I had today off, and I really wanted to spend it storm chasing. It just wasn’t in the cards though. I finished up a swing shift at midnight yesterday (Tuesday evening), and I just don’t think it would have been feasible for me to make a 10+ hour drive in time to arrive for today’s action in central TX. I was contemplating a target area of somewhere near San Angelo, but I was a little nervous about the prospects there given last night’s convection and the potential for some “capping” stratus clouds through the mid day. However, the low clouds didn’t hamper anything this afternoon, and it actually turned out to be a rather active day.
After tornado watch boxes were posted, a few tornado reports and warnings followed including the storm below that is located just west of station BBD. The smaller storm just south of BBD was a left split that branched off from the storm farthest south. Lots of rotating storms, and great structure on radar…I bet it was a beautiful spectacle to watch. The southern most storm also eventually became tornado warned. I’m bound and determined to get out chasing sometime within the next few weeks.
