APRIL 22nd - Montague county, TX
CHASERS: Bobby Eddins,  Michael Cohen
NOWCASTING: Ed Cohen
SUMMARY:
With the dryline in southern Oklahoma my chase partner, Mike Cohen ay myself headed north towards our target near Ardmore, OK. Just after crossing the Red River a call from Ed Cohen, Mike's brother alerted us that the best looking storm was SW of Bowie, TX and it was moving slowly ENE. We soon turned around and plotted an intercept which took us back south of the river to Ganesville, TX. We took HWY 82 west to Saint Jo, TX and FM 677 south. We could see a nice anvil to our southwest while still east of Saint Jo and from a few miles south on FM 677 just as a tornado warning came out we spotted a distant funnel with rotation and apparant ground contact. Never could confirm this but the storm structure made this chase well worth the trip either way.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV While driving west on HWY 82 towards Saint Jo, TX we can see a nive anvil to the southwest.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV After turning south on FM 677 an apparent tornado becomes visible in the distance.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV Continuing southwest towards Forestburg, TX a barrel updraft reveals itself.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV Curved feader bands beging forming.
image from Nikon E990 We retreat back northeast then east on FM 1630 and find a hill with a view.
image from Nikon E990 And a nice view it it!
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV New storms continue to form on the western flank and slowly move east.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV Let the video roll.
image from Nikon E990 A lowering finally moves to our north and RFD finally hits.
image from Sony TRV-900 miniDV After moving east clear the RFD things look interesting for just a while but soon fall apart.

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