Simon Brewer and Tom Santillo
documented a tornado outbreak in the Panhandle of Texas.
Simon: I ran out of my Dynamics
II test at ~5 pm with a feeling of euphoria and anxiety, if that is
possible, because I was sure I performed very well on the exam, and
yet I knew I would be missing tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle; both
feelings proved to be correct.
Basically, Tom was waiting
for me in the parking lot, I ran to my car, and we were on Highway 9
'gunnning it' out of Norman by 5:08 pm. At ~7:40 pm I took the picture
of the mammatus clouds, which had formed under the anvil of one tornadic
supercells to my WSW. By ~8:10 we were SSE of McLean, TX on some small
farm road taking pictures of an incredible supercell. We witnessed one
stovepipe tornado devlop south of McLean around dark and another tornado
form near McLean after dark. Pretty good day for me considering I did
very well on a very important test and 3 hours later caught 2 tornadoes
in the Texas Panhandle!
1st pic is the mammatus from
I-40 near Sayre, OK.
2nd pic is of beaver's tail
feeding into tornadic supercell near Hedley, TX.
3rd pic is of the tornadic
supercell updraft, which was located about 10-15 miles SSW of McLean,
TX.
This pic is from a farm road
SSE of McLean, TX looking NW at a stovepipe tornado. Sorry, but the
tornado is hard to find, so in the pic is merely this picture with the
tornado labled.
This tornado is much more
visible in this picture.
Nice lightning strike in
front of tornado, but can't see tornado very well in this pic.
Here are video stills of
the stovepipe tornado south-southeast of McLean, TX:
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