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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 January 2010 00:27 Written by Roger Hill

2002

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What an incredible storm this was!! After spending almost too much time east of Childress, we drove northeast and were greeted with this beautiful storm. From a distance it did not look that impressive. But as we approached it from the south, the incredible structure of this HP/classic supercell became obvious. This was a special storm!!! One of the top 10 in my book ever! From the highly striated liberty bell updraft, to the FF tornado it produced, this storm was a force to be dealt with carefully. We drove northeast of Skellytown and ended up northwest of Pampa to get the best view we could. And what a view it was!!!! The FF of this storm was very electrified. The striated updraft had clear evidence of major RFD erosion, and I am afraid it produced a rather large rain wrapped tornado that was just out of vision. As the rain cleared the occluded updraft, a rather large block shaped lowering was visible which could have attested to producing a large tornado that we just couldn't see. Enjoy the photos of this beast. More will be added to the "Gallery" section of my web page as several transparencies came out spectacular!!!

What a sight we were greeted with!!	Liberty bell structure reveals strong rotation.
Very electrified storm!!!	WOW!!!!
Highly striated updraft visible.	WOW again!!!!!
Lightning reveals the incredible rotating beast!!!	Tornado!!! After an occlusion, this tornado forms.
Another shot of this "elephant trunk" tornado.	This was a second tornado, but the still is not conclusive. It had a nice debris cloud.