David Drummond on April 28th, 2009

Nice setup in place for this afternoon/evening in eastern New Mexico, southwest Texas and the Texas South Plains.  Not one of those highly advertised severe events, but rather one of those days that can produce some real surprises.  While winds speed shear isn’t crazy, it’s sufficient, but even more importantly is the directional shear, which [...]

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David Drummond on April 28th, 2009

Saturday ended up with a big chaser convergence in Shamrock, TX meeting old friends while we sat around waiting for things to fire off.  Got on the first storm that fired off the triple point, that was very high based, but eventually caught us by surprise with a weak tornado spinning up in the field [...]

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