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BEST PICS OF 2002
HERE ARE THE TOP 7 PICS TAKEN DURING THE 2002 STORMCHASE SEASON. ALL OF THESE PICS ARE TAKEN BY THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM. THEY ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. NOTE; THESE PICS ARE COPYRIGHETED AND CAN NOT BE RECREATED IN PART OR IN WHOLE
THESE ARE THE BEST PICS THIS CHASE SEASON.
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SUPERCELL STORM NEAR DECATUR TEXAS
ON MONDAY APRIL 29TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN TEXHOMA. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM THROCKMORTON TEXAS TO SEYMOUR TEXAS TO BURKBURNETT TEXAS TO RANDLETT OKLAHOMA TO PAULS VALLEY OKLAHOMA. STRONG TO SEVERE STOTRMS WOULD BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS AREA FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
A VERY STRONG WARM SEMI-STATIONARY WARM FRONT WAS DRAPPED ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES AND THIS FRONT INTERSECTED A DRYLINE NEAR THE ABILIENE AREA. THIS ALONG WITH ADEQUATE DAY TIME HEATING AND A WEAK DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NEW MEXICO WOULD BE ENOUGH TO BREAK A STRONG CAPPING INVERSION THAT WAS IN PLACE.
AT 5PM STORMS BEGAN TO FIRE JUST SOUTHEAST OF ABILIENE TEXAS. THESE STORMS WOULD RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FROM 5PM TILL 10 PM FOR THROCKMORTON YOUNG JACK WISE MONTAGUE & PALO PINTO COUNTIES IN TEXHOMA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALSO SOON DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN PALO PINTO COUNTY. THIS STORM TOOK ON CLASSIC SUPERCELLULAR STRUCTURE AND PRODUCED 60 MPH WINDS AT MINERAL WELLS TEXAS. THIS STORM WOULD MOVE INTO WISE COUNTY AND PRODUCE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRIDGEPORT AND SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL AT DECATUR.
ANOTHER SUPERCELL BEGAN TO STRENGTHEN AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR YOUNG JACK & MONTAGUE COUNTIES FOR A STORM THAT WOULD PRODUCE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT JERMYN AND 60MPH WINDS AT GRAHAM ALONG WITH GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF GRAHAM. THIS STORM WOULD DIE NEAR THE BOWIE AREA IN MONTAGUE COUNTY RAPIDLY.
A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR CLAY ARCHER AND THE PREVIOUS COUNTIES UNTIL MOIDNIGHT BUT YET ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED UNTIL 5AM FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN TEXHOMA. NEW STORMS BEAGN TO FORM IN NORTHER YOUNG & THROCKMORTON COUNTIES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING S HAD TO BE ISSUED FOR ARCHER CLAY YOUNG HASKELL & BAYLOR COUNTIES. THESE STORMS PRODUCED HALF-DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AT NEWPORT IN CLAY COUNTY AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERT IN THROCKMORTON COUNTY. HASKELL COUNTY WOULD ALSO REPORT QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT STIGLER. THESE STORMS WOULD WEAKEN AND MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 1AM.
CHASED BY JASON BROCK & JEFF PAPAK
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK |
JULY 12TH BURKBURNET STORM
ON FRIDAY JULY 12TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR PARTS OF TEXHOMA MAINLY NORTH & EAST OF A LINE FROM OKLHOMA CITY TO WICHITA FALLS TO GRAHAM TEXAS. A COOL FRONT WAS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS TEXHOM A AND BE THE FOCUS FOR WIDESPREAD STORMS ALL ACROSS TEXHOMA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED ABOUT NOON FOR PARTS OF TEXHOMA. THIS WATCH INCLUDED GRADY CADDO COMANCHE COTTON STEPHENS & JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 5PM THIS WATCH ALSO INCLUDED POINTS TO THE EAST.
IT WAS NOT UNTIL EVENING HOWEVER THAT STORMS WOULD GET A BIT SEVERE. ONE STORM AT ABOUT 4PM WOULD BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING HAIL TO QUARTERS AND WINDS TO 60 MPH IN WISE COUNTY. THE OTHER STORMS WOULD NOT FIRE UP UNTIL ABOUT 7PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR CHILDRESS & COTTLE COUNTIES WHERE WINDS TO 63 MPH WERE REPORTED AT THE CHILDRESS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. OTHER STORMS WOULD BECOME SEVERE IN WILBARGER TILLMAN & COTTON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WOULD DROP HAIL TO QUARTER SIZE IN PETROLIA AND PRODUCE A LOT OF LIGHTNING AND WINDS TO 60MPH. THE STORMS WOULD DIE OUT ABOUT 12AM.
PHOTO ABOVE OF SEVERE STORM NEAR BURKBURNETT TEXAS AT SUNSET.
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK |
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AUGUST 13TH LAKE ARROWHEAD STORM
ON TUESDAY AUGUST 13TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR ALL OF TEXHOMA. A VERY UNSEASONABLY COOL COLD FRONT WAS FORECAST TO SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS TEXHOMA DRIVING TEMPERATURES FROM THE UPPER 90S INTO THE UPPER 60S. ALONG WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE STORMS WERE FORECAST TO ERRUPT ALONG AND BEHIND THIS FRONT.
AT 3PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR OUR NORTHEASTERN COUNITES OF COMANCHE COTTON GRADY CADDO STEPEHENS & JEFFERSON AS WELL AS POINTS TO THE EAST. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR MOST OF OUR TEXAS COUNTIES UNTIL 10PM..
STORMS WOULD FIRE ALONG THE FRONT IN THROCKMORTON & BAYLOR COUNTIES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE ISSUED. THESE STORMS WOULD MOVE TO THE EAST SLOWLY. THROCKMORTON COUNTY HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL5 MILES NORTH OF THROCKMORTON. CLAY COUNTY REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL. ARCHER COUNTY HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL 1 MILE WEST OF ARCHER CITY. HENRIETTA IN CLAY COUNTY AS WELL HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF FARGO QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL IN WILBARGER COUNTY. FINALLY ANOTHER SLIGHTLY SEVERE STORM DROPPED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES EAST OF MIDDLEBERG.
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WOULD BE ISSUED UNTIL 2AM FOR MOST OF OUR TEXAS COUNTIES AS STORMS DIED OUT AROUND 1AM.
THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM CHASED THESE STORMS TO OLNEY THEN BACK TO ARCHER CITY THEN TO WINDTHORST AND GOT SOME GOOD LIGHTNING PICS AROUND THE LAKE ARROWHEAD AREA.
PHOT OF SEVERE STORM NEAR LAKE ARROWHEAD TEXAS WITH WEAK ROTATION
CHASED BY JASON BROCK & MARK PAPAK
VIDCAP BY JASON BROCK |
JUNE 15TH DERECHO GUSTFRONT
SATURDAY JUNE 15TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR MOST OF TEXHOMA. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND MOVE RADIDLY TO THE SOUTHEAST DURING THE EVENING. THIS WOULD SPARK A LARGE COMPLEX OF SEVERE STORMS TO ROLL DIRECTLY OVER TEXHOMA. AT 5PM A LARGE PART OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS UPGRADED TO A MODERATE RISK MAINY EAST OF A LINE FROM BUFFALOE OKLAHOMA TO SEYMOUR TEXAS. THE REST OF THE AREA WAS IN A SLIGHT RISK.
AT 4PM A PDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM & WASHITA COUNTIES UNTIL 10PM. HAIL TO GOLFBALLS AND WINDS TO 80 MPH WERE EXPECTED. AT ABOUT 7PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED TO THE SOUTH OF THIS WATCH TO INCLUDE MOST OF TEXHOMA UNTIL 1AM SUNDAY MORNING.
THERE WERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY COUNTY IN TEXHOMA AT SOMEPOINT DURING THE EVENING. WHILE HAIL WAS NOT TOO BIG OF A PROBLEM A FEW LARGE HAIL REPORTS DID COME IN.
COTTLE COUNTY REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT CEE VEE AND HAIL TO PENNY SIZE WAS WIDE SPREAD. WHAT PROVED TO BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS BESIDES HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS THE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THAT REACHED AS HIGH AS 100 MPH IN SOME AREAS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED ALL ACROSS TEXHOMA. ONE OF THE LARGEST AREAS OF WIND DAMAGE I HAVE SEEN. WHILE I HAVE SEEN WORSE WIND DAMAGE I HAVE NEVER SEEN IT THIS SPREAD OUT. DAMAGE WAS REPORTED FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO TO HOUSTON TEXAS.
IN THE LOCAL AREA 58 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED 4 MILES SOUTH OF TIPTON IN TILLMAN COUNTY.BECKHAM COUNTY HAD WINDS TO 60 MPH AT SWEETWATER. 6O MPH AT HYDRO IN CADDO COUNTY. BECKHAM COUNTY ALSO HAD 70 MPH WINDS SAYRE. WASHITA COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 6 MILES NORTH OF COLONY. CADDO COUNTY ALSO HAD 65 MPH WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF HINTON. 80 MPH WINDS CAME IN 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONE WOLF IN KIOWA COUNTY. WASHITA COUNTY ALSO HAD 69 MPH WINDS 2 MILES SOUTH OF RETROP. BECKHAM ALSO HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT RETROP. CADDO COUNTY HAD 64 MPH WINDS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF COBB. HARMON HAD 75 MPH WINDS 4 MILES WEST OF HOLLIS. GREER COUNTY HAD 69 MPH WINDS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANGUM. 62 MPH WINDS OCCURRED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBART IN KIOWA COUNTY. 60 MPH WINDS 4 MILES SOUTN OF ANADARKO OCCURRED IN CADDO AS WELL.
THE HIGHEST ACTUAL MEASURED WIND GUST OCCURRED IN CHILDRESS COUNTY AT THE CHILDRESS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT OF 97 MPH. 60 MPH WINDS OCCURRED AT MINCO IN GRADY COUNTY 60 MPH ALSO OCCURRED 2 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAIN PARK. LAWTON HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN COMANCHE COUNTY. ALTUS HAD 70 MPH WINDS IN JACKSON COUNTY. 72 MPH WINDS OCCURRED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSH SPRINGS IN GRADY COUNTY. 70 MPH OCCURRED AT ANADARKO IN CADDO. 58 MPH OCCURRED 4 MILES SOUTH OF TIPTON IN TILLMAN COUNTY. COTTLE COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 10 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH. FOARD COUNTY HAD 75 MPH WINDS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROWELL HARDEMAN COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 3 MILES NORTH OF CHILICOTHE. COTTLE ALSO HAD 70 MPH WINDS AT PADUCAH.WILBARGER REPORTED WINDS TO 70 MPH AT OKLAUNION. 84 MPH WINDS HIT TILLMAN COUNTY 3 MILES WEST OF GRANDFIELD. BURKBURNETT HAD 92 MPH WINDS IN WICHITA COUNTY. COTON COUNTY HAD 68 MPH WINDS 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF WALTERS. COTTLE ALSO HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT CEE VEE . 60 MPH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED AT GRANDFIELD. COMANCHE HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN STEPHENS COUNTY. GUTHRIE HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN KING COUNTY. WICHITA FALLS HAD WINDS TO 83 MPH IN WICHITA COUNTY. STEPHENS COUNTY ASLO HAD 65 MPH WINDS AT WAURIKA. 90 MPH WINDS OCCURRED IN KNOX COUNTY AT MUNDAY. 75 MPH WINDS OCCURRED AT HOLLIDAY IN ARCHER COUNTY. 60 MPH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED 13 MILES SOUTH OF VERNON. 70 MPH 7 MILES NORTH OF HASKELL 60 MPH WAURIKA 90 MPH ARCHER CITY 70 MPH THROCKMORTON 60 MPH OLNEY 65 MPH HENRIETTA 60 MPH JACKSBORO 60 MPH NEWCASTLE 60 MPH ELBERT 60 MPH RINGOLD 70 MPH AT KNOX CITY 74 MPH MINERAL WELLS AND FINALLY 60 MPH AT GRAHAM. Strong storm blasts through area
Winds of 70 mph rode in on thunderstorms Saturday night, blasting over power lines, telephone wires, trees and a mobile home in the Wichita Falls area, officials said.
The mobile home in City View was not occupied, officials said. But power lines trapped at least one motorist about 10:20 p.m. in the 1700 block of Pearlie drive near Sheppard Air Force Base.
At 10:40 p.m., people were reported trapped inside an automobile in a ditch with water rising around it on U.S. 287.
In addition, an automobile was trapped under power lines under the overpass at Interstate 44 and Old Iowa Park Road.
Police and firefighters scrambled to answer a barrage of calls that began about 10:15 p.m. Transformer fires and wires down were the most common calls.
Sirens went off in the city at 10:15 p.m. to alert residents to sustained, straight-line winds of more than 55 mph.
But severe weather spotters had not reported any rotation by 11 p.m. The worst of the severe weather had subsided by then.
Besides Wichita Falls, power outages were reported in Iowa Park and the Cashion Community.
Severe thunderstorms blustered through much of North Texas Saturday night, blasting straight winds of more than 90 mph in some areas and possibly dropping tennis ball-sized hail, officials said.
At 9:30 p.m., the storms were most intense in the North Texas counties of Hardeman, Childress, Wilbarger and Knox, Ken Gallant, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said.
Heavy rain and severe winds swept through Hardeman, a Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said. Big trees to the west of Quanah, Texas, were down, but no other reports of weather damage had been received by 9:30 p.m.
The thunderstorms blew in from Lawton, Okla., puffing southeast at 45 mph to 50 mph.
Thousands powerless, jets grounded
Saturday night's wind storm has left more than tree limbs and broken glass in its wake. Thousands of families and businesses in the Wichita Falls area were without power Monday morning.
There were no injuries reported in connection with the storm, even with sustained winds clocked at 70 mph or great. There were windgusts reported at 82 mph in Wichita Falls, 92 mph in Burkburnett, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm's damage was not limited to north Texas, however, damage was scattered in a wide path from the Amarillo area in the Texas panhandle, throughout north- and southwest Oklahoma and down into north Texas to just north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Officials at Oncor, a division of TXU, said Monday 13,500 customers were still in the dark, so to speak, for a second straight day.
Crews from the metroplex, Oklahoma and west Texas have been called in to assist.
There were also reports that Sheppard Air Force Base had suspended some training flights due to damage from the storm.
PHOTO TO RIGHT OF GUSTFRONT MOVING INTO WICHITA FALLS ON 6/15/02
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JULY 7TH FREAK WESTOVER/MEGARGEL LANDSPOUT TORNADO
ON SUNDAY JULY 7TH NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORECAST FOR THE AREA. SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE EXPECTED BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS FORECAST. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY WEST ACROSS THE AREA WHICH WOULD BRING FLOODING RAINS TO CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. IN TEXHOMA SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE ONGOING AND 2 OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES COLLIDED OVER THE WESTOVER AND MEGARGEL AREAS. THIS WOULD CREATE SHOWERS AND STORMS ALONG IT. AT ABOUT 4PM MEGAGEL SHERRIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR WESTOVER. THIS FUNNEL WOULD DROP TO THE GROUND AND PRODUCE A WEAK TORNADO ASLO KNOWN AS A LANDSPOUT. WHILE NO TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTRORM WARNINGS OR WATCHES WERE IN EFFECT MEGAGEL DID SOUND THE TORNADO SIRENS AS THE LANDSPOUT STAYED ON THE GROUND FOR A BIT BUT CAUSED NO DAMAGE. THERE WAS REPORTES OF POSSIBLY A SECOND LANDSPOUT AS WELL BUT IT WAS NOT CONFIRMED DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT WAS WRAPPED IN A RAIN SHAFT.
PHOTO ABOVE OF LANDSPOUT TORNADO NEAR WESTOVER TEXAS ON 7/7/02.
PHOTO BY CARLTON BROCK |
JULY 28TH TEXHOMA STORMS
ON SUNDAY JULY 28TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR THAT PART OF TEXHOMA MAINLKY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM OKLAHOMA CITY TO HENRIETTA TEXAS. WHILE NO WACHES OR WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT SEVERE STORMS DID FORM IN PARTS OF TEXHOMA. BAYLOR THROCKMORTON HASKELL & WILBARGER COUNTIES WOULD ALL HAVE WARNINGS. WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WERE REPORTED ALONG WITH HAIL AS LARGE AS HALF-DOLLARS. A TORNADO WARNING WAS ALSO ISSUED FRO THROCKMORTON COUNTY BUT THE STORM QUICKLY DIED OUT. OTHER STORMS WOULD ROLL INTO TEXHOMA DURING HE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND PRODUCE NO WARNINGS BUT SOME SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM COUNTY AND POINTS TO THE NORTH FROM 8PM TILL 1AM. THESE STORMS WOULD PRODUCE WINDS TO 60 MPH IN CADDO & WASHITA COUNTIES WHERE 4 INCH TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN.
PHOTO ABOVE OF SEVERE STORM NEAR WICHITA FALLS TEXAS ON 7/28/02
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK
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JULY 28TH TEXHOMA STORMS
ON SUNDAY JULY 28TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR THAT PART OF TEXHOMA MAINLKY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM OKLAHOMA CITY TO HENRIETTA TEXAS. WHILE NO WACHES OR WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT SEVERE STORMS DID FORM IN PARTS OF TEXHOMA. BAYLOR THROCKMORTON HASKELL & WILBARGER COUNTIES WOULD ALL HAVE WARNINGS. WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WERE REPORTED ALONG WITH HAIL AS LARGE AS HALF-DOLLARS. A TORNADO WARNING WAS ALSO ISSUED FRO THROCKMORTON COUNTY BUT THE STORM QUICKLY DIED OUT. OTHER STORMS WOULD ROLL INTO TEXHOMA DURING HE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND PRODUCE NO WARNINGS BUT SOME SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM COUNTY AND POINTS TO THE NORTH FROM 8PM TILL 1AM. THESE STORMS WOULD PRODUCE WINDS TO 60 MPH IN CADDO & WASHITA COUNTIES WHERE 4 INCH TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN.
PHOTO ABOVE OF SEVERE STORM NEAR WICHITA FALLS TEXAS ON 7/28/02
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK |
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