{"id":6627,"date":"2012-04-29T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2012-10-15T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T05:08:33","slug":"april-29-2011-lubbock-tx-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2012\/04\/29\/april-29-2011-lubbock-tx-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"April 29, 2012 Lubbock, TX supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This day began in Vernon, TX, and we targeted the warm front\/boundary that was in the Lamesa area midday.\u00a0 It lifted north a tad during the afternoon and convection began west and SW of Levelland late afternoon.\u00a0 A supercell got its act going just north of Levelland.\u00a0\u00a0 A large gustnado developed to our south while we hugged a menacing wall cloud. The cell was a little outflowish with a large precip core, and RFD winds kicked up large dust plumes along Highway 114 east of Levelland.<\/p>\n

An area of interest showed some promise just north of Smyer (along 114), but dust and poor contrast made it difficult to see exactly what was happening.\u00a0 I elected to head east and north a little for some structure and maybe some back lighting, and this is when a new updraft went up quickly just south of 114, I think.\u00a0 This one quickly strengthened, became the dominant cell, and developed a big hook and was tornado warned.\u00a0 We zoomed southward around the west side of Lubbock on the loop, and had a good look at the supercell and frequent lightning to our southwest.\u00a0 The storm turned to the ESE and headed towards the southern fringe of LBB.\u00a0 We got east of the updraft in light rain and occasional small hail on the southwestern fringe of Lubbock, north of Slide.\u00a0 We had a pretty good look into the notch area from some 5-8 miles away and saw no tornado, or good wall cloud for that matter.\u00a0 Dust was a problem, it was getting dark, and lightning was not frequent enough to help out much.<\/p>\n

Quarter-size hail chased us farther east and south along U.S. 87, and we let the thing pass to our north.\u00a0 Again, it was difficult to discern much at low-levels due to dusty inflow.\u00a0 We inched back north along 87 after the cell had passed by (or at least 80 percent of the core).\u00a0 We stopped at the Lubbock\/Lynn county line and picked up hailstones that measured up to 3 inches. Also, blowing hail fog made driving extremely hazardous —– it was the first time I had witnessed blowing hail fog!\u00a0 We saw numerous vehicles off of the road with broken glass.\u00a0 The bulk of the city of Lubbock dodged a bullet with this one.<\/p>\n

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