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August 18th Southeast Nebraska

Bust.

Chase Partner: Eric Nguyen   Vehicle: Dodge Van   Miles: 800

August 17th Southern Kansas

Bust.

Chase Partner: Eric Nguyen   Vehicle: Dodge Van   Miles: 300

June 15th Northwest Texas Panhandle

SPC Event Summary

Chase Partner: Solo   Vehicle: Kia Sephia   Miles: 1000

June 12th Northwest Oklahoma

SPC Event Summary

Chase Partner: Solo   Vehicle: Kia Sephia   Miles: 750

May 28th Southwest Texas

Chased far southwest Texas with Eric Nguyen and Scott Blair. We observed several supercell but lack of roads made it impossible to intercept. We ended the day playing in some sand dunes and taking stills of distant storms.

Chase Partner: Eric Nguyen   Vehicle: Dodge Van   Miles: 1100

May 27th Southeast Texas Panhandle

Discussion by Eric Nguyen:

Despite everyone heading down to SPC's moderate risk, we targeted the Plainview to Lubbock area.  Our first supercell developed just east of Highway 27 SE of Plainview, TX.  It was a spiral updraft, however, too inflow dominant and seemed to lack moisture which caused it to dissipated.  We dove south to another developing supercell near Abernathy, TX off of Highway 27.  This storm didn't look great at first.  We went into the core a few times and were surprised at the wall of pea to quarter sized hail.  We continued to stay ahead of this hail letting it hit us to see how big it was.  While doing this a tornado developed 3/4 of a mile south of us.  It was weak and small, however, up close video that other chasers got showed it to have pretty strong rotation and mulitvortex structure located just north of Ralls, TX.  This dissipated and we went into Ralls, TX to gas up.  We went east of town to continued chasing it.  It had a strange lowering scud that had dust feeding into it.  Another tornado developed rapidly between Ralls, TX and Crosbyton, TX.  This lasted for a few minutes and was multivortex.  After this dissipated we hung around in Crosbyton while golf ball and larger sized hail began to fall.  We went south to stay ahead of the storm and that's when baseball sized hail (measured 3.1 inch hail) began to fall south of Crosbyton, TX.   This storm moved off the caprock and began to weaken.  At that time a new LP supercell formed back to the west near Crosbyton, TX and had a huge wallcloud on it.   Once we got back on the caprock we got site of this new classic rotating supercell with a nice wallcloud developing.  We were certain it would tornado, however, no such luck!  Despite it looking twice as good as the other tornadic supercells, it only produced marginal hail.

SPC Event Summary

Chase Partner: Eric Nguyen   Vehicle: Dodge Van   Miles: 625

May 24th Northwest Texas

SPC Event Summary

Chase Partner: Solo   Vehicle: Kia Sephia   Miles: 450

May 23rd Northeast Texas Panhandle

Chased with the same group of chasers I met up with the day before. This group included Eric Nguyen, Scott Blair, Amos Magliocco, the weathervine goup, and others.

Discussion by Eric Nguyen:

We were unsure on a target for the day, however, on our way south into NW OK we targeted NW TX Pan.  The first supercell developed near Follett, TX in far northeaster TX Pan.  This produced two weak short-lived dust-whirls.  A second supercell developed near Lipscomb which had a classic appearance and produced a nice stove-pipe tornado.  About 30min later this and another supercell to the south rapidly intensified.  After dark I went southwest to Miami, TX and encountered two classic violent supercells which had east inflow winds sustained at 40mph with gusts exceeding 50mph.  Classic wallcloud formed just north of Miami, TX and baseball hail was falling to the west.  The second supercell to the SW had the same structure, classic supercell structure with baseball sized hail that broke the windshield.  Once these supercells passed and began to weaken with time we called it a night and drove to W OK to prepare for the next day.

SPC Event Summary

Chase Partner: Solo   Vehicle: Kia Sephia   Miles: 675

May 22nd Northern Kansas

Met up with several chasers in Northern Kansas where we observed a long-lived HP Supercell.

Chase Partner: Solo   Vehicle: Kia Sephia   Miles: 1050