{"id":2429,"date":"2009-05-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2009-10-05T21:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T05:57:19","slug":"may-25-2009-northern-tx-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/05\/25\/may-25-2009-northern-tx-panhandle\/","title":{"rendered":"May 25, 2009  Northern TX Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Chase prospects for May 25th looked a little better than previous days, down\r\nin the TX Panhandle.  We began the day in Fort Morgan, and scooted southward.  I was\r\ntargeting the eastern TX PH, where CAPE values were expected to exceed 2500 J\/kg\r\n--- not bad at all.  Still, the forecast shear was marginal, but maybe enough\r\nfor a supercell.  As we neared the NW TX PH near Stratford, we viewed a strong\r\nbut high-based storm to the southwest.  It had frequent lightning and looked\r\nquite nice with the sun lighting up the fields of yellow flowers in the\r\nforeground.  But, it was undercut by its own cold outflow and was somewhat\r\nlinear.  We could see a new storm updraft to the east, in the target area, so we\r\nheaded that way along Road 281.  The cell looked like a supercell on radar and\r\nfrom behind, with frequent wall clouds and scary lowerings beneath an impressive\r\nupdraft tower.  Our road (U.S. 83) southeast to Canadian put us right behind the\r\ncell, and right then and there the storm went into fizzle mode.  The updraft\r\nshriveled as it spun out to our northwest, from a spot northwest of Allison.  At\r\nsunset we found a nice hilltop north of Canadian to watch a storm with laminar\r\nbanding and decent lightning, and a little later were on another hilltop south\r\nof town.  The Irish Inn in Shamrock was our home for the night.<\/pre>\n<p><a title=\"090525_stratford_tx_7681\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_stratford_tx_7681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2430 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_stratford_tx_7681.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090525_stratford_tx_7681\" width=\"151\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090525_stratford_tx_7686\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_stratford_tx_7686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2431 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_stratford_tx_7686.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090525_stratford_tx_7686\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090525_stratford_tx_7688\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" 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alt=\"090525_canadian_tx_7706\" width=\"65\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090525_canadian_tx_7707\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_canadian_tx_7707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2439 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_canadian_tx_7707.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090525_canadian_tx_7707\" width=\"147\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090525_canadian_tx_7712\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_canadian_tx_7712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2440 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/090525_canadian_tx_7712.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090525_canadian_tx_7712\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090525_canadian_tx_7718\" rel=\"lightbox[pics2429]\" 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We began the day in Fort Morgan, and&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/05\/25\/may-25-2009-northern-tx-panhandle\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22,17,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-30","7":"category-cumulonimbus","8":"category-landscapes","9":"category-sunsets-and-storms","10":"category-vegetation","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}