Marcus Diaz
EF5
We left my house here in AMA around 12pm with my target being Big Spring. Kinda went with the HRRR on this day. I knew the area would have OFBs and some good dynamics from that low. Not only that but the 12z NAM had a meso-low sitting around MAF. We got to Lubbock when the storms fired out west of Andrews. When we got to the storm, it went tornado warned. We followed this storm until Big Spring. On the way, we saw a brief tornado NW of Big Spring (shown in video). We broke off and went to the supercell further west. We got another confirmed tornado east of Garden City. There were also some suspicious looking areas between Big Spring and Garden City off to the west. One of my pictures I took on my phone was time stamped at 5:43pm, about 10 minutes before the multi-vortex tornado report. When that storm followed us into Sterling City, we again broke off and went west. We got some amazing supercell structure before leaving that storm to once again go west. By this time all the tor warnings were expired and we were treated to an amazing sunset and some really thick hail fog. Overall a great chase in an area of TX I've never chased in.
Suspicious area, high contrast:
Some panoramics of 2 different supercells:
Rest of the photos from this chase, all taken by my chase partner and girlfriend. Click here.
And video of the chase.
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Suspicious area, high contrast:
![2014-05-27%2012.06.52-XL.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fthetxwxchaser.smugmug.com%2FWeather%2F2014-Weather%2FMay-26-2014-West-TX-Tornadic%2Fi-8TXh7dr%2F0%2FXL%2F2014-05-27%252012.06.52-XL.jpg&hash=32b5e39d4d4e0480cd3dc6024762d377)
Some panoramics of 2 different supercells:
![2014-05-27%2012.01.36-X2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fthetxwxchaser.smugmug.com%2FWeather%2F2014-Weather%2FMay-26-2014-West-TX-Tornadic%2Fi-b8PDg4n%2F0%2FX2%2F2014-05-27%252012.01.36-X2.jpg&hash=aeb565f4b0c45b5aec221ff835161ee2)
![2014-05-27%2012.00.16-X2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fthetxwxchaser.smugmug.com%2FWeather%2F2014-Weather%2FMay-26-2014-West-TX-Tornadic%2Fi-KHQFz4g%2F0%2FX2%2F2014-05-27%252012.00.16-X2.jpg&hash=69c3ecf34e1b239e10960b2afe640d78)
Rest of the photos from this chase, all taken by my chase partner and girlfriend. Click here.
And video of the chase.
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