West Texas tornadoes – June 11, 2005

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Our thoughts that the day might turn out to be a “day before the day” event came true.  A strong shortwave was not expected to impact the southern plains until the 12th, but enough instability, low level focus and modest wind shear was able to produce a small area of supercells near and south of Amarillo, TX.  I picked up Dave Dowell in Weatherford, OK and continued west into the panhandle.

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We targeted a storm northeast of Tulia that had a radar look of becoming the dominant storm.  We could see the wall cloud taking shape as we approached.  Taking a position west of Vigo Park, it became apparent that the wall cloud had fairly strong rotation.  The first tornado was a weak tornado that formed with an occluded mesocyclone to our west northwest.  It was hard to believe that it was possible to get a tornado under such a small amount of cloud mass.  The second was made up of brief condensation wisps under a very low bowl shaped wall cloud.  The third tornado lasted a couple of minutes and appeared to be the strongest of the group.

Starting home, we drove through the core of the storm that was located over the canyon area to the northeast of Wayside.  We got to experience a period of hail larger than golfballs and then took time to shoot some lightning near I-40.

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