16 May 2015 / Supercells and Tornado – Red River Valley

Thunderstorm development began over the Texas Panhandle and Texas South Plains before I left.  Morning storms had stabilized the environment across northwest Oklahoma.  What was a rather large target area the night before, became fairly concentrated over southwest Oklahoma.  I had made it to near Clinton when the first tornado warnings were issued in the Texas Panhandle.  I was a long way off, but the first warned storm seemed like a good initial target.  When I reached Elk City just before 3 pm, things had become messy around the storms near Shamrock, Texas and a county or so to the southwest of there.  I didn’t even take the time to look at those storms and turned south on Highway 30.  I told Doug Speheger that if nothing else, I just needed to get however far enough south that it took for storms to remain discrete.

I stopped around 4:15 pm in the far southwest corner of the state and observed a small supercell that was near Dodson, Texas.  It didn’t hold my interest very long and I considered waiting for another storm that was near Childress.  That plan was tossed for an impressive storm that had formed to the southwest of Quanah, Texas.

I crossed the Red River and entered the northern edge of the core of the Quanah storm when I reached Highway 287.  The next six or seven miles was a little nerve wrecking as the hail size started to increase.  I expected some hail, but not what ended up falling.  Once again, the glass angel was riding with me and I managed to keep all my glass intact despite being bombed with hail the size of baseballs.  I pulled away from the core in Quanah and continued to Chillicothe where I turned north.  There was a period of zig-zagging northeast through Odell before I made my first stop.  From just east of Odell I could see a nicely structured supercell to the northwest.  Radar showed that rotation was increasing, and I knew I had decent road options after I crossed back into Oklahoma.
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Over the next 20 minutes, the storm evolved into an incredible supercell and began producing a tornado near the Red River.  I didn’t start seeing the tornado until 5:42 pm.  It spent most of its life obscured some by rain and blowing dust.  I had an excellent viewing advantage a few miles northeast of Elmer – until hail started falling again.  I was surprised to be getting any hail at all, but really surprised at the size.  By the time I got rolling east, the hail had increased once again to baseball size.  The glass angel must have taken a break because one stone hit at the edge of the glass and cracked a good part of the passenger side windshield.  I moved to just west of Tipton and finished my viewing of the tornado as it passed to the northwest of the town.  The tornado became more rain-wrapped and traffic was heavy, so the decision was made to head south to the next supercell.

I arrived just west of Grandfield around 7 pm and observed a nice looking supercell storm as it approach from the southwest.  This storm became less impressive visually as it passed north of Devol, and I decided to change storms once again.

I crossed the Red River again and stopped a few miles west of Sheppard Air Force Base to view a pretty supercell near Iowa Park, Texas.  This storm started steadily downhill just after 8 pm.  I called it a day and started the crawl back north on I-44 through about 40 miles of torrential rainfall.