Retitled EWG tornado chase thread- go to page 2!

[Ed Mahmoud]

Look at the reflectivity- I believe the baseball sized hail...

NWUS54 KFWD 082309
LSRFWD

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
608 PM CDT FRI MAY 08 2009

..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0603 PM HAIL 16 ESE BRECKENRIDGE 32.67N 98.66W
05/08/2009 E2.75 INCH STEPHENS TX AMATEUR RADIO

HAM REPORTS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5S OF CADDO.

[srainhoutx]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
721 PM CDT FRI MAY 08 2009

..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0720 PM HAIL RISING STAR 32.10N 98.97W
05/08/2009 E4.00 INCH EASTLAND TX BROADCAST MEDIA

[Ed Mahmoud]

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
809 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 2009

TXC049-090130-
/O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-090509T0130Z/
BROWN TX-
809 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BROWN COUNTY...

AT 808 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EARLY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL
BROWN COUNTY.

[brunota2003]

From Brownwood, TX (cell is currently tornado warned):

D
a
t
e Time
(cdt) Wind
(mph) Vis.
(mi.) Weather Sky Cond. Temperature (ºF) Pressure Precipitation (in.)
Air Dwpt 6 hour altimeter
(in.) sea level
(mb) 1 hr 3 hr 6 hr
Max. Min.
08 20:15 E 53 G 69 0.15 Thunderstorm Heavy Rain and Windy OVC002 72 72 29.71 NA
08 19:55 N 44 G 60 1.00 Thunderstorm Light Rain and Windy BKN048 BKN060 OVC080 81 72 29.64 NA
08 19:35 SE 24 G 38 9.00 Thunderstorm and Breezy CLR 91 70 29.51 NA
08 19:15 SE 21 G 31 10.00 Thunderstorm in Vicinity and Breezy CLR 91 70 29.57 NA
08 18:55 SE 18 G 26 10.00 Thunderstorm in Vicinity CLR 91 70 29.58 NA
08 18:35 SE 18 G 26 10.00 Fair CLR 93 72 29.59 NA
08 18:15 SE 12 G 26 10.00 Thunderstorm in Vicinity CLR 93 72 29.60 NA

[Ed Mahmoud]

EWG shoukd have driven to Texas.



It is different down here, my family came when I was a teenager from NY.


Massapequa to Harwichport, MA- 5, 6 hours, to cover 200 miles. I-95 in Connecticut- 48 toll booths. Maybe I exaggerate, a little.


But I drove, 2 weeks ago, DWH to SPS in 6 hours. Some luck, Texas Highway 6, from the land time forgot, to Waco, where it is just a 2 lane divided highway, maybe two cars in 100 miles. 80 or 90 mpg easy. 287, from near Texas Motor Speedway to Wichita Falls, 90 mph easy. Once, in Clay County, Texas DPS, ie, highway patrol, nails me 80 in a 70, but 65 at night. I said, but I was keeping it under 10 over. DPS says, yeah, its 70 mph day, but 80 mph at night is too fast, its 65 mph.


And he gave me a written warning to slow down!!!!!

No ticket.


No, I did get busted, 73 in a 65 by Wichita Falls bike cops, on US 82, a year later, daytime, in a quota massacre, another car pulled over 200 feet away a minute later by another moto-cop.

That was "Comedy Defensive Driving". No comedy at all. Laugh Stop on TX 249 near 1960. Willowbrook. AA dude, clean and sober for a decade. But not funny. At all.


But technically, a spotless record in almost 30 years of driving.

[somethingfunny]

EWG shoukd have driven to Texas.



It is different down here, my family came when I was a teenager from NY.


Massapequa to Harwichport, MA- 5, 6 hours, to cover 200 miles. I-95 in Connecticut- 48 toll booths. Maybe I exaggerate, a little.


But I drove, 2 weeks ago, DWH to SPS in 6 hours. Some luck, Texas Highway 6, from the land time forgot, to Waco, where it is just a 2 lane divided highway, maybe two cars in 100 miles. 80 or 90 mpg easy. 287, from near Texas Motor Speedway to Wichita Falls, 90 mph easy. Once, in Clay County, Texas DPS, ie, highway patrol, nails me 80 in a 70, but 65 at night. I said, but I was keeping it under 10 over. DPS says, yeah, its 70 mph day, but 80 mph at night is too fast, its 65 mph.


And he gave me a written warning to slow down!!!!!

No ticket.


No, I did get busted, 73 in a 65 by Wichita Falls bike cops, on US 82, a year later, daytime, in a quota massacre, another car pulled over 200 feet away a minute later by another moto-cop.

That was "Comedy Defensive Driving". No comedy at all. Laugh Stop on TX 249 near 1960. Willowbrook. AA dude, clean and sober for a decade. But not funny. At all.


But technically, a spotless record in almost 30 years of driving.

Heh. On the day I drove to Enid, Oklahoma to snowchase (http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=103673&start=1401) I had three hours to get from Enid to Denison, TX in time for work. I made it, but I'm not going to tell you how fast I went down I-35. Let's say that an average of 70mph through downtown OKC was the slowest I travelled the entire way. Did not see ONE cop in the entire state. Must have been my lucky day.

Back to weather though, I'd say you were wise not to chase today, EWG. Here in Texoma I'm sitting under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but the tornadoes never really got spinning down this way.

[Ed Mahmoud]

DOUBLE POST FROM VORTEX 2 THREAD ALERT!!!!!




Tomorrow, while there should be severe weather all the way to near Chicago, slower moving storms, and proximity to today's chasing in SW Oklahoma or the Eastern Texas Panhandle, suggests near home, OUN/OKC may be the spot for tornadic storms developing very late afternoon.


NAM shows intense precip amounts in OKC area in 3 hour period between 7 pm and 10 pm.

Scary looking sounding per NAM. And the mid level instability and lapse rates implied by a Total Total over 60 suggests very large hail, windshield and roof destroyers, also very possible.

If GFS is similar, I'd expand MODERATE RISK on SWODY2 (as is sort of hinted at in early morning SWODY2) down into Oklahoma.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Yeah, tomorrow looks very interesting around these parts. Unfortunately my schedule is also very busy, so I probably will not be able to do any serious chasing...except for perhaps some of the more local cells.

[Ed Mahmoud]

GFS precip fields seem to suggest more of a QLCS, but the forecast sounding, well, how often do you see an EHI over 7?