4/30/04 RPTS: TX/OK

[Michael Maxwell]

Oh ok.
They were just behind us for a long time from Ardmore and we saw they were in a hurry. We tried a few time to let them pass and they finally did. Then we couldn't catch up to them. Until the stopped. It was too bad we were both chasing the wrong storm. The one just to the west that produced the tornado we missed. No radar on board and we were watching a wall cloud on the storm closest to Ardmore.

 

[Jason A.C. Brock]

T.A.S.C.: WEBSITE UPDATE FOR APRIL 2004 CHASES

After a very hectic weeks of April I have finally updated the T.A.S.C. site to feature all of the chases from the last two weeks. The can be found at http://www.texhomastormchasers.com

Included are the following:

4/20 Bust chase Ardmore Ok

4/21 Central Ok Supercells with wall clouds funnels & Arbuckle mountains baseball size hail pics! & A chase buddy & lightning

4/22 Montague county Texas monster HP supercell chase with Mike Litteken features wall clouds & funnels (Storm dropped as much as 18 inches of rain!) & lightning

4/23 Walters OK outflow dominant Supercell with gustnadoes as well as Olney Texas brief tornado & lightning

4/25 Baylor county Gustfront & Lightning

4/29 Quanah & Chilocothe Gustfront & Gustnadoes with lightning

4/30 Petrolia Texas Supercell with large cone tornado as well as Mineral Wells & Weathorford Texas monster gustfront

Also included are pics from New chaser Michael Litteken & Links to Kenneths McCallisters April chases & other chaser accounts as well.

The site will be updated by tomorrow at noon so check back then!

I will also be working on adding some videos from these chases which include Arbuckle mountains baseball size hail, The olney Texas tornado, The Petrolia Texas tornado, Montague County Massive & violently rotating wall cloud, & more.

http://www.texhomastormchasers.com

 

[Bill Tabor]

I first targeted the area just along the warm frontal boundary / low intersection north of Cisco, Tx. Lots of cells that eventually ran together and looked a bit like a squall. I didn't like it. I broke south for my alternative plan along the dryline and intercepted a nice, healthy cell north of Coleman, Tx. It produced a very large wall cloud, large funnel, and some large hail with hail roar. I got there probably 20 minutes after a tornado warning was issued and supposedly a DPS Trooper called in a tornado for the only tornado making the logs of the day as far as I know. It also showed TVS a couple of times on radar. This was a very beautiful storm with some nice inflow structure. Check out my pics on my webpage:

http://www.tornadoxtreme.com/html/april_30th.html