4/30/04 NOW: TX/OK

[William Combes]

Albany TOR warning

The team from F5 Tornado Safaris is on the cell in Albany. No word yet on whether the warning is verified.

 

[Amos Magliocco]

Re: Albany TOR warning

Originally posted by William Combes
The team from F5 Tornado Safaris is on the cell in Albany. No word yet on whether the warning is verified.

Ask them to turn on their webcam!

I think that storm has the most potential. Per SPC Mesoanalysis page, moving into 2500 j/k mixed layer CAPE and lower LCLs.

 

[William Combes]

Webcam!

No kidding. I actually spent about 3 months researching the live video process. Like Foxnews does in Iraq. Lot's of $!!! Well, at least my target city pretty much verified. I'm going to try and give them a call right now....

 

[Verne Carlson]

The Abilene cell is showing 70mph shear on the last few scans. Really popping up there!

 

[William Combes]

No tornado yet....

Nothing to report yet on this Abilene storm. They are on the SE side and experiencing awesome inflow. Their trying to position themselves a little better and will stay with this one for a while.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Here's the latest grab on that storm as of 2 mins ago:

<img src=http://img47.photobucket.com/albums/v143/mikeperegrine/abi_cell.gif>

 

[William Combes]

Blog

I have a blog set up for our chases that I have not published.

Here is the link

www.clearweather.com/2004

 

[William Combes]

WXtap

Is WXTap down?

 

[Amos Magliocco]

Re: WXtap

Originally posted by William Combes
Is WXTap down?

Doesn't seem so. Last image I have from Dyess is 1937z same as what's showing on NWS:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p1...kdyx/latest.gif

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Working fine here Bill - I love watching the animation on that storm -

Here's the latest tor-warning language on it:

TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
240 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHACKELFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALBANY

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 233 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF ALBANY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

 

[William Combes]

They are 1 mile west of Albany....started getting hit with a lot of hail. They are now trying to reposition. If there is a tornado in this one, they should be seeing it for crying out loud!!! I'll call Gregg back in 5 minutes.

 

[William Combes]

Blog

By the way...not a lot of wx jargon on the blog. This page is for our clients family and friends to view.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Here's an updated radar breakdown of the Shakelford Co. cell, which continues to surf the boundary and remains in good, isolated environment ... still very inviting - - There are actually five mesos continuing to show up across the board -

Shakelford:

70DBz; 246/22 kts. (straight east); Mx. Size = 2.00; position is dead center of the county; still a very nice hook.

<img src=http://img47.photobucket.com/albums/v143/mikeperegrine/shakelford.gif>

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Hmmm - what does anyone want to bet Tim Marshall is on that storm:

His target this morning:

"TARGET: GRAHAM, TX TIME OF DEPARTURE: NOON"

Just a few short miles down the road -

 

[William Combes]

A little less impressive

Starting to loose some structure on this storm near Abilene. Report from the field is that it seemed to be wrapping up a bit. Hopefully just a lull in the cycle.