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The
initial convection near Walsh, CO was very linear and shallow in nature.
I decided to head south away from this to the OK/TX Panhandle region.
South of Boise City, OK, I saw a modest mammatus field overhead. |
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Upon
entering the TX Panhandle, a supercell was identified to my west in Dallam
Cty. Here it is to the north after repositioning. Oddly, the
only NOAA transmitter out here was from the Albuquerque office so I had
to rely on the few local radio stations for updates. Thanks to Phil
K. for the TVS update! |
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Here
was a distant convergence axis to the NE likely enhanced from overnight convective boundaries. |
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Updraft
core with inflow/beaver's tail and a wall cloud. |
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Another shot
with the vault on the right and laminar inflow. Constant thunder
was occurring for most of this time in the FFD and anvil. |
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Wet RFD and HP
structure to the NNW. |
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Decided to get
closer to the eroding core, but this supercell was favoring outflow by
this point. A couple of quarter sized stones were being kicked out
here. |
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I had to punch
the previous storm's core to get around to another supercell to the west
in NM (very limited roads). I ended up passing through the new supercell's
FFD with only some minor hail encountered. This new cell had a TVS
and here is its wall cloud. |
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Looking NE |
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Very nice non-rotating wall and tail cloud
over the barren NM terrain. |
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'Nuff said! |
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Headed south to see the forward flank
updraft become linear. Decided to head to Amarillo for a motel and
cursed myself for passing on the other storms just to my south (later became
tornadic near Cannon AFB!). |