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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:38 Written by Roger Hill

2009

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April 26th had outbreak written all over it. SPC upgraded to High Risk and issued several PDS tornado watch boxes. Problems seemed to start with storm mode as things would develop and become a bit stretched out and eventually linear. By late afternoon a nice pinch point developed along I-40 over the far eastern Texas panhandle. Storms fired, spun quickly and became tornado warned. We intercepted 2 tornadoes near the town of Crawford and we came very very close to the second larger tornado.  Close enough to smell the tornado and feel your ears pop. Click on the link below for a video (beware of LARGE file size!) and the small photos for larger images.

APRIL 26TH ROGER MILLS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TORNADOES (24 MB)

First tornado forms about 2 miles to our west.	Here the first tornado ropes out as a large truncated cone tornado forms to its northeast.
Multivortex tornado increases and comes within about 300 yards of us before we retreat southward.	After we turned around, we were greeted with this magnificent tornado.
Large cone tornado continues across the countryside.	Bit wider shot.
Tornado races off in the distance, still a strong tornado.	Wide shot of the storm, tornado and countryside, looking northeast.