Jeff Snyder
EF5
I would give a breakdown of the AMA CWA tornadoes like I usually do for significant tornado events, but their PNS is pretty straightforward and well organized:
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KAMA/0703302306.nous44.html
The max rating I see is EF3 (at least a few are rated EF3). The max widths are 1mi wide (EF3 west of Kellville) and 0.8mi wide (EF southwest of Canadian). See the PNS for more information.
One interesting observation, in reference to Tornado #1 in Donley Co (s of McLean). Here is a video still from near 8:16pm while we were S of McLean on Hwy 273. As you can see, the tornado is at about the 10:00 position, which would put it SSW or maybe even SW of McLean. For those at NWS AMA (I think we have one or two employees on ST from AMA), does this match up with your observations? EDIT: Per my GPS logs, we were approx 7.5mi S of I40 on Hwy 273 at the time of the 8:15pm video stills (such as the one below).
I have more video stills after dark on my webserver at http://www.tornadocentral.com/chasing/2007/03282007/videostills/. The time stamps are given in the filenames, and they appear to be good within about 45 seconds of my GPS time. I tried to contrast-enhance a couple of the stills, and I can work on more if necessary. I also have a few from 8:55, when we were south of Kellerville (2.5mi S of Kellerville per my GPS log). I think the 8:55pm stills (particularly the first one) show the wedge that was reported northwest of Kellerville (notice that the possible tornado is to the distant northwest of us -- to the right of the bright area on the stills -- as we were driving towards Kellerville on Kellerville Road). The 4th 8:55pm still shows what looks to be the roping stage. I can't be too confident in this, since it was quite distant, but that certainly looks like a very low cloud base and a tornado to me. The time and location match up quite well with the estimated time and location given in the PNS.
EDIT: The more I look at it, the more it does appear that the tornado is closer to the 11 o'clock position relative to the northward-directed roadway. But, if the tornado I'm referring to in the PNS is one single tornado, that would imply that it must have crossed Hwy 273. There were a bunch of chasers around me at this time, including some that were a ways farther north. I'm surprised we don't have more accounts of a close encounter along Hwy 273 south of McLean if this is indeed the case. I was under the impression that this tornado remained west of Hwy 273, before another meso and tornado developed east of 273 and moved north of I40.
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KAMA/0703302306.nous44.html
The max rating I see is EF3 (at least a few are rated EF3). The max widths are 1mi wide (EF3 west of Kellville) and 0.8mi wide (EF southwest of Canadian). See the PNS for more information.
One interesting observation, in reference to Tornado #1 in Donley Co (s of McLean). Here is a video still from near 8:16pm while we were S of McLean on Hwy 273. As you can see, the tornado is at about the 10:00 position, which would put it SSW or maybe even SW of McLean. For those at NWS AMA (I think we have one or two employees on ST from AMA), does this match up with your observations? EDIT: Per my GPS logs, we were approx 7.5mi S of I40 on Hwy 273 at the time of the 8:15pm video stills (such as the one below).

I have more video stills after dark on my webserver at http://www.tornadocentral.com/chasing/2007/03282007/videostills/. The time stamps are given in the filenames, and they appear to be good within about 45 seconds of my GPS time. I tried to contrast-enhance a couple of the stills, and I can work on more if necessary. I also have a few from 8:55, when we were south of Kellerville (2.5mi S of Kellerville per my GPS log). I think the 8:55pm stills (particularly the first one) show the wedge that was reported northwest of Kellerville (notice that the possible tornado is to the distant northwest of us -- to the right of the bright area on the stills -- as we were driving towards Kellerville on Kellerville Road). The 4th 8:55pm still shows what looks to be the roping stage. I can't be too confident in this, since it was quite distant, but that certainly looks like a very low cloud base and a tornado to me. The time and location match up quite well with the estimated time and location given in the PNS.
EDIT: The more I look at it, the more it does appear that the tornado is closer to the 11 o'clock position relative to the northward-directed roadway. But, if the tornado I'm referring to in the PNS is one single tornado, that would imply that it must have crossed Hwy 273. There were a bunch of chasers around me at this time, including some that were a ways farther north. I'm surprised we don't have more accounts of a close encounter along Hwy 273 south of McLean if this is indeed the case. I was under the impression that this tornado remained west of Hwy 273, before another meso and tornado developed east of 273 and moved north of I40.
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