5-12-10 REPORT

I got a late start to the day and tried to catch the cells coming from the Paducah Quanah TX area heading into Altus, OK. I wasn't able to succeed in that attempt and headed back west to get on the cells in the SE TX Panhandle near Memphis. Got a pretty good wall cloud with some rotation which tried to produce a tornado a couple of times and failed.

Saw Steve Miller TX in his new vehicle and we talked a few minutes. We headed towards Hollis, OK after a tornado warned cell. I headed north of Hollis and had a few attempts at wall clouds, but the storm just never did it for me. It looked really good nonetheless. Piddled around taking a few photos and saw some vortex2 equipment on the side of the road and decided to take some stills of the equipment with the storms in the background. Headed to Sayre and made the trek back home. No tornadoes today, but it was still a great day of chasing! Now to the photos:

PHOTO #1-Storm south of Memphis, TX
PHOTO#2-Anvil associated with the above image
PHOTO#3-Broad rotation north of Childress, TX looking west
PHOTO#4-Storm north of Hollis, OK
PHOTO#5-Photo north of Reed, OK
PHOTO#6-Small wall cloud north of Reed, OK
PHOTO#7-Another shot north of Reed, OK
PHOTO#8-Near Willow, OK
PHOTO#9-VORTEX2 equipment with storm in background southeast of Sayre, OK
PHOTO#10-Same as above
PHOTO#11-Looking towards Cordell, OK
PHOTO#12-Same as above, but different angle
PHOTO #13-Final shot of VORTEX2 equipment with storm

5-11-10 REPORT

Started off in NW OK near Seiling, but decided to head south to I-40 at Clinton. Saw VORTEX2 in Clinton as I sat at the McDonald's waiting for storms to fire. Storms started going up SW of Cordell. I made my way to Cordell and saw a huge chaser convergence with VORTEX2, the TIV and lots of chasers. I met Ryan McGinnis and Kate Pfeister and we chatted for a while before parting ways.

The storm SW of Cordell died out but a new storm was forming to the NW. I made my way up SE of Seiling and stopped to chat with a friend. As I was chatting, the Weather Channel pulled up behind my vehicle and started doing video segments with Dr. Greg Forbes and Mike Bettes. I took a few still shots and some video and chatted with them for a while. I then made my way closer to the storm that eventually became tornado warned. It was a nice LP south of Woodward that had incredible structure. I saw Warren Faidley and pulled up and chatted while taking in the awesome scene. It was a great day of meeting new people and seeing old friends. I never get tired of that. Storms are cool, but seeing and meeting new friends is awesome!

MAYBE SOME ACTION AROUND MOTHERS DAY

Well, after the March 22nd tornadofest, it's been relatively quiet around the southern plains. Of course the southeast has been pummeled with severe weather the last few days with mulitple tornado outbreaks in that area.

Now, around western, OK or the eastern TX Panhandle, it looks like it might ramp up starting this coming weekend around Mothers Day. Of course it's a week out, but I'll definitely keep you posted on any upcoming chases that I venture out on. From now until June 5th, there are only 4 days that I can't chase which are May 12-15th so I should get lots of opportunities to score big on some good chase days. Again, I'll keep you up to date on any chases in the next few days.