Central/South Texas Chasers Share your Frustration

Paul Redmond

Paul Redmond

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Yup this has been a slow spring so far for folks south of DFW. There has only been one decent chase days so far this season. I had high hopes for this weekend, but I am growing pessimistic. I had high hopes for today with a quasi stationary front, associated upper low in old mexico with a possible dragging dry line. But so far the cap seems to keep winning with spewing scud precip gradually dragging across San Antonio stabilizing the atmosphere.

The only hope this weekend may be a late night MCS, which is of course boooooring. Just offering a crying in the collective beer thread.
 
We should complain more often, Torn Warned storm just west of us this morning north of Castroville. Couplet actually is tightening up. Think it's more of the two cells interacting than anything else.
 
Oh ya, I am chasing storms early in the morning in pea soup cu. LOL

You could be parked right next to a rotating wall cloud in that mess and never see a thing.

There is nothing worse than an early morning MCS, especially on a Friday morning. It keeps you up all night and floods all your weekend plans.

well at least I wont have to water the garden.
 
Fixing to get dumped on big time in the DFW metro ... a s l o w complex of storms to the NW moving SE, individual storms moving N ... oh, yeah. Gonna be a wet afternoon for sure. :/
 
Government Canyon has it share of hills. At the high points you can view the entire city. But in this case, with the frequent lightning maybe he just got lucky. I have had some success in viewing rotating wall clouds at night with the aid of frequent lightning. I have not see a tube yet in such circumstances, but I have seen rotation.
 
If you want to complain about a crummy chase season, look no further than Michigan. We haven't had a decent 'chase day' since maybe July 2, 2008.

I'm sure there are people worse off, but would a decent chase day be too much to ask? :)
 
Ben Holcomb said:
If you want to complain about a crummy chase season, look no further than Michigan. We haven't had a decent 'chase day' since maybe July 2, 2008.

I'm sure there are people worse off, but would a decent chase day be too much to ask? :)
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I don't know ben, Ohio is right there. We've had our tornadic events but you know what i learned. It's always HP, it's always 35 MPH+, and it always ends in trees somehow. :mad:
 
Michael Nicolaou said:
I don't think you were the only one from MI to think that considering the number of chasers who contributed to the sales tax in OH and IN filling their tanks back up for the trek home.
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That was a total joke. I saw some comparisons and am still cleaning up the Cherry Pepsi that I spit into my keyboard.
 
I cannot speak for Ohio, but northern Indiana proved to be a chasers paradise when I lived there in terms of road networks and view. Of course the caviat was the lack of ahem ....chasable storms, at least when I lived there. I assumed northwest Ohio was similar, and appeared to be when I drove through on I-90.
 
Western Ohio in general is tough. The terrain is for the most part, fine, north of the Ohio river, but just the usual storm modes kills ya on the inside. :D It'll go like this: Squall line, squall line, no storms for 3 weeks, nighttime squall line, 2 isolated HP supercells, and the season's over. But back to the original purpose of teh thread. Looks like those slim pickings might be getting better this week.
 
San Antonio and points west to about Uvaldi seems to be the land of the late night MCS.

Actually North Indiana is mostly filled in swamp land, which is why it is sooo flat and humid, with one of the best cartesian grid network of roads to be found anywhere in the plains.
 
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