4-22-10 REPORT

Bri Winkler and I stayed with Jay McCoy near the Groom-Alanreed area through the first half of the chase. Got a couple of tornadoes along with many funnels to the SW of I-40 and Hwy 70 right after meeting Lanny Dean and Jeff Smith. Was great to finally meet up with those guys, and what a day to do it! Then headed east, and then north of Alanreed and got great structure, but never saw a tornado. Then headed back east and sat just south of Lake Mclellan. Saw another brief tornado and lots of funnels along with 10 million other chasers. I briefly met Dick McGowan there and saw the Dominator. Said a quick hi to Reed and Joel and then we had to take off as the cell was starting to right turn on us with rotation wrapping up in rain just to our west/northwest. We actually had to take shelter at the Alanreed rest stop because I didn't want to chance being caught in a rain wrapped tornado.

All in all a great chase with lots of action. It was great to finally meet some of the guys on here. Lanny and Jeff are truly class acts, and it was great to be surrounded by great storms and new friends. Now to the photos:

PHOTO 1--Funnel looking SW from I-40 and Hwy. 70
PHOTO 2--Tornado from same location as photo 1
PHOTO 3--Nice structure north of Alanreed looking west
PHOTO 4--Meteorologist Bri Winkler next to the Dominator!
PHOTO 5--The "Dominator" Dominating in the TX Panhandle
PHOTO 6--One of the many funnels we saw
PHOTO 7--Lanny Dean and his chase tour company scoring big in the TX Panhandle

4-21-10 REPORT

Decided to chase the S/SE TX Panhandle today and met up with Jay McCoy in Tulia to look at data for a while. My chase partner today was Bri Winkler, the morning Met at the station I chase for. We looked at data and decided to head toward Plainview since a storm had already gone up to our south. It looked pretty good, but lost strength after a while. We made our way towards the Floydada area where another storm to the NE looked really good visually. We had some really nice structure with a wall cloud, but it soon got wrapped in rain. We then made our way north of Matador where we saw a pretty nice LP structured cell to our west, and a nice supercell to our southeast. It was starting to get dark, so we made our way home. All in all, a nice chase tease to get ready for today. Now to the photos:

FLOODING IN AND AROUND SILVERTON, TX

I went out yesterday and got some flooding video near Silverton, TX. That area has received 6-8 inches of rain in the last 3 days which made for some good video. Enjoy!

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4/13/10 REPORT

I spent most of my energy battling winds of 40-50 mph on the way to Boise City, OK today. I hung around Boise City for a while and saw the convection initiating way to my SW. I headed down to Stratford and then eventually to Dalhart. I ate in Dalhart and then went west about 15 or 20 miles and found a spot to start taking photos of a spectacular sunset. This sunset was worth the price of admission! I haven't photographed a sunset this amazing in a very, very long time. I stuck around for a while as the storm to my SW put on a decent lightning show towards dark. It kept it's act together for a while, but eventually petered out. I traveled about 300 miles today with sunset photos to show for, but I think it was worth it. Maybe Wednesday will be a better day for storms around the area.

4/11/10 CHASE REPORT

Well, it was good to finally get out of the house to chase for the first time since March 8th. I left Amarillo around 2 and fiddled around with convection around Tulia for a while but didn't really see much except for rain and a lot of CG's. Headed east out of Tulia and got onto some better storms that were going up north of Silverton. I initially headed south out of Turkey for a few minutes, but decided to get on the stronger storms between Turkey and Brice. I got about 6 miles south of Brice on Hwy. 70 and thought I might get into some pretty good sized hail since the VIL was off the chart. I think the VIL at times approached 70-80, but only small and very sporadic hail ever occurred in the area I was located. I was very surprised to say the least as I was getting ready for a hail barrage!

It was a nice drive on the way back to Amarillo as I got some nice pics of the sunset and some mammatus from the decaying anvils. All in all, a nice chase with hopes of many more to come!






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