{"id":2257,"date":"2009-04-25T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-01-11T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:33:29","slug":"april-25-2009-western-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/04\/25\/april-25-2009-western-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"April 25, 2009  Cordell, OK marginal severe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day began on the NM\/AZ border along I-40, at a rest area where a train passes every 15 minutes and blasts its horn for 20 seconds as it passes a road crossing just a stone&#8217;s throw from the rest area parking lot.\u00a0 No wonder no one was there when we pulled in around 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We easily made it to the eastern Texas Panhandle for mid-afternoon convection.\u00a0\u00a0 The first cell for us drifted from about Groom, TX, to Reydon, OK, but was high-based and unimpressive.\u00a0 We abandoned that for a good-looking cell to the south, near Cordell, OK.\u00a0 It had a good spaceship lookat dusk and was very pretty, but high-based too, with little tornado potential.\u00a0 I shot a ton of stills and missed the few really nice CGs with the storm.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"090425_nmroad_7201\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2257]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_nmroad_7201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2258 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_nmroad_7201.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090425_nmroad_7201\" width=\"185\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090425_brittonusa_7202\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2257]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_brittonusa_7202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2259 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_brittonusa_7202.thumbnail.jpg\" 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src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_w_ok_7221.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090425_w_ok_7221\" width=\"138\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090425_w_ok_7224\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2257]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_w_ok_7224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2265 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_w_ok_7224.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090425_w_ok_7224\" width=\"165\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090425_w_ok_7235\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2257]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_w_ok_7235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2266 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/090425_w_ok_7235.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090425_w_ok_7235\" width=\"185\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090425_w_ok_7241\" 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