5/18/10 REPORTS: TX/CO/WY/KS

[Bob Schafer]

I shot this a few miles E of Dumas TX:

 

[Dan Cook]

Northeast of Dalhart this evening:

 

[Isaac Pato]

Here's some of the structure east of Dumas, TX. What a beautiful HP!

 

[Thomas Dolmer]

Chase Team Denmark chased with Warmsector.

Saw this nice meso north of Stinnett with awesome structure :

After a few minutes this nice tornado appeared :

We saw 3 tornadoes today, until bad road options forced us to abandon this cell.

 

[Nathan Edwards]

Witnessed multiple tornadoes from the Dalhart-Stratford storm at dusk and into night. Didn't get photos of them all but have at least 4 of them on the still camera, and a couple of possible brief spinups on video.


West of Dalhart.. Ungodly Structure!

Crazy Looking Wall Cloud!

This tornado had looked pretty violent at one point. Was on a mud road and afraid to stop so it was roping out by the time I got to gravel and took this shot. I have a feeling it may have had a satellite at somepoint also. The area to the right of the tornado also produced a brief tornado a little after this shot I believe. A slanted funnel which appears to contact the ground.

Tornado West of Stratford, multiple vortices, or perhaps just 2 separate rotational areas though this was the only one I saw touch down.

Tornado behind Stratford (I hope at least!) Perhaps related to the above funnels, but I'm fairly sure I witnessed them both lift for a few minutes before this appeared.

Interestingly, all of these were from the left split of the storm, when I got stuck on the mud road and lost the left split, I thought for sure, I would not be seeing any more, but the storm produced!

 

[Laura Duchesne]

Chased the tornadic cyclic supercell near Dumas this afternoon. Incredible day!

http://laurawx.blogspot.com/2010/05/tx-panhandle-tornadofest.html

 

[Charles Kuster]

We also chased the Dumas, Texas HP supercell. The storm initially developed about 33 miles west southwest of Dalhart, TX and moved slowly east northeast. We initially got in front of the storm just southwest of Dumas and then moved east with the storm, along with many other chasers and V2. At Stinnett, we moved north on highway 207 where we observed the storm for the last time. Due to the HP nature of the storm, we were unable to see any of the tornadoes, but were still treated to some great structure! Congrats to all who saw storms yesterday!

Storm about 6 miles west of Dumas. Picture taken at 6:10pm CDT from Road 722 (~4 miles SW of Dumas) and is looking WNW.

Picture taken at 6:55pm CDT from Road 1913 and is looking WNW.

Sticknet deployed on Road 1913 about 1 mile south of Highway 152. Picture taken at 7:14pm CDT and is looking NW. Inflow into the storm was very strong at this time.

 

[Rich Hamel]

Like a lot of folks, we were on the Dumas / Stinnett storm as well and observed three tornadoes, the last of which was a nice stovepipe/cone north of Stinnett.

A few shots:

 

[Richard Dickson]

** Posted For Brian Morganti **

Brian asked that I post the following link to his web site about his chase from Dumas to Stinnett, Texas yesterday as he is occupied with other activities at the moment.

http://stormeffects.com/recent_events.htm

 

[Marcus Diaz]

Got 6 tornadoes yesterday, and 4 of them on pics. We chased the Dumas HP and got 3 tornadoes out of it, including a fairly large cone to the E of Dumas. The first pic is the first brief tornado SE of Dumas, second pic is of the large cone further to the east down the highway. Sorry about the poor contrast.

We bailed on this storm as it neared Stinnett, simply because it was pretty HP. We jetted back west to intercept the storm near Dalhart, and got probably my best storm structure of the year.

We went up HWY 54 towards Stratford, and intercepted 3 more nighttime tornadoes. The first one was a large cone tornado, that eventually spit out a satellite as it was weakening. The first 2 are of the larger cone, and the last is with twin tornadoes on the ground with the satellite starting to rope out. I have video that shows the cone being larger, perhaps 1/4 mile wide at the time.

 

[Willoughby Owen]

Here are pics from y'day and brief reports. Pics open to large.

Getting on the 1st TX cell of the day 20mi S of Dalhart.


HUGE RFB developed.


Wall cloud with VERY strong rotation took us by complete suprise, had us hurrying.


Ragged wall cloud developed


Tornado (very brief) developed quickly to E as we were surveying the incrdible white-out of hail.


Very ragged wall cloud attempt.


Looking behind the notching sector of the storm.


Driving behind still of the hook. Outflow was RACING off the ground and smashing us.


Struggling with large hail and the hail core swiping us... we _eventually_ made it across the other side as it was now safe.


View the other side... impressive inflow tail.


Hail shaft disrupting the RFB!


View of storm and very angry hail core. Just chucking it out on earth.


Wall cloud developing just N of Stinnett.


We retreated and headed south to Borger. Amazing structure with the inflow band stretching for miles.


Wider angle with anvil/mamma in shot. Became a strobefest but capturing the lightning became hard as the LLJ strengthened bringing in dirty low cloud.

 

[Dan Fitts]

Was on the storm just west of Pine Bluffs WY. Witnessed at least 8 different tornadoes from one location along I80. Here's a few video grabs. The two in the second picture and that wedge (1/2 mi. wide??) were all three on the ground at the same time.

 

[John Gnuechtel]

Put me down for the Dumas storm as well. Got on it relatively early and was able to get this shot, facing roughly just a tiny bit south of west:

I'd never seen a wall cloud quite like this in real life before. The most interesting bit was the tail trailing underneath and off to the right. That would've been somewhere behind the storm, wrapping around and in, but it had lots of tendrils with little funnels hanging off them. Can't wait to go back over the video. At any rate, I repositioned shortly after this picture, and turned around to find that the storm suddenly had a ton of precip in the core. I must have been too far to the south and/or east to see the tornadoes. Anyway, I continued to follow it as best as I could through the hordes of chasers until the light went away. Great day.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Same song and dance as pretty much everyone else. Got on the storm near Dumas with my current chase partner Bri Winkler. We thought we may have seen a large tornado west of town, but decided it was just a very low ground scraping wall cloud. Nonetheless, it was a great day of storm chasing. Dumas really dodged a bullet on that one.

Very impressive wall cloud as we positioned ourselves just west of Dumas

Nice supercell structure

Mesocyclone starting to fill in with precip

Still very impressive structure to the west of Dumas

At this point the rotation became pretty strong, but no tornado was visible from our perspective

 

[Aaron Estman]

Got on the panhandle storm as soon as we saw a blip on radar. We were around 10 miles from where it initiated. Got this nice funnel (Couldn't tell if it touched the ground so it's staying as a funnel in my book) just north of Channing. We stayed on that storm for basically nightfall (As everyone and Vortex 2 did). Dodging DOW's and Sticknets placed everywhere around this storm, we got 1 tornado just east of Stinnett as well as some funnels. And from what TWC says (Im not going to believe them) the ground scraping wall cloud (Which had the most amazing motion I've ever seen) we saw was a tornado. I doubt that, until I see proof.

Other then that, 1 tornado in the bag, 3 funnels, tennis ball sized hail, I'd call it a successful chase.