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04/09/08 NOW: OK/TX/KS/AR

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Ongoing elevated convection over most of Oklahoma and western north Texas, but one particular cell seems to be consistent in putting down at least nickel sized hail southwest of Wichita Falls, TX.

Severe T-Storm Warning on that cell for Archer, Clay and Wichita counties in northern Texas.

Looks like skies are beginning to clear over much of central and north-central Texas. Not even noon yet, so this should allow ample destabilization for an interesting afternoon!
Up here in Tulsa, rivers are still raging from the flooding rains of Monday night. There is great concern for more significant flooding tonight and tomorrow.
 
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The I-20 corridor beginning to look nice. Towering cu just east of Big Spring TX. Clouds have begun to clear along and south of I-20. Cu beginning to develop in W TX south of the warm front, nicely delineated on visible satellite by boundary between stratus and iso-sct cu.

Give it an hour or two and the stretch between Big Spring and Abilene and perhaps Breckenridge and either side of that line by ~40/50 mi will start to look very interesting IMO.

a few cells starting to go up in Mitchell and NE Coke Counties.

AJL
 
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New storms developing now TX!

This is 2:00 PM update new storms on the warm front and south the storms are in Mitchell, Nolan, Runnels Texas moving NE.
ABI- SJT watch out!!
 
Looks like a cell has fired near to Colorado City, TX on I20 - Tops to 55dbz already. This is right on the edge of the clearing cloud deck so I assume that SRC temps are coming into play here..
 
ABI now 72/63 with a southeast wind. Flow remains backed to the southeast with similar conditions enewd to DFW. SJT 83/61 with southerly winds. Would try to stay close to the warm front and I-20.

AJL
 
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It is still 51 degrees in Haskell with really low clouds. I am heading south hoping to break out of this into the clearing warm sector to my south. Going to and run my live chase cam @ owlsp.com/chasecam.

Clouds are slowly lifting as I go south out of Haskell, TX now.
 
Not really related to SVR threat...but I'm kind of interested to see exactly how it'll look around campus tomorrow. Already ~0.6" of rain in Norman...hourly rainfall rates just upstream of ~0.6" and rain stretching back to SW OK.

Add onto that perhaps an MCS tonight and it could be quite wet tomorrow morning. Grassy areas already starting to get little ponds.

Related to SVR threat...storms starting to develop S along the dryline right now towards the Big Bend.

AJL
 
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ABI now 72/63 with a southeast wind. Flow remains backed to the southeast with similar conditions enewd to DFW. SJT 83/61 with southerly winds. Would try to stay close to the warm front and I-20.

AJL
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I agree. Looks good from say ABI to Sherman. Dewpoints are near 70 in the metroplex with good shear along the warm front. storms are initially firing near the developing sfc low near Colorado city. A little more heating should go a long way.
 
I really don't like that cold air that is hugging the north side of I-20. There may be tornadoes near the warm front/I-20, but I predict that any will be brief and weak.

18Z RUC shows the high-CAPE lobe in the vicinity of Big Lake/Reagan County (west of San Angelo) towards late afternoon. I would try to ignore the cells near the warm front and wait for the big, bad "anchor" cell in the barren wasteland of the Big Lake/Sheffield/Ozona triangle. This area is not to far ENE of the surface low.


It isn't an easy forecast, but I think that the biggest reward possibilities are for a dry line storm, a few counties south of the warm front.

I wish I were out there.

Bill Reid
 
At this point my biggest concern along the warm front is the shear vector not being normal to the boundary. In fact storm motions should pretty much parallel the boundary, which may cause problems with triggering other storms. I think it is real important that we get discrete storms if we are going to have a tornado outbreak during daylight hours.
 
Cell moving from NW Taylor into Jones County has some decent rotation above 6000' into the mid levels per SJT and DYX.

If I were in that area I'd move north out of Abilene on Highway 83 towards Impact, TX

AJL

EDIT: TOR on that now with a reported tornado 3S Merkel
 
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The cell ~20mi west of Abilene just became tornado warned! Its showing some nice rotations at low levels and trying to hook. 90-100kt g2g shear.

Wish I was there today, would start in Robert Lee area.

EDIT: coming from grl2 warning window... AT 315 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF MERKEL...OR 18 MILES WEST OF ABILENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 31 MPH.
 
Abilene

I'm on the north side of Abilene with the anvil spreading overhead, going to just sit back for a bit before probably intercepting the storm about to move over Trent, Tx...
 
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