Quincy Vagell
EF4
There was nothing particularly noteworthy about this chase day. An intriguing outflow boundary was in place from the Texas panhandle into North Texas during the afternoon. The environment over southwestern Oklahoma was extremely favorable for intense storm development, but convective initiation was not realized until it was too late. There was also a robust supercell that did form along the boundary, but it was well south from where most people were chasing. That storm drifted southwestward into Hill Country and produced significant severe.
At least one storm had the potential to produce over the eastern portion of the Texas Panhandle, but the storm fired off of the dryline and was not able to move far enough east into a considerably more favorable air mass. The storm drifted east and new cells developed in western Oklahoma, but they formed too late to tap into the primed air mass.
I bailed a few hours early and headed west into Texas. Just before it was too late, I stopped for a few photos facing east toward Oklahoma and caught the updrafts from a distance. There's really nothing else worth sharing aside from the photo below, but I thought I'd share:
At least one storm had the potential to produce over the eastern portion of the Texas Panhandle, but the storm fired off of the dryline and was not able to move far enough east into a considerably more favorable air mass. The storm drifted east and new cells developed in western Oklahoma, but they formed too late to tap into the primed air mass.
I bailed a few hours early and headed west into Texas. Just before it was too late, I stopped for a few photos facing east toward Oklahoma and caught the updrafts from a distance. There's really nothing else worth sharing aside from the photo below, but I thought I'd share:
