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