26 April 2011 Chase Summary & Images -- Northern Texas Panhandle (Part 1)
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Mon, 16 May 2011 10:23:31 -0500
26 April 2011 Chase Summary & Images -- Northern Texas Panhandle (Part 1)
Summary & Images (part 1)
This was a solo chase while I was on my 10pm to 6am shifts. I knew
this was going to be an early show as far as storm initiation was
concerned, and given the chase target was a little more than two hours
from Dodge City, I decided to make a go of it. Very cool temperatures
aloft and marginal moisture of 45 degree dewpoints would yield about
800 to 1200 J/kg SBCAPE. I targeted the area around Spearman, TX.
The first storm I intercepted was one which formed to my southwest
between Stinnett and Spearman. Unfortunately, this storm was moving
east-northeast through the desolate ranch land of eastern Hutchinson
and Roberts County. I had to drive all the way east to Hwy 70 before
heading south for an intercept. I waited on the storm in northern
Roberts County near the Canadian River. I then followed the storm
southeast along Hwy 283. The sequence of images shown here are of the
storm during this portion of the chase through Roberts County:

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#3
(click on thumbnails for pop-up of larger images)