May 11, 2012 Cedar Park, TX storm

Using the word “storm” for what we witnessed on this chase day is a bit generous.  We fought traffic and city clutter and managed to get a look at what I think was a small “left split” supercell, with a sculpted base.  This was in Cedar Park, north of Austin.  Here is my original write-up:

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On May 11, Friday, we targeted areas not too far north of our starting point of Hebbronville, TX.  Some cells went up north of San Antonio and around Austin.  These were generally weakly organized and rather low-topped, near an upper-level low in north TX.  Better instability was towards Houston, but I wasn’t going deeper into southeast TX unless the tornado chances were excellent.  They were not, and we fumbled around with so-so junk in the traffic and congestion and general Friday afternoon mess along I-35.  YUCK.  We managed to see some okay low-level structure on what appeared to be a low-topped left-split weak supercell northwest of Austin.  A forgettable day.  We stayed at Copperas Cove for the night.

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