Quincy Vagell
EF4
What a wild day for myself. I started the morning in the Black Hills (visited Rushmore) and was insistent on the Colorado play, so it was a 7-8 hour drive to get into position.
After rushing down for a tornado warned storm that quickly merged into a line, I decided to blast southeast into the Texas panhandle, where there was better low level moisture and backed near-surface winds.
A slow-moving supercell formed just north of Amarillo and took seemingly forever to better organize. I had a visual on a very low-hanging, rotating wall cloud. It spat out a few funnels (from my vantage point) before showing some signs of weakening.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/ai46yzFs...KQiLA_S58zwlhLXw3AWvVf4FuZRRgJ-LcbBSmQq0hsZnL
I moved east to get closer and just as I was nearly directly under the circulation, it dropped a tornado in front of me. I could see it for about three minutes before contrast went way down and the storm became rain-wrapped.
I took a brief cell phone video that's slightly better quality:
https://twitter.com/stormchaserQ/status/742529879413952512
After rushing down for a tornado warned storm that quickly merged into a line, I decided to blast southeast into the Texas panhandle, where there was better low level moisture and backed near-surface winds.
A slow-moving supercell formed just north of Amarillo and took seemingly forever to better organize. I had a visual on a very low-hanging, rotating wall cloud. It spat out a few funnels (from my vantage point) before showing some signs of weakening.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/ai46yzFs...KQiLA_S58zwlhLXw3AWvVf4FuZRRgJ-LcbBSmQq0hsZnL
I moved east to get closer and just as I was nearly directly under the circulation, it dropped a tornado in front of me. I could see it for about three minutes before contrast went way down and the storm became rain-wrapped.
I took a brief cell phone video that's slightly better quality:
https://twitter.com/stormchaserQ/status/742529879413952512