{"id":6642,"date":"2012-04-28T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2012-05-03T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:51:19","slug":"april-28-2012-texas-sunset-and-lightning-crawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2012\/04\/28\/april-28-2012-texas-sunset-and-lightning-crawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"April 28, 2012 Texas sunset and lightning crawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The previous day was active up north near Topeka, KS, and we stayed the night near Wichita.\u00a0 The target area today was the Red River area, near Lawton and Wichita Falls.\u00a0 The cap was strong and the chances for daytime storms along a SW-NE boundary from about Vernon to Oklahoma City were so-so.\u00a0 Computer models indicated a big cell before sunset way down south, around Clairemont, TX.\u00a0 But, dew points in that region were in the upper 40s, compared to the mid 60s near the Red River.\u00a0 Models were certain about convection and even supercells somewhere near the boundary in SW OK…but were waffling as to whether storms would initiate before dark or not.<\/p>\n

We drifted south to Wichita Falls and even a little south of there, even though a surface circulation and moisture convergence bullseye suggested that convection was more likely up towards Lawton.\u00a0 I thought about blasting southwest to the Clairemont area (Kent County, TX) around 4 p.m., but resisted and decided to give our original target area a chance.\u00a0 By 6 or 7 p.m., our area had little more than a struggling cumulus field, and that big and bad storm did indeed form in the middle of the wasteland between Abilene and Lubbock —- near Clairemont.\u00a0 Shucks.<\/p>\n

We rolled into Vernon at 8 p.m. and got a quick bite at McDonalds.\u00a0 I reserved rooms in town, and then decided to blast SSW to the beast, now tornado warned!\u00a0 It was 100 miles away, but I thought that we should be able to at least get a decent light show if we drove for an hour or so.\u00a0 As we neared Benjamin, we were treated to some distant CGs out of the big storm’s anvil, and some nearby CGs due to new small cells.\u00a0 After clearing these small cells and the rain south of Benjamin, we stopped and set up the tripods and had a little luck with some lightning crawlers.<\/p>\n

The sunset pics were just south of Vernon.<\/p>\n

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