Hey y'all, Marcus Diaz here. Its been a long, yet exciting day for both me and Chris Rice here in the Texas panhandle. He caught 5 tornadoes, and I got 6 today in the area east of Amarillo. We decided from the morning that we'd play the dryline bulge setting up in the central TX panhandle. We were almost tempted to race north towards some tornadic cells in the northern TX panhandle that were about to cross into some really great CAPE values, but we held out ground. The CAPE where we were stationed originally was sitting at 2000 SBCAPE, with great backing winds coliding into the dryline. Storms were popping up along that dryline, but we finally got our small cell that developed about 60 miles to the east of the dryline. The storm went absolutely insane with all the ripe CAPE and great surface winds. This storm produced 2 tornadoes in between Goodnight and Groom, TX in rural Armstrong County. That storm went into some iffy terrain, so we jumped back to a new cell right on its heels. This was the monster of the day. The storm had a solid 65 mph inflow wind. We pursued the storm east on I-40 and quickly saw a needle tornado rope on the outside edge of the wall cloud. Unfortunately the tornado lifted by the time we stopped. We ended up about 2 miles north of Alanreed, TX, where the storm dropped an addition 4, possibly 5 tornadoes!!
Here's my pictures of the 4 tornadoes I took still from:
Twin funnels almost to the ground!
First tornado of the day.
Tornado #2 touched down shortly after, and was on the ground for several minutes.
Chris Rice in front of me watching this roping funnel. We aren't too sure if this funnel ever touched down, so unless I get confirmation we're not calling it a tornado.
Tornado #5 roping out. This tornado had a full condensation funnel prior to me getting this shot.
Tornado #6 all the way down.
Video still of tornado #7
and finally, video still of tornado #8
I'm going to have to go through the footage to see just how many tornadoes we got near Alanreed, but this was defiantely a great day for ANYONE out there chasing. A more detailed report will come soon. For now, Chris Rice is resting in Oklahoma, and is going to be in Kansas tomorrow taking advantage of another great setup. Steve Polley will also be out playing the triple point in NW MO, SE NE, SW IA area. Watch the streams tomorrow at www.stormchaselive.com!!
Here's my pictures of the 4 tornadoes I took still from:
Twin funnels almost to the ground!
First tornado of the day.
Tornado #2 touched down shortly after, and was on the ground for several minutes.
Chris Rice in front of me watching this roping funnel. We aren't too sure if this funnel ever touched down, so unless I get confirmation we're not calling it a tornado.
Tornado #5 roping out. This tornado had a full condensation funnel prior to me getting this shot.
Tornado #6 all the way down.
Video still of tornado #7
and finally, video still of tornado #8
I'm going to have to go through the footage to see just how many tornadoes we got near Alanreed, but this was defiantely a great day for ANYONE out there chasing. A more detailed report will come soon. For now, Chris Rice is resting in Oklahoma, and is going to be in Kansas tomorrow taking advantage of another great setup. Steve Polley will also be out playing the triple point in NW MO, SE NE, SW IA area. Watch the streams tomorrow at www.stormchaselive.com!!
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