April 23 Summary
Chased with John Massura and Jon Racy into the eastern TX panhandle on Monday, April 23. As feared late the previous night/early that morning, limited large scale forcing and weak surface convergence lead to a limited number of storms in the TX panhandle. We ended up on a supercell (classic->LP) that developed near I-40 south of Panhandle and White Deer, TX. Although it looked picturesque for about an hour (and was tornado warned on by NWS Amarillo), the supercell progressively sheared apart as it moved north-northeast between White Deer and Pampa before dark. As a side note, all of this was after running my car battery down when we stopped for gas/food in Shamrock, TX! A couple of sample images:
Approaching the supercell from the east-northeast, as we are about to drive beneath a pronounced inflow tail (left side foreground). Storm already tornado warned on by NWS Amarillo. Taken at 641 pm.
LP supercell shearing apart as we sit just southwest of Pampa, TX. Taken at 710 pm.
Approaching the supercell from the east-northeast, as we are about to drive beneath a pronounced inflow tail (left side foreground). Storm already tornado warned on by NWS Amarillo. Taken at 641 pm.
LP supercell shearing apart as we sit just southwest of Pampa, TX. Taken at 710 pm.
posted by Jared Guyer at 4:08 PM
2 Comments:
That's it. Next time we go chasing, I'm bringing an extra car battery. And an alternator.
Nice pics, Guyer! Particularly nice is the low-level inflow band and bowl-shaped updraft base in the first photo. Sorry to hear about the battery issues... Hopefully that didn't set you back too much chase-time.
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