April 25, 2009 Cordell, OK marginal severe

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’s throw from the rest area parking lot.  No wonder no one was there when we pulled in around 1 a.m.

We easily made it to the eastern Texas Panhandle for mid-afternoon convection.   The first cell for us drifted from about Groom, TX, to Reydon, OK, but was high-based and unimpressive.  We abandoned that for a good-looking cell to the south, near Cordell, OK.  It had a good spaceship lookat dusk and was very pretty, but high-based too, with little tornado potential.  I shot a ton of stills and missed the few really nice CGs with the storm.