{"id":11324,"date":"2014-06-07T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2014-09-17T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T05:52:46","slug":"june-7-2014-matador-tx-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/06\/07\/june-7-2014-matador-tx-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"June 7, 2014 Matador, TX supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 7 was the final chase day for this tour, T5 out of OKC.\u00a0 We would need to finish today’s chase within a reasonable distance from Oklahoma City, and Mother Nature was working with us as the best target area looked to be in the Texas Panhandle, perhaps a little south of Amarillo.\u00a0 Supercells were a very good bet as shear and instability were excellent.\u00a0 Tornado potential did not look too shabby, either.<\/p>\n

We began in Guymon, had lunch at Hodies BBQ in Dalhart, and continued south to Dimmitt.\u00a0 Some towering cumulus bubbled in the Dimmitt and Hart area, but nothing could get going well into the afternoon.\u00a0 Finally, a clump of cumulus shot skyward to our east, near Plainview, around 7 p.m.\u00a0 We blasted east through Plainview to get near the updraft.<\/p>\n

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When we positioned ourselves just south of the updraft base,\u00a0 a wall cloud looked good, was quite low to the ground, and some rotation was evident.\u00a0 It looked like tornado development might be nigh!\u00a0 But, the storm soon attained a more-benign look at low-levels, and it never appeared serious again as far as tornado-making.\u00a0 I think that the primary problem in this regard is that low-level winds were a little more from the ENE than they were from the E or ESE.\u00a0 Low-level inflow into the updraft base may have been contaminated (and cooled) a little as it was streaming in underneath the storm’s precip shield.\u00a0 The image below was taken near Lockney.\u00a0 The wall cloud had a much better look just prior to this picture.<\/p>\n

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The storm first moved east and then curved a bit more to the ESE.\u00a0 Our route east, U.S. 70 from Floydada to Matador, fell off the Caprock and south options were few until Matador.\u00a0 We had to scoot over to Matador before the hail core crossed 70!\u00a0 We made it to Matador and then headed south, with a nice view of the storm’s structure.<\/p>\n

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I was in contact with Kelly Delay, who was trying to get into position by heading SOUTH towards Matador.\u00a0 He wound up with some damage to his vehicle thanks to baseball-sized hail!\u00a0 We must have made it out of Matador with just a few minutes to spare.\u00a0 Since it appeared that tornado potential was very low as the storm came off of the Caprock escarpment, I elected to get south and east for a good look at structure as sunset neared.\u00a0 We went south to Roaring Springs and east to a little place called Dumont, and found a high point with a good view of the supercell.\u00a0 The storm base passed just to our north, the cell weakened, and it was time to head to Clarendon for the night.\u00a0 We stopped one more time on the west side of the cell for a few more images, as the storm seemed to perk up again.<\/p>\n

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