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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 18:22 Written by Roger Hill

2008

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April 17th didn't hold high promise to me. Storms seemed they would form and become undercut by the advancing front. One such storm did just that, developing west of Throckmorton, TX as the front surged south of it. However, it managed to get decent air and right turn, pulling the frontal boundary into the updraft. This storm had rapid rotation in the notch as scud and a tail cloud formed, streaming in from the east, as the rear flank core surged around the updraft. There "could" have been something buried in the rain and baseball sized hail, but we weren't punching the core to find out. The second storm had tornado warnings west of Fort Worth, TX, and by the time we got to it, it also became quite HP, eventually lining out as numerous storms formed, merging into a line. Click on the thumbnail for a larger photo. ENJOY!

Large area of mamatus under the anvil of the first supercell near Chico, TX.	Looking west from Chico, TX. Nice inflow band, HP structure and wall cloud.
A bit tighter shot of the same storm.	Moments later as the lowering became better defined. There was STRONG rotation here.
Rear flank core surges east, cutting off our view into the notch.	Time to get out of town as this core was loaded with 2" diameter hail!
Near White Settlement, on the west side of Fort Worth. Storm was quite HP and very electrified.	Large lowering in what was left of the notch.
Storm was lining out.	Shelf cloud approaches as did extreme quantities of hail to golfball sized!