Category: Extreme Weather

Real quick post, since I’ve got to get out the door.

Chasing today northeast of Lubbock, Texas.  Quick synopsis: we have a low in the Texas Panhandle between Lubbock and Amarillo, with a boundary extending off to the east, and a drylline extending back to the south/southwest.  While temperatures across the area are at or around 100F, dewpoints in that area have managed to stay in the upper 50s F.  Towers are already building in that general vicinity, and while wind profiles throughout the atmosphere aren’t as strong as I’d like, there is significant directional shear.  While I’m expecting mainly high-based storms with hail and high wind potential, a tornado/landspout or two isn’t out of the question, given the directional shear and boundaries in the area.

The LIVE ChaseCam will be active here within the next hour or two.

So earlier today I looked at things, though the potential was at least a little better than yesterday for a supercell in the SE TX Panhandle, but elected to save the gas and stay home and get some much needed work done on some other paying projects. Believe it or not, my target WAS actually Clarendon, because of a NW to SE boundary across there and the more backed surface winds.

A little later, some stuff started popping up around home area, and I decided the decision was a good once, because I might have to go out and chase for the TV Station. Turned out to be nothing but summer thundershowers, which had the nice effect of cooling it off here at my home, down now to 92F from 104F earlier!

Meanwhile, I am watching the big honkin’ supercell up by Clarendon with a wicked hook on it (in the radar image above), probably dropped at least one tornado already and appears to be cycling…and I would have been there. 🙁 I know Steve went NE, I hope maybe Jason is on the storm so I can at least see some pics later. If you are Jason, when you read this…you need a streaming cam man!

Meanwhile I sit and watch and listen to the fire department run on lightning started grass fires in the area. *sigh*