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David Drummond on April 11th, 2009

I’m not very optimistic about severe weather, particularly tornado chances (SPC has a 5% risk area outlined), especially since current dewpoints are still mostly in the upper 40s in the Permian Basin.  There does appear to be a tongue of elevated moisture at 850mb advecting into the Midland/Odessa area and toward Hobbs, NM.  This is [...]

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David Drummond on March 28th, 2009

Wow, what a week!  After the chase on Wednesday and getting in late I didn’t even get a chance on Thursday morning to do a forecast post because we already had supercells ongoing at 10 AM! Didn’t end up with any big tornadoes on Wednesday. In fact I didn’t even see any, but had a [...]

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