{"id":24843,"date":"2019-05-23T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=24843"},"modified":"2019-10-10T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:20:11","slug":"may-23-2019-brownfield-and-lubbock-supercells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2019\/05\/23\/may-23-2019-brownfield-and-lubbock-supercells\/","title":{"rendered":"May 23, 2019 Brownfield and Lubbock Supercells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Start: \u00a0Clinton, OK<\/p>\n

Lunch: \u00a0Plainview, TX<\/p>\n

End: \u00a0Childress, TX<\/p>\n

600 miles<\/p>\n

SPC Day One\/20Z<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 752<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0SPC Mesoscale Discussion 753<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 758<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0SPC Mesoscale Discussion 763<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 764<\/a><\/p>\n

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21Z Surface map:<\/p>\n

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Chase account<\/a> by TT guest L. Ryan<\/p>\n

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May was a bit of a tough month for me as far as getting on the best storms with the tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle. \u00a0It seemed that I was often one or two counties off — should have been south when I was north, should have been north when I was south. \u00a0Today I liked the area a little southwest of Lubbock, and we wound up with a couple of big-time supercells. \u00a0These wrapped up and looked about ready to go into tornado-making mode, but they could not finish the deal. \u00a0Meanwhile, some tornadoes occurred in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. \u00a0What was the difference today? \u00a0Maybe the cloud bases — the temperature\/dew point spreads were quite a bit lower up north, where the tornadoes were.<\/p>\n

We came up to a couple of good-sized storms west and southwest of Brownfield. \u00a0It was a bit hazy, but we were able to get close, just east of the updraft base of the northern cell. \u00a0I wasn’t sure which cell might be most favored for a tornado.<\/p>\n

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