JUNE 12th - Guthrie, TX
CHASERS: Bobby Eddins  Michael Cohen
SUMMARY:
Though both my chase weeks were over, this day looked to good to pass up. An old outflow boundary was to be the action area and it stretched up the Red River valley towards Childress, TX. so we took off for Childress.

One complication was an old front that stretched east-west across central Oklahoma. Morning convection had never died and as we arrived in Childress it looked like this might be the convective mode for the day. There was also a dry line to our west down the TX/NM border and this feature was now pushing east.

We sat at the Kettle restaurant looking at data for a while before we noted Lubbock and Plainview had gone to the west and storms were starting to fire west of Matador. There was an obvious dry-line buldge. We decided to go for the Matador storm and drove south on Hwy 83, then west. This storm did not impress us but we now had more storms to the southwest. We started to drive south out of Matador to try to get in front of these storms but looking at Threatnet it appeared we would just be driving into a core so we decided to go back east then south. This was the safe decision but would cost us a chance to see several tornado's.

By the time we got to Guthrie and drove west to intercept the show was pretty much over. Got some nice pics of the storms last gasps but not what we came for.

We soon continued south in a mad dash to get in front of the Jayton storm only to have it die near Hamlin. More nice pics but mostly frustration as the storms died just as we got to them.
image from Cannon 300D West out of Guthrie, TX
image from Cannon 300D Still had lots of rotation.
image from Cannon 300D Better storm to our south.
image from Cannon 300D Developing tail-cloud and RFD.
image from Cannon 300D Could we get lucky.
image from Cannon 300D Maybe.
image from Cannon 300D Right below a nice tower.
image from Cannon 300D Common, do it!!
image from Cannon 300D The wall-cloud blocking up but shrinking.
image from Cannon 300D Still trying.
image from Cannon 300D A bit more ragged.
image from Cannon 300D West of Hamlin looking at the Jayton HP.
image from Cannon 300D Nice HP wall-cloud.
image from Cannon 300D Just another HP moving at us.
image from Cannon 300D Nice looking nose above the wall-cloud.
image from Cannon 300D The south end of the storm getting close.
image from Cannon 300D Back to the wall-cloud.
image from Cannon 300D A bit east as the storm gets very close.
image from Cannon 300D The nose stretching to our north.
image from Cannon 300D Just about done.

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