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Stormy night~fixed Pics added

MsSage

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I am sitting here looking out the window waiting on coworkers to call me....
There have been strong storms most of the late afternoon and evening. I went out one time when the wind STOPPED to look around. I saw to the NW what looked like a funnel cloud so I took some pics. WWHHOOO Pretty cool. HA
Things got real windy and I kept seeing police cars with lights on and something just didnt feel right. I decided to get pillows and blankets and climb in the tub. Just as I do I get a text from a coworker asking if I was in a safe place....uumm NO I respond she calls and say there is a tornado going through Texline right now. She said it was big and hidden in rain. I decide to get out and drve into Clayton...as I pull around to get on the highway I see a HUGE funnel cloud moving slow and NE. I go south to the alsups and park.
I just had straight winds for about 10 mins solid. OK OK OK I am ready this to be over.
I hope no one was hurt and it dies down before hitting a bigger town.

I will get the pics loaded tomorrow when I get back from Dalhart.
 

MsSage

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NO problem hmmm need to go back and do spell check. I found a post by a storm chaser who was in the area yesterday. Hope he doesnt come back today.

Incredible and surprise day. Decided to play the NW Tx panhandle from Dalhart up to Clayton and it payed off big time. Caught a number of large stovepipe tornados and a wedge. And the best part I saw maybe 5 chasers the whole day. Ahh the solitude of a nice western Panhandle/east NM supercell.

I and Steve Miller were sitting just SE of Texline watching a cell as it really started to take off. The AMA NWS called us and asked what we saw cause they were showing roation. It wasnt 30 seconds later it produced a funnel that reached about halfway down and remained for about 10 minutes before dissapating. That was about 820pm. I headed into Texline then moved east ona small FM that would curve back north towards hwy54. It then produced a small needle tornado that lasted a few minutes. I followed the cell north all the way to hwy54 just to the west of Felt,Ok. I sat ther watching it for a few minutes as it moved north out of reach for me so I decided it was getting late so I was going to head home. I pulled a uturn and to my SW saw a huge elephant trunk tornado 10-15 miles away. I almost fainted. How long had it been there?? I at ther ansd shot video for about 10 minutes as it grew larger and larger. I then decided to head back south and try and get closer. I made it baout 10 miles south and it was now due west of me and I had some backlighting so I stopped there and watched it drop 3-4 seperate tornados including a multi-vortex wedge while also dropping a nice cone satellite tornado to its north. All the time I was on the phone on air with the local tv station I chase for at times. I filmed about 20 minutes of this before it became too dark and I had to break off. When I did it was still on the ground heading NNE and was at least 1/4 mile wide or more. I then headed back to Texline so I could get back on hwy87 back to amarillo. As I pulled in town I ran into some half dollar hail and the sirens were going off. I hadnt had any data for a while so I had no radar and didnt know what was coming. I drove SE just out of town to get a view and about 1 mile to my SW wa sanother large trunk tornado moving north. You could barely make it out since it was almsot dark now. I tried to get a video shot but it was way too dark and there wasnt much lightning behind it. It missed Texline to the west so I broke off and came home.

All in all at least 5 tornados on a day I only expected maybe a small rope tornado. You usually dont see a large violent tornado in NE new Mexico or NW Tx panhandle with an elevation of 5000ft let alone numerous long tracked tornados.

I know Steve Miller also caught these. I will post video soon as I can edit it and get it loaded on Youtube. I need some serious sleep 1st. Been going since 645am.

Also a huge thank you to Marcus Diaz.. You saved my life bud. I had forgotten my power converter and my video camera battery was almost dead (thought I had charged it but never plugged it in good). If he hadnt loaned me a spare converter my camewra would have been dead and I wouldnt have been able to film any of these tornados. I owe you a dinner!!! PM your number and we will hook up tomorrow so I can return it.
 

MsSage

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These are not the best pics. It was getting dark fast and shoer was playing with my camera last weekend and pushed a bunch of buttons and changed everything.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4636838135/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4636837841/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4637447360/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4636837271/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4636836911/
 

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