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March
23rd
was a great day in the high plains of New Mexico. Nothing better than
chasing beautiful tornadic supercells in March! Simon witnessed 2 tornadoes
on a long-lived supercell, which tracked NNE along the NM/TX border.
March
28th
was a HUGE day for storm chasers; strong tornadic supercells developed
from the Texas Panhandle to South Dakota. Wedge tornadoes were reported
in TX, OK, KS, NE, and CO! Tom, Anna, and Simon witnessed 2 tornadoes
during the evening and nighttime hours on a violent supercell in the
eastern TX Panhandle.
April
13th
looked 'Big', but it looked big early in the afternoon across NW TX.
Many forecasters were focused on Central and Eastern Texas for violent
tornadic supercells. A supercell early in the afternoon did produce
a wedge tornado near Seymour, TX, which Simon briefly witnessed. Simon
then got really lucky and witnessed a tornado develope on the Southwest
side of Fort Worth, TX from what seemed to be merely a squall line,
but actually the line had broken into individual supercells!
April
23rd
was an interesting day; supercells developed along a retreating warm
fron in western Kansas and along a differential heating boundary across
the eastern TX Panhandle. An LP Supercell, which developed off the dryline
and shortly died, drew many chasers deep into the Panhandle away from
the tornadic supercells in Kansas. Simon and Mark witnessed 4-5 tornadoes
on this day.
April
24th
was expected to produce a tornado outbreak, which it did in the cold-core
setup across eastern CO, but not where many forecasters expected. Instead,
a tail-end-charley late-day tornadic supercell produced several weak
tornadoes, which some vehicles passed through with no damage including
the TIV seen on the Storm Chasers TV series on the Discovery Channel.
Funny, because normal cars were easily driving through the weak tornado,
so no one needed the TIV to survive. Jim, Simon and Mark witnessed the
tornadoes produced by this little storm.
May
4th
was a very interesting day, a strong CAP and dry air mixing ahead of
the dryline in KS kept Simon south along the better moisture gradient
along the dryline in NW OK, which proved to his advantage as he witnessed
a beautiful tornadic supercell that produced a tornado, which resembled
the twister on the classic movie 'Wizard of Oz'. Unfortunately, later
that night the retreating dryline produced a tornadic supercell, which
produced an EF5 (F5) tornado that annihilated the town of Greensburg,
KS.
June
6th took Simon and Anna to South Dakota where
they witnessed a beautiful supercell and tornado over the Badlands almost
directly over the same area Simon witnessed a tornado 2 years before
on June 7th, 2005! The supercell became outflow dominant and raced across
South Dakota as an MCC, which then developed into a multi-state squall
line.
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