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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 January 2010 00:36 Written by Roger Hill

2002

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All I can say about this storm is OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

Early convection almost destroyed this day. A line of severe thunderstorms developed (totally outflow dominant!!) and produced awful outflow. This outflow was very slow to modify. A triple point was situated southwest of Lubbock and our only hope was for new convection to develop later in the afternoon near the triple point, once the air had a time to modify. A tornado watch was also in effect. Due to the slow modification of the outflow boundary air, this storm could not produce a tornado. If only it had been a few degrees warmer and moister!!!!! Nonetheless, this was probably the prettiest supercell of the year. It started out as a skinny LP storm and morphed into a gorgeous classic that produced 80 mph wind and baseball sized hail. Check out the photos below.

Skinny LP storm struggles to survive.	It starts to get better organized.
Moustache cloud develops.	"Stack of Plates" appearance develops.
Look how sheared this beast is!!! Very tilted!!	Gets even better structurally.
Many landspout like vortices developed.	WOW!!!!!
Ground hugging updraft with many "plates" attests to strong rotation!!!	WOW again!!!!
You can clearly see the erosion of the updraft from RFD in this shot as the updraft takes on a horseshoe appearance.	Baseball sized hail from the storm 15 minutes after it fell.