- 2005 May 12
- © Copyright 2005 Eric Nguyen
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- Chase Area: West Texas
- We were chasing the day before and had to stay the night in Hays,
KS. We woke up a bit late and quickly went south towards LBB where we finally
encountered the Plainview supercell. Storms were developing along an old frontal
boundary and dryline intersection. Softball sized hail was already being reported by
spotters on this storm.
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- Tornadic Supercell - Lone Star, Texas
- We drove on a muddy road and stopped 2 miles north of Lone Star,
TX. The winds picked up significantly from the north and were racing into a rapidly
developing wallcloud which was 1/2 to our south. A weak tornado quickly developed
and luckily was moving northeast. A second area of strong rotation appeared to our
due north moving south, which eventually developed into a larger cone tornado. So we
got out of it's path and went back to a paved road 1/4 to our west. The tornado last
several minutes and quickly got rain wrapped. Since we were in route to get out of
its way, I wasn't able to take stills, however Scott got some good video of it. We
went south on the main paved road that passes Lone Star to the west and re-flanked the
storm.
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- Tornadic Supercell - South Plains, Texas
- We unfortunately didn't go after a new meso that developed and went
to our northeast, as this produced a long lived barrel shaped tornado. Those that
got to witness that tornado got softball sized hail that literally destroyed cars.
We ended up flanking that meso while it was still producing a tornado, however it was rain
wrapped and we didn't know it was a tornado at the time.
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