2013-05-09 REPORTS: TX / OK

[Brandon Jenkins]

Started this day targeting the Seymour, TX area. After storms west of Abilene quickly organized and went severe we had to make a decision to commit and we ultimately decided to stick with our original target of NW TX hoping for some remnant boundary interaction to help aid storm organization. As storms to our south collapsed they produced a very well defined outflow boundary that aided in the initiation of widespread storms from just east of Lubbock to near Clarendon. We headed west out of Seymour and stopped just north of Guthrie to watch developing storms to our west. After toying around under a couple of severe warned cells SW of Paducah we had just about decided to call the chase when we observed a developing LP Supercell just NW of Spur, TX. We watched as it rapidly intensified and took on a beautiful stacked plate structure just before dark. It even teased us a couple times with some very well defined wall clouds before it met its demise after sundown.

 

[Jenn Brindley]

2013-05-09 REPORTS: TX

Chased a series of supercells in central Texas (mainly Ballinger area) with Skip Talbot. No blog post up yet but thought I'd swing by and share a few photos. Overall higher based storms but some killer hail in a lot of them and some really beautiful structure.

~J

 

[Joshua Nall]

Got on the storms that fired up North of I-20 and dropped down with them all the way to East of Fredericksburg. Was on storms for around 8 hours and was loving the slow storm speeds. I guess there were 4 or 5 different sups. Saw plenty of crazy sructure and big hail. That highway intersection there at Ballinger through me for a loop. I couldn't figure out how to head East. Either missed my turn or there wasn't one but I ended up heading west and the RFD caught me. I turned around and pulled over and waited for the wind to let up then tried to punch back through the core. Got into some big hail then and combination of forward spead and it falling at an angle, managed to sneak in under my roof rack and bust my windshield. Later on I got into some tennis balls and larger and filmed it falling into a pond and just tearing up stuff in general. Love the smell of destroyed vegetation. Two of the most intense hail encounters I've had to date! Both times there was a ton of it, not just a big one here and there. I picked up both of those in the pic within 5 feet of one another and I'm sure there were some larger ones around. Never saw any low level rotation even though two storms were tornado warned.










Looking like it was carved from stone!




Tennis ball size hail soon after this pic!

 

[Hank Schyma]

Evil Bat Wing Supercell, Weak tornado... the works.

Please dont make fun of my tornado... you'll hurt its feelings.
Watch video >

 

[Tim Carley]

I started this day in OKC and ended up south of Abilene TX via Wichita Falls. I arrived at the first storm just after it went warned. That cell quickly collapsed and I moved south to the next storm which is pic 2 here. I'm not aware of any reports of tornadoes with these storms, but they were very photogenic.

this storm was near Ballinger TX