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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 23:56 Written by Roger Hill

2005

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This was a tough day for me. It looked like a potential for a tornado outbreak near the Red River that ended up never materializing. Surface moisture was shallow and mixing lowered dewpoints and allowed storms to be high based and outflow dominant quickly. There was a tornado on the storm we were on, but we never had great visibility of it. This was a MONSTER spiraling high precipitation supercell that was the most electrified storm this year so far. We intercepted it north of Paducah, TX and stayed with it all the way to Throckmorton.

Check out the photos:

Our supercell develops and gets a wall cloud, but is already outflow dominant.	Alister Chapman holds a wind instrument to see measure the 57 MPH gusts of inflow into this monster.
One of MANY CGs with this storm. It was averaging about 10-15 per minute at this point.	Another CG strike with other electrical discharges coming out around the main bolt.
Look close into the center of the core and you can make out what appears to be a tornado. We needed to be south of it to see it clearer. Other chasers reported a tornado at this time viewing from the south.	Beautiful HP stack of plates.
North of Throckmorton, you can see the eastern meso formation here.	Funny little funnel out of a towering cumulus.

Our supercell develops and gets a wall cloud, but is already outflow dominant.	Alister Chapman holds a wind instrument to see measure the 57 MPH gusts of inflow into this monster.
One of MANY CGs with this storm. It was averaging about 10-15 per minute at this point.	Another CG strike with other electrical discharges coming out around the main bolt.
Look close into the center of the core and you can make out what appears to be a tornado. We needed to be south of it to see it clearer. Other chasers reported a tornado at this time viewing from the south.	Beautiful HP stack of plates.
North of Throckmorton, you can see the eastern meso formation here.	Funny little funnel out of a towering cumulus.