4-22-10 Chase #2 Summary

Chase #2 of the Season Summary- Success

A Slight risk eventually become a moderate for our area by the 20z update from SPC. So Finally a decent setup and it lived up to it's billing as our first intersect of a tornado of the year. Although be it several miles away it was the best we could do with the lack of roads. It also didn't help that the beast was in the middle of no where cruising at less than 10 mph at times.

My Co-Anchor on Good Morning Texoma, Lindsay Vocht and I went west as my normal chase partner Oliver was on vacation. It was also Lindsay's first chasing experience and I was dealing with a brand new laptop. So we definitely got off to a bumpy start as my laptop was not liking my Verizon wireless card. Thankfully by time the storms got going we were able to fix the problems and headed southwest to Childress. Which was my original chase target since Tuesday of that week. So I was pleased that my forecast was verifying.

Once we arrived in Childress it was evident that this supercell was really getting its act together so we went after it in Motley county. Which at this time the storm went tornado warned and we arrived about ten minutes later. A large wall cloud and tornado was easily recognizable in the distance however was quickly cover up by rain. Over the next two hours we continued to watch this beast travel northeast at first at 25mph then slowly down to less than 10mph.  This storm produced a large rain-wrapped tornado that was reported by spotters southwest of Cee Vee. This storm continued to produce one or more tornadoes as it tracked to the southeast of Cee Vee between 7:30 and 8:40 pm.
Here is rough edit of some of the better video we got on this storm.

Lindsay put together a funny summary of our chasing adventure...Enjoy!

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Here is a report from the NWS-Lubbock about this Tornado Supercell Click Here-Report

Here is a great write up from the West Texas Mesonet of storm damage and estimate of the tornado. Click Here-TORNADO DAMAGE

 

Miles Travels- 382   (566 for the year)
Tornadoes Witnessed- One Large Wedge
Largest Hail- Quarter Size (1 inch)
High Winds- est. 40 mph

Full List of Storm Reports for 4-22-10 Click Here