Chase Case #10

[Patrick Martin]

Saw the 18z update, and saw no reason to budge out from under the cu field in AMA. With the 21z update, am sitting in the middle of a lovely red box, seeing the dryline start to kick east, nice backing winds through the panhandle, and cells developing on radar and vis sat. Still in Amarillo, TX but dropping south of town to let the developing cells to the SW mature and roll over me. Will be on the watch for something to organize and be ready to jump on it in a moments notice.

 

[Dick McGowan]

I haven't moved in an hour and have already seen multiple tornadoes! I heart Colorado. SPC upgraded my area to a tornado watch, which should help diminish that threat shortly! (PS, someone... who will remain nameless... blurted out the date...but I was headed to Colorado anyways. Yeah right...right?)

 

[Jeremy Perez]

I'm headed from Meade to Liberal, KS and then a bit south on Hwy 83 to get a look at that critter poking its head up just south of Hooker, OK. I'll be keeping an eye out for anything building around it as I head that way. I should be to a position between Liberal, KS and Turpin, OK about 4 pm & then follow things around from there.

 

[Charles Kuster]

Based on the 18Z data, I would have moved to Borger, Texas. Now, looking at the 21Z data, I will move south on highway 207 towards I-40 and hopefully be able to move on the best storm. My position as of ~21Z, Panhandle, TX.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

(PS, someone... who will remain nameless... blurted out the date...but I was headed to Colorado anyways. Yeah right...right?)

You just made me go back through all the posts to try and find it, but no luck ... lol ... I still have no idea what day this is ... obviously wasn't a chase day for me.

<shakes fist at Colorado and curses the wind>

 

[Tom Dulong]

Still sitting in Liberal, KS monitoring the latest data. Notice on Spotternet that more chasers are beginning to converge on the more favorable part of the warm sector south west of me. Favorable low level shear and helicity, moderate potential instability, and old outflow boundaries sitting in advance of a developing dry line bulge are hard to ignore. I do like the discrete convection forming in this area of the TX Panhandle and northeast NM...Hummm. However, I also like the flying eagle cell to the southeast of Lamar, CO. Think I will stay put for another 30-45 minutes to see trends on radar. I could then head northwest or southwest, depending on what looks good then.

 

[Nathan Edwards]

I'm moving North from Lubbock to Plainview. Going to keep an eye on things bubbling away as I go. Don't want to be too close to the southern end of the tor watch. I'll see what happens from there.

 

[Paul Austin]

21z

21z:

Well I couldn’t have timed my move much better. Depending on exact storm motion, I think I'll either be moving back to the east to Tulia or southeast toward Hart to intercept the cell located near Hart. Either way, I would have had time to make a determination shortly after initiation and position appropriately for the intercept. I’ll choose the northern cell, since I’m already practically on it, and the southern cell is a little to the sw, so I might be able to adjust, should it become the dominant player. Storm motion would likely influence my exact positioning, but as a best guess, I’ll say Tulia, TX. The chase is on, and I’m stoked!

 

[David Wolfson]

As best I can tell, after reaching Springfield, CO, about 19Z, I observed the developing line advancing faster toward the east north of me and as of 21Z am repositioned about 20 miles south of Holly, CO, on CO89 observing with great interest the supercell approaching from the northwest.

Looks like quite a feast day, and expect I will then be backing off generally southeast toward Johnson City and Ulysses to catch the action as it may reconstruct at the tail-end of the forward-most line. By 00Z I figure I'll be somewhere north of Liberal, KS.

 

[Paul Townsend]

I got down to Childress at 2039Z while noticing what might be building towers or maybe even full-fledged storms. Hard to tell at this distance. I anticipate seeing returns on KAMA when I find a wifi spot. Well, I like what I see in terms of the storm/s I will be going after this chase. I loop GR3 and wait for another scan just to make sure. Yep, I'm headed out of Childress west on US 287 to TX 86 so I can get up onto the caprock before the storms move east off of the caprock. Chase mode. Just like I did on my one TX panhandle chase when I was at OU, but going the opposite direction on TX 86.

 

[Buddy W Bradley]

Looks like it could be an exciting afternoon and evening. Conditions look great from OKC west to Dodge City KS, south to Clovis NM and back up to Wichita Falls, TX and back to OKC. Lots of breaks in the clouds, Good directional sheer and convection going up. I still feel like the area along the dryline in west TX and the OK panhandle will be the battle zone. I am ready to chase around Shamrock TX. Let's get out there and get some 'naders!!

 

[Corey Sloan]

Going to sit tight in Liberal, KS and watch radar trends and surface obs for the next hour....in a good spot to go in any direction...parameters are good real close to my target choice...

 

[Jared Orr]

Gosh... I'm right in the middle of 3 to 4 nice towers here in Dumas TX. decisions, dicisions... I guess I'm in best position for the northwestern tower. Hopefully it improves. I'll head in that direction and see if something else pops.

 

[JF Massicotte]

21Z: Right now in Dumas, TX, watching these towers developping everywhere and may intercept one of these that are closer to me... Fuel tank and stomach are now full and I'm ready for interception.

 

[Michael O'Keeffe]

Well after watching towers to our south we moved south to Dumas, TX monitoring the developing situation in the Panhandles. The warm front is to our NE near Pampa stretching towards Liberal down to Childress, TX. We are heading south to Amarillo, TX, and we may move just NE of town closer to the warm front.