2002 Chase Logs
May 5th
Happy, Texas
April 16th
Maypearl, Texas
April 7th
March 30th
March 19th(Text Only)
4pm Dewpoint
Surface Pressure
SPC Storm Reports
Chase Day! First chase of the season.
Forecast: An upper low is deepening a moving into central TX today. A warm front that has been setting in south central TX is positioned from southeast of Dallas to south of San Angelo. This will be the focus for severe storm development this afternoon. A pacific front/dryline will move east from the big Bend area toward central TX. There is a threat for a few tornadoes before a squall line takes over with high winds the main threat along with scattered large hail.
Target:Menard, TX
Summary:
Chase began shortly after noon. My chase partner for the day will be Mickey. We arrived in Brady around 3 o'clock. Upon our arrival we knew this would be a very tough chase. It was still overcast in the area with low visibilities, plus we were expecting a squall line.
3:55pm, we fianlly here some action going on. Tornado warning for Schleicher Co! This was still about 60 miles to our west. We took 190 from Brady to Menard. The doppler indicated tornado was expected to be in Menard at 4:10pm. As we approach the storm just east of Menard it was very hard to see. We knew we were dealing with a squall line so there wasn't much we could do but proceed with caution as we were over taken by rain and hail. The storm moved east and produced a few more tornado warnings but all we could see was rain and hail. Later on, it developed a pretty intense shelf cloud near Cherokee. It was fun, anyway, even if all we got was swollowed up by a squall line.
