{"id":2095,"date":"2009-05-01T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2009-09-17T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:41:22","slug":"may-1-2009-big-country-supercells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/05\/01\/may-1-2009-big-country-supercells\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, 2009  Big Country Supercells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7335a\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_funston_tx_7335a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2294 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_funston_tx_7335a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7335a\" width=\"136\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>On <strong>May 1<\/strong> we targeted northwest TX, and dropped south to Vernon for lunch.\u00a0 Storm towers went up kind of early to our southwest, in Knox County, and we got on the storm relatively early.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t early enough, though.\u00a0 As we entered Knox City from the north, a really nice narrow funnel cloud was hanging out of the updraft base to our west!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even have my camera stuff ready yet!\u00a0 I managed to shoot some video of the funnel with Bob\u2019s camcorder as we went into Knox City.\u00a0 The funnel was halfway to the ground, and other observers confirmed that this was indeed a tornado.\u00a0 It dissipated as we went a little west of Knox City to get closer.\u00a0 The supercell that caused this tornado trekked southeastward towards Stamford and had several wall clouds thereafter, but no decent funnel clouds (or tornadoes). \u00a0 The fourth image below shows a nice, wet RFD.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7116\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2287 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7116.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7116\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7289\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2288 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7289.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7289\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7292\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2289 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7292.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7292\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7295\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2290 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7295.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7295\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7296\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7296.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2291 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7296.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7296\" width=\"166\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7303a\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7303a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2292 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7303a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7303a\" width=\"149\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_haskell_tx_7307\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2293 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_haskell_tx_7307.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_haskell_tx_7307\" width=\"149\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The storm died quickly at 6 p.m.\u00a0 We considered going north to the Baylor County storm, but it looked a little sick, too.\u00a0 I elected to target some new weak cells a couple of counties to the west.\u00a0 We stopped about 20 miles north of Abilene at sunset, and these cells really started to strengthen after dark.\u00a0 Our group had about five tripods set up and we managed to get some decent lightning and structure shots.\u00a0 One cell started dropping southeast towards our location and became tornado warned.\u00a0 Lightning got too close and we scurried west to get out of the way.\u00a0 This was a very satisfying chase day!\u00a0 It was just a bit of a bummer that we were maybe five minutes late in order to get a good look at the tornado.\u00a0 That Knox County storm must have gone from first radar-echo blip to a tornado in 45 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7192\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2098 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7192.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7192\" width=\"74\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7193\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2099 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7193.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7193\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7198\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7198.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2101 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7198.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7198\" width=\"162\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7351\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2102 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/090501_funston_tx_7351.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7351\" width=\"167\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"090501_funston_tx_7196a\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2095]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_funston_tx_7196a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2295 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090501_funston_tx_7196a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090501_funston_tx_7196a\" width=\"81\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1 we targeted northwest TX, and dropped south to Vernon for lunch.\u00a0 Storm towers went up kind of early to our southwest, in&#8230;&nbsp;<a 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