4/12/09 REPORTS: TX

[Connor McCrorey]

We chased the supercell that developed near Wichita Falls, and reportedly produced a tornado in Montague County. Although we never saw the tornado, we saw some nice rotating wall clouds and got LOTS of hail heading into St. Jo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9v_7W2RHvs

 

[Jason A.C. Brock]

Easter Sunday storms

Since things were basically in my local area for today I set up the video camera and just filmed the storms developing just SW of Wichita Falls & did a timelapse of the event. Also got some nice pics of the cell that moved just North of Wichita Falls at sunset. Great colors with that storm during the "magic hour" as well as a nice rainbow. Timelapse is at http//www.holytornado.com. Jeremy Wilson also got on the storm ear sunset and witnessed hail to quarters near Lindsay TX as the brief tornado warning was going on. WE DID GET GOOD RAIN IN WICHITA FALLS...1.8 inches at my house and yes...the grass is that dead here if your wonderig about the pics....This time last year it looked like Ireland...now its more like....well Texas in Winter or Late August

http://www.holytornado.com
http://www.youtube.com/shadowchaser777

 

[Kris Hair]

Started off Sunday about 3PM leaving Sherman. I felt like this might be a classic cold core setup, but wasn't really expecting to see much. Got on a storm just west of Wichita Falls that eventually wat the Tornado Warned storm in Montague County. The storm had rotated on the south end of Wichita county, but nothing impressive. Took a good coring in Clay County, then another one in Montague. I didn't get video of it, but you can see my dodge truck in front of Connor on his video.

Couple of intense moments. Rotating cloud blew right over the top of us N of Montague. Couldn't have been more than 50 ft above us. Then we got slammed with RFD.

For not expecting much it was a good day!!

Thanks to the guys at chasertv.com for working with me realtime to get my feed set up properly! It worked perfect the rest of the day.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xdiHX4iREQ&feature=channel

I'll have some photos tonight

 

[Kris Hair]

Here's a better video of the rotation/wall cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqE938gaBuc

 

[Shane Hale]

Just thought I would throw up a quick chase report from the last minute run to Cooke County. Jason and myself headed out around 5 yesterday after spotting a possible storm about 20 minutes north of our home. En route to the intercept that cell fizzled out and it seemed that things were going to be a bust. As we looked up north there was a cell growing rapidly over the Montague Co line. Upon intercept we witnessed a very large area of circulation to our west. As we moved in closer there was a nice defined wall cloud with lots of scud moving in an out of the wall cloud along with some golf ball sized hail. The NWS issued a tornado warning for our area and said it was on the ground visible by spotters, unfortunately I did not see the tornado, if one was actually there. I will add my time lapse when I get home later this week.


Shane H.
TSSI Chase 3

 

[Simon Brewer]

Juston Drake and I documented the Wichita Falls/Montague County, Texas Supercell Thunderstorm. We were positioned along the OK/TX border south of Altus, OK most of the afternoon monitoring cells at a boundary intersection along the Red River. The cells showed promise early, but were undercut by outflow, so we repositioned ESE on the cell that had been backbuilding and slowly progressing through the Wichita Falls area. This cell will be remembered most for its hail production. The storm was outflow dominant for most of its duration, but acquired great structure and a well developed mesocyclone for a brief time (~30 minutes) over Montague County, Texas. We thought there was a very short window for a tornado as a well-developed, rotating wall cloud passed north of Montague, TX. We were very close to the wall cloud with great visual and never saw evidence of tornado development. The structure was fantastic and cold outflow from a significant amount of hail in the FFD undercut the updraft and the storm had become outflow dominant again.

The hail roar was incredible at the storms peak intensity. I'll try to get some pics and a webpage up for the day on my site soon, but for now you can view a short video (YouTube) clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z0pID8oqq0

Simon

 

[James Langford]

I missed the earlier monster up near Wichita Falls, and wasn't planning on chasing at all today. Around 11 pm, I woke up to frequent lightning flashing outside my window. I looked out to see a beautiful, electrically active cell just to my North. I grabbed my gear and headed up to a local park here in Allen:

Not bad for only having to drive 5 minutes to get to my target!

More pictures here:

http://www.langfordphotography.com/gallery/7894107_wAYpN#511894909_XWRom

James

 

[Steve Miller TX]

I wasn't able to chase east of Wichita Falls and catch the nice storm there (great pics, ya'll). But, I did encounter a severe cell north of Vernon that produced the strangest hail event I've ever witnessed. Hail almost to golfball size as soft and mushy as snowballs. Not one stone was solid ice. Very odd!! Check out the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JRRoJvc9zc

I also saw a nice elevated funnel north of Childress.

 

[Shane Hale]

I just now had a chance to throw this video on you tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiZ7mjcOQj8