CHASE CASE 4

  • Thread starter Thread starter Matt Gingery
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I'm going to spend the night in Lubbock, TX to wait for the 12z data. But the expectation is to head further west/northwest towards the New Mexico border tomorrow.

It looks like there is another 500mb speed max coming out of northern Mexico poised to be over eastern New Mexico/west Texas tomorrow. Also there is a great low level moisture source, both from the surface on up to 850mb, coming from the southeast from the western Gulf riding up the high plains.

Tomorrow upslope flow along with deep moisture convergence along the dryline in eastern New Mexico will probably play a key role in storm initiation.
 
I think I'll take a chance and go for the northern stuff and try to avoid the bigger chase convergence to the south. I can still get to the TX panhandle if it looks like that's going to be the only play. Setting up in Dodge City, KS.
 
I'm staying put at home (Amarillo) waiting for new data to come out.
 
Put me in Wichita Falls, TX. Don't ask how I got there so quick, it involved an Indiana Highway Patrol auction. (It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks.)
 
I am hanging out in Lubbock....think I'll go shoot some scenery pics. Looks like some good venting UL winds across W. Texas and surely a WF/DL somewhere close by for the chase.
 
12Z DATA

UPPER AIR

250MB: http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsw1tu.gif

300MB: http://i47.tinypic.com/290pmwp.gif

500MB: http://i48.tinypic.com/28aoizm.gif

700MB: http://i49.tinypic.com/2qurnzq.gif

850MB: http://i45.tinypic.com/347k9b8.gif

925MB: http://i50.tinypic.com/2wpqk3t.gif

SOUNDINGS

ABQ: http://i46.tinypic.com/rw3r4x.gif

AMARILLO: http://i50.tinypic.com/2d7j094.gif

DODGE CITY: http://i46.tinypic.com/2j2b0vt.gif

MIDLAND: http://i49.tinypic.com/ape53r.gif

NORTH PLATTE: http://i48.tinypic.com/30wsh2u.gif

OKLAHOMA CITY: http://i47.tinypic.com/10752yx.gif

OMAHA: http://i45.tinypic.com/2zp0gfc.gif

TOPEKA: http://i47.tinypic.com/2r466wi.gif

VISIBLE SATELLITE

MIDWEST: http://i45.tinypic.com/2yyr41y.jpg

N PLAINS: http://i46.tinypic.com/fjjjop.jpg

S PLAINS: http://i45.tinypic.com/14kcwtz.jpg

RADAR COMPOSITE

MIDWEST: http://i48.tinypic.com/2cmncqg.gif

N PLAINS: http://i50.tinypic.com/21zygw.gif

S PLAINS: http://i47.tinypic.com/90qffa.gif

SURFACE PLOTS

MIDWEST: http://i48.tinypic.com/30adutf.gif

S PLAINS: http://i47.tinypic.com/2ag7s6p.gif

UPPER MIDWEST: http://i50.tinypic.com/161ympd.gif

SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS: http://i46.tinypic.com/2sb4m7a.gif

WIND PROFILER: http://i45.tinypic.com/10iaw6u.gif

CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK:

DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

...SRN ROCKIES INTO THE SRN HIGH PLAINS...
ACTIVE PERIOD ON TAP ACROSS THIS REGION AS UPPER LOW OVER NRN GULF
OF CA EARLY THIS MORNING MOVES SLOWLY EWD AND THEN EJECTS NEWD OVER
THE SRN HIGH PLAINS BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. MID LEVEL MOISTURE
PLUME/WARM CONVEYOR BELT HAS SPREAD INTO CENTRAL TX EARLY THIS
MORNING LEAVING THE HIGH PLAINS OF SRN/ERN NM AND WRN TX WITHIN MID
LEVEL DRY SLOT AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER LOW. THIS WILL MAINTAIN
COLD MID/UPPER LEVEL TEMPERATURES AND STEEP LAPSE RATES AND SHOULD
AID IN SURFACE HEATING TODAY. SURFACE ANALYSES THIS MORNING
INDICATE WEAK LOW CENTER NEAR ELP WHICH SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE FOR
MUCH OF THE DAY...WITH SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING NNEWD FROM THIS LOW
ACROSS ERN NM TO NEAR THE SERN CO/SWRN KS BORDER. THIS WILL LEAVE
SSELY SURFACE WINDS IN PLACE EAST OF THESE FEATURES AS HEIGHTS FALL
ALOFT ACROSS NM. SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE ALREADY NEAR 60F ACROSS
MUCH OF THE PERMIAN BASIN...WHICH SHOULD SUPPORT AN AXIS OF MODERATE
INSTABILITY EXTENDING INTO SWRN/W-CENTRAL TX AND SERN/E-CENTRAL NM
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS LOW CLOUDS BEGIN BREAKING UP. NAMKF
FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE MLCAPE MAY EXCEED 1500 J/KG ACROSS THIS
AREA. STRONG MID AND UPPER LEVEL SOUTHWESTERLIES WILL SUPPORT
EFFECTIVE BULK SHEAR IN EXCESS OF 50 KT...SUPPORTING A MULTITUDE OF
STORM STRUCTURES THROUGH THE PERIOD.

LARGE HAIL HAS ALREADY ACCOMPANIED CLUSTERS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EARLY THIS MORNING OVER FAR SERN NM...WITH THIS ACTIVITY LIKELY
DIMINISHING IN INTENSITY THIS MORNING AS IT LIFTS INTO NERN NM/TX
PANHANDLE. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER HIGHER
TERRAIN OF NRN MEXICO/SRN NM THROUGH THE DAY WITH ACTIVITY LIFTING
NEWD IN THE FORM OF SUPERCELLS...LIKELY SPLITTING...ALONG WITH
ORGANIZED LINES/CLUSTERS. INITIAL STORMS WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT
ELEVATED...THOUGH ACTIVITY WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY SURFACE-BASED BY
THE AFTERNOON. MORE CONCENTRATED DEVELOPMENT IN THE FORM OF A LARGE
MCC/MCS WILL OCCUR LATER TODAY/THIS EVENING. DESPITE THE LIKELIHOOD
OF SUPERCELLS...LARGE HAIL /SOME OF WHICH WILL BE QUITE LARGE/ WILL
BE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT AS WEAKER FLOW AROUND H85 LIMITS LOW LEVEL
HODOGRAPH STRUCTURE. HOWEVER...SUPERCELLS EMANATING FROM RIGHT
SPLITS COULD CERTAINLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITHIN THIS ENVIRONMENT AS
DEVIANT MOTIONS INCREASE LOW LEVEL SRH. GIVEN STEEP LOW TO MID
LEVEL LAPSE RATES EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON...COMBINED WITH
POTENTIAL FOR VERY ORGANIZED CONVECTION...WIND DAMAGE THREAT MAY
ALSO BECOME MORE PRONOUNCED LATER TODAY. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED
DAMAGING WIND THREATS C0ULD PERSIST WELL AFTER DARK AS ONE OR MORE
MCSS SPREAD ENEWD OVERNIGHT ACROSS MORE OF WRN TX AND THE SRN HIGH
PLAINS.

...CNTRL PLAINS...
FARTHER NORTH...A SEPARATE AREA OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS PORTIONS OF FAR NERN CO...KS AND SRN NEB LATER THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT. WEAK SURFACE LOW CENTER IS FORECAST TO PERSIST OVER
SERN CO DURING THE PERIOD...ALONG WRN EXTENT OF STALLED SURFACE
FRONT EXTENDING EWD ACROSS NRN KS THIS MORNING. SOUTH OF THIS
FRONT...AND EAST OF WEAK SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING SWD ALONG THE HIGH
PLAINS...AIR MASS WILL REMAIN QUITE MOIST WITH
SURFACE DEW POINTS INCREASING INTO THE LOWER 60S. HIGH BASED
CONVECTION WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ALONG AND JUST EAST OF HIGHER TERRAIN
OF NRN CO/FAR SRN WY AND SPREAD EWD THROUGH THE EVENING/OVERNIGHT.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR EWD ALONG NOSE OF INCREASING SLY LLJ
TONIGHT. MUCAPE OF 1500 J/KG AND EFFECTIVE SHEAR AOA 40 KTS WILL BE
FAVORABLE FOR ELEVATED SUPERCELLS AND ORGANIZED CLUSTERS CAPABLE OF
LARGE HAIL.

WAYFARING MAP: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/edit/60572
 
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500 mb trough hangs back pretty far west, surface low forming in e NM. w TX is pretty clouded over. NM will destabilize fastest today. Possibly an outflow boundary from this morning's activity will setup along the NM/TX border. Initial target for this morning: Portales, NM
 
After looking at the 12Z data, I'm staying in Amarillo. Going back to bed now.
 
Gonna leave Lawrence and head out to Dodge City, KS. Will check out the 18Z data when I get there. If the 15 Z data comes out I'll readjust on the way to Dodge if necessary.
 
Come on Matt I am still broke from the last chase case you put up for buying all those steaks.Put me in Wichita I am not going know where near Amarillo and the Big Texan!lol
 
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