{"id":1523,"date":"2008-05-15T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2008\/05\/15\/may-15-2008-eagle-pass-tx-supercell\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:27:05","slug":"may-15-2008-eagle-pass-tx-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2008\/05\/15\/may-15-2008-eagle-pass-tx-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 15, 2008 Eagle Pass, TX Supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

At our morning briefing in Fredericksburg<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, we targeted the Rio Grande<\/st1:placename> River<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> area somewhere between about Del Rio<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Eagle<\/st1:placename> Pass.<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>\u00a0 <\/span>Parameters looked good for supercells if storms could develop over the mountains in Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> west of Del Rio<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.\u00a0 <\/span>If the storms didn\u2019t turn too hard to the right, then they should make it to the international border for our viewing pleasure.\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

We had a nice Mexican lunch in Rock Springs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and continued southwest to Del Rio<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.\u00a0 <\/span>A storm went up in the mountains, west of Del Rio<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, just as planned!\u00a0 <\/span>We had to wait about three hours for it to reach the U.S<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.\u00a0 <\/span>This occurred at Eagle Pass<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, and the cell was tornado-warned.\u00a0 <\/span>The base was a little on the high side and there was plenty of precip involved with the updraft, but the structure was impressive nonetheless.\u00a0 <\/span>The core neared and chased us south a few miles, and Eagle Pass<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was munched by hail up to almost 3 inches in diameter.\u00a0 <\/span>We went southeast to El Indio, but the cell elected to move more easterly than east-southeasterly, so we could not view the notch area adequately.\u00a0 <\/span>As the storm drifted east we caught the back edge of the updraft and a tight, spinning protrusion, but the storm was not in a tornado mood.<\/p>\n

New strong cells blew up in Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and gave us a nice lightning show on our wet drive back to Del Rio<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.\u00a0 <\/span>380 miles.<\/p>\n

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At our morning briefing in Fredericksburg, we targeted the Rio Grande River area somewhere between about Del Rio and Eagle Pass.\u00a0 Parameters looked good for… [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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-5","7":"category-supercells","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}