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April 21, 2007 Texas Panhandle Tornadofest

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Not much can be said about April 21st that hasn't already been said. Decent moisture, great lift, great shear and a strong dryline would spell trouble for the Texas panhandle region. By mid afternoon, many cells tried to form on the dryline and just couldn't get surface based. Finally about 4 PM storms started to become surface based and it did not take long for them to become tornadic. We intercepted a tornadic storm not far from Dumas and a second one near dark southeast of Dumas. Check out the pics below! Click on a small image to view a larger one.

 

 

Supercell gets organized south of Dalhart, TX.

 

Nicely structured storm with vault region, but soon gets undercut by cold outflow from other storms.

 

Supercell with very low rotating wall cloud south of Dumas, TX.

 

Multivortex tornado forms, but remains fairly weak. It lasted for about 5 minutes.

 

New tornado forms near Four Way, TX.

 

Tornado turns into classic wedge as it moves northeast at nearly 50 mph!

 

Tornado is backlit by lightning as it churns across the countryside near Dumas, TX.

 

Cool lightning strike near the tornado!

 

Another tornado forms east of the wedge as the wedge weakens.

 

A new supercell develops and becomes a monster southeast of Dumas, TX.

 

The new supercell produces a nighttime tornado near Sunray, TX. I overexposed this to see if it would turn out.

 

Another overexposed shot of the tornado as it starts to weaken and race northeast.

 

Look closely and you can see a wedge tornado that developed from the same nighttime supercell near Sunray, TX.

 

Damage in Cactus, TX from a different supercell that we did not catch.

 

Significant tornado damage in Cactus. Highway 287 was closed for almost 24 hours.

 

More damage as a semi is overturned.


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