{"id":7282,"date":"2012-05-10T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2012-09-07T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:24:34","slug":"may-10-2012-south-tx-severe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2012\/05\/10\/may-10-2012-south-tx-severe\/","title":{"rendered":"May 10, 2012 South TX severe"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a pretty good severe-weather show this day WAY down in south Texas, around Laredo.\u00a0 Here is my brief chase account written shortly after the chase:<\/p>\n

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Today, May 10, featured good severe weather ingredients for south TX, and maybe not too far from Del Rio.\u00a0 Supercells and tornadoes were predicted by SPC.\u00a0 We hung around Del Rio into the early afternoon, then figured out that better convergence and low-level air was down south towards Dimmit County.\u00a0 Upon reaching Highway 44 (north of Laredo), we considered going after big cells which were getting tornado warned to the east, but elected to stick with Plan A \u2014 wait for supercells moving out of Mexico.\u00a0 One big one approached us as we waited ten miles southwest of Encinal.\u00a0 A left split slammed into it, but this caused little more than a hiccup and the beast reorganized quickly.\u00a0 As it approached our location, it featured a large area of lowerings and some good low-level structure.\u00a0 It was a bit outflowish and HP-ish, though, and it chased us farther south as it turned ESE.\u00a0 We raced south to Laredo and ENE on 59 to intercept it again, but it was even more outflowish and disorganized.\u00a0 Occasional inch-diameter hail and heavy rain accompanied us on the way to a flooded Freer, TX.\u00a0 I reserved rooms in Hebbronville, 40 miles to the south.\u00a0 Nice lightning crawlers and this update summary are causing me to stay up too late!<\/em><\/p>\n

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While waiting for the supercell to reach the Rio Grande north of Laredo, we could see some lowerings which suggested some good organization (image 5325 below).\u00a0 The trend seemed to go downhill on low-level organization, though, after the interaction with the left split.<\/p>\n

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Here is a look at the wet cells east of Laredo:<\/p>\n

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And, a couple of “stills” of the lightning crawlers above Hebbronville.\u00a0 Unfortunately, my camera tripod was not available at the time of this nice crawler display.\u00a0 The camera was handheld and I had to settle for a shaky look, but it gives you a good idea at least!<\/p>\n

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We had a pretty good severe-weather show this day WAY down in south Texas, around Laredo.\u00a0 Here is my brief chase account written shortly after… [Read 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":[48,16,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-48","7":"category-lightning","8":"category-stormy-skies","9":"category-supercells","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}