UTC) nog steeds onweersbuien, waarschijnlijk continue getriggered door outflow boundaries van eerdere buien. Ongelooflijk!
Na de twee tornadomeldingen van gisteravond zijn er uit het zelfde gebied nog 9 andere waarnemingen van tornado's binnen gekomen.
Tussen de eerste en laatste meldingen zit een tijdsbestek van maar liefst 8 uur!
Als chaser kon je dus bijna continue op dezelfde plek zitten en zo uren achtereen het ontstaan van supercells volgen.
Sommige chasers zijn ook in problemen gekomen. Een quote van onze collega's van het Stormtrack forum: "just talked with Scott Macpartland who was chasing with Dave Lewison and Chris Kridler. They bagged a nice tube near Plainview, Texas. Then they encountered gorilla-sized Jim Leonard hail that trashed their vehicles including Scott's with the hail guards. Luckily, no injuries but their chase is over. They are limping into a nearby town with broken windshields etc.
Charles Edwards of Cloud 9 Tours called and they were in the same group. He says they got the "best tornado video ever""
Enkele zinsnedes uit chase logs:
Amos Magliocco: We caught our first storm just east of Plainview at around 21z and chased that one and another further southwest in the line until about an hour ago. We saw three tornadoes, one near Lone Star, another tornado to the southwest of that one immediately afterward, then a large cone spotted by eagle eyes Tony Laubach and Scott Eubanks through a rain shaft on the second cell near Quitaque and Turkey. Each cell hit the boundary and spun like mad--there were rotating wallclouds continuously during the storm's life cycle, and the storm settled into a beautifully sculpted updraft after dark, leading the long line of storms that stretches back to Plainview even at this hour.
J.R. Hehnly: Tired... broken windshield, side window... Waiting for storms to move away from Childress so I can go home. Caught a few forgettable spinups, first was at 5pm near Silverton. Last was not forgettable.. big tornado near South Plains.
After tornado pulled down power lines to our south we could not escape the RFD and hail... LOTS of broken windshields!
Charles Edwards: J.R. looks like the same view we had. Our problem was we went east from there and filmed another tornado that formed only about 100 yards south of the road. It became a large multivortex tornado. Hail the size of Popcorn balls were blowing sideways. We tried to get in between the hail core and the tornado, but there was no room. We wound up right at the edge of the tornado as it decided to cross the road and we made a fast U-turn and got out of there minus one windshield and one side window that is now all over the inside of the van.
Kanani Foster: Wow. That is all I can say about today. This was by far the best chase day of the year. As the moist southeast winds rose up over the caprock into the rain cooled air, they condensed and created a big cloud bank. That was neat but we were still having trouble seeing any contrast. As I watched the development on WXWorks I decided that the storm to the SW of Quitaque might have better contrast so I decided to move. This was the make it or break it move of the chase. We were leaving a rotating wall cloud in hopes that one we couldn't see would be better. We targeted South Plains and took a FM road due south that isnt even on the map yet. (thank you Mr. Local Man) which was SE of the main area of rotation.
The road we were on ended a T intersection about a mile north of South Plains. This intersection also put us about 2 miles east of a rotating wall cloud. We sat there for about 5 minutes when the wall cloud formed a funnel. It teased us for awhile only coming halfway down and after about a minute we had out first official tornado of the year. The funnel became a beautiful cone tornado. Now, we were sitting there mesmerized by this when Jay noticed that the tornado wasn't moving to either side, rather it was just getting larger. Oops. We quickly headed east about a mile and got set back up so we could record. The storm was turning right so the tornado was moving SE and passed to our south in a field. By this time the tornado was about 300 yards away and HUGE!!! The tornado had become a solid elephant trunk with a large debris swirl. We sat there until it roped out. By then we were under the wall cloud so we had to move east.
We moved a few more miles down the road and in that time another large tornado had developed to our west. We are sitting at the edge of the caprock and when we move east this time we will lose it because we will be dropping off the caprock. We ended up back at the road that went due north back to Quitaque. By then the core was starting to catch us as we were going north to Quitaque and we started receiving large hail. When we got into town we got into quarters with a couple of golfballs thrown in the mix. We headed east out of the core towards Turkey where we broke out of the precip again. From there we dropped south to another east southeast moving FM road. We just tried to stay about 5 miles ahead of the main area of rotation until we lost all contrast on the storm and decided to call it a day.
From there we busted north to Estelline and the NW to get out of the path of the storm go we didn't get cut off of our path for the way home. There were still shear markers over Plainveiw as we drove home. There is a bet going on as to if they burned the motors out on the sirens from running them all day. Overall, this was a very successful day and I am glad May is here!!
Waarschijnlijk volgen er op een later tijdstip nog veel meer en spectaculairdere foto's!
Bernard
Na de twee tornadomeldingen van gisteravond zijn er uit het zelfde gebied nog 9 andere waarnemingen van tornado's binnen gekomen.
Tussen de eerste en laatste meldingen zit een tijdsbestek van maar liefst 8 uur!
Als chaser kon je dus bijna continue op dezelfde plek zitten en zo uren achtereen het ontstaan van supercells volgen.
Sommige chasers zijn ook in problemen gekomen. Een quote van onze collega's van het Stormtrack forum: "just talked with Scott Macpartland who was chasing with Dave Lewison and Chris Kridler. They bagged a nice tube near Plainview, Texas. Then they encountered gorilla-sized Jim Leonard hail that trashed their vehicles including Scott's with the hail guards. Luckily, no injuries but their chase is over. They are limping into a nearby town with broken windshields etc.
Charles Edwards of Cloud 9 Tours called and they were in the same group. He says they got the "best tornado video ever""
Enkele zinsnedes uit chase logs:
Amos Magliocco: We caught our first storm just east of Plainview at around 21z and chased that one and another further southwest in the line until about an hour ago. We saw three tornadoes, one near Lone Star, another tornado to the southwest of that one immediately afterward, then a large cone spotted by eagle eyes Tony Laubach and Scott Eubanks through a rain shaft on the second cell near Quitaque and Turkey. Each cell hit the boundary and spun like mad--there were rotating wallclouds continuously during the storm's life cycle, and the storm settled into a beautifully sculpted updraft after dark, leading the long line of storms that stretches back to Plainview even at this hour.
J.R. Hehnly: Tired... broken windshield, side window... Waiting for storms to move away from Childress so I can go home. Caught a few forgettable spinups, first was at 5pm near Silverton. Last was not forgettable.. big tornado near South Plains.
After tornado pulled down power lines to our south we could not escape the RFD and hail... LOTS of broken windshields!
Charles Edwards: J.R. looks like the same view we had. Our problem was we went east from there and filmed another tornado that formed only about 100 yards south of the road. It became a large multivortex tornado. Hail the size of Popcorn balls were blowing sideways. We tried to get in between the hail core and the tornado, but there was no room. We wound up right at the edge of the tornado as it decided to cross the road and we made a fast U-turn and got out of there minus one windshield and one side window that is now all over the inside of the van.
Kanani Foster: Wow. That is all I can say about today. This was by far the best chase day of the year. As the moist southeast winds rose up over the caprock into the rain cooled air, they condensed and created a big cloud bank. That was neat but we were still having trouble seeing any contrast. As I watched the development on WXWorks I decided that the storm to the SW of Quitaque might have better contrast so I decided to move. This was the make it or break it move of the chase. We were leaving a rotating wall cloud in hopes that one we couldn't see would be better. We targeted South Plains and took a FM road due south that isnt even on the map yet. (thank you Mr. Local Man) which was SE of the main area of rotation.
The road we were on ended a T intersection about a mile north of South Plains. This intersection also put us about 2 miles east of a rotating wall cloud. We sat there for about 5 minutes when the wall cloud formed a funnel. It teased us for awhile only coming halfway down and after about a minute we had out first official tornado of the year. The funnel became a beautiful cone tornado. Now, we were sitting there mesmerized by this when Jay noticed that the tornado wasn't moving to either side, rather it was just getting larger. Oops. We quickly headed east about a mile and got set back up so we could record. The storm was turning right so the tornado was moving SE and passed to our south in a field. By this time the tornado was about 300 yards away and HUGE!!! The tornado had become a solid elephant trunk with a large debris swirl. We sat there until it roped out. By then we were under the wall cloud so we had to move east.
We moved a few more miles down the road and in that time another large tornado had developed to our west. We are sitting at the edge of the caprock and when we move east this time we will lose it because we will be dropping off the caprock. We ended up back at the road that went due north back to Quitaque. By then the core was starting to catch us as we were going north to Quitaque and we started receiving large hail. When we got into town we got into quarters with a couple of golfballs thrown in the mix. We headed east out of the core towards Turkey where we broke out of the precip again. From there we dropped south to another east southeast moving FM road. We just tried to stay about 5 miles ahead of the main area of rotation until we lost all contrast on the storm and decided to call it a day.
From there we busted north to Estelline and the NW to get out of the path of the storm go we didn't get cut off of our path for the way home. There were still shear markers over Plainveiw as we drove home. There is a bet going on as to if they burned the motors out on the sirens from running them all day. Overall, this was a very successful day and I am glad May is here!!
Waarschijnlijk volgen er op een later tijdstip nog veel meer en spectaculairdere foto's!
Bernard
Bericht laatst bijgewerkt: 13-05-2005 09:18
