11-10-08 Severe weather recap

November 11th, 2008 Severe weather recap

Total Miles- 151 miles
Total Storms- 1
Tornadoes-0
Hail- couple pea size hail stones

Wall cloud- One very ragged one that was quickly demolished by outflow
Damage- None

Max Wind Gust-36 mph inflow and 41 outflow recorded by Interceptor

Very interesting chase as things during the morning seemed to only get better to end up as a bust. The majority of Texoma had a slight risk with a greater risk of severe weather to the southeast of the area. By 11am the warm front continued to very slowly work it way north as a 700mb dryslot was quickly racing northeast across the area as skies become partly sunny. Then by 1pm a couple isolated showers started to develop just south of the warm front and in front of the dryline was slowly pressing east. Here is the radar view and SPC outlook as we headed towards the cell from the station at 1pm. A tornado Watch was also issued for our southern counties marked in a red box on the radar below.

As we headed towards this cell to our southwest the weather conditions changed greatly as we went from cloudy with temps. in the upper 50s to temps to near 70 degrees. Once we arrived and got into position to watch the storm just east of Devol on highway 70. The storm started to intensify within ten minutes as a severe t'storm warning was issued at 1:39pm. We're at the location of the white circle just northeast of the storm. Nickel to Quarter Size hail was reported to our due west around 1:50pm.

At 2:15pm I did a call-in on air as we were on the air doing severe weather coverage. However at this time the storm had crossed the warm front and become outflow dominant. Then we decided to head south towards Wichita Falls and caught this last attempt to organize.

We then headed south on highway 281 south of Wichita Falls into Archer County. Where we parked and looked to the west at the dryline about 50miles to the west. Hoping with all the sunshine, temperatures in the lower 70s and dewpoints in the lower 60s. That more severe thunderstorms would fire up and take advantage of the decent helicity values. Well the cap was to strong and the forecasted shortwave was slower in coming out and was less negatively tilted as advertised. So we headed back to the station at end the chase by around 5pm.