5/26/09 - North Central Texas

[Genaro Estrada]

Pretty good HP turned LP severe thunderstorms today....the cell that formed just west of DFW split, we followed the left mover, and it was pretty nice. Went through some hail, penny size, that was cool. Lots of lightning as it matured near Boyd, Texas.....pretty good structure....here's a pic.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4333/img7694.jpg

[Ric Burney]

I didn't get to chase Tuesday, the storms came to me. I was at work and managed to capture a few shots of the north and south storms west of the DFW area. The south storm ended up hailing on the Rangers game in Arlington. The north storm certainly did look more interesting. Here's a few pics from atop a building near downtown Dallas around 8:00 p.m. looking westward(ish).
http://www.geocities.com/numist/wx05262009.html

[Paul Sherman]

Found a nice Viewpoint on the SW Side of DFW Yesterday but did not envisage the Left Split which effectively cut us off as we could not get back through the Rush Hour traffic, the Southern cell still gave us Golfball Sized Hail as some enjoyment before finishing at Weatherford for the night

[Mike Krzywonski]

We were on the 1st severe cell that rapidly intensified. After it went linear, we tried to catch up to the long lived cell north of it, but it was dark by the time we were near it. We did have a great lightning display produced by the squall line that passed over our motel in Fort Worth.

[Kevin Myatt]

http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/weatherjournal/files/2009/05/wisetxstorm3.jpg

The Virginia Tech storm chasers were in Decatur, Texas, when the storm split occurred over Dallas-Fort Worth, so we were in excellent position (somewhat accidentally) to move slightly south and intercept the west side of left-mover as it moved north. (Photo linked here shows layered apperance of storm as we approached.) (http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/weatherjournal/files/2009/05/txstormchaselayers2.jpg)We observed a couple of lowerings and some rotation (http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/weatherjournal/files/2009/05/txstormchasecloudtags2.jpg) near a brief meso on radar along the storm's northwest corner. Later we moved north to near the Montague-Wise county line and were treated to a storm structure/lightning/sunset display over a ranchland setting. That was when we spotted the possible funnel cloud pictured, which was accompanied by noticeable rotation and even a clear slot (http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/weatherjournal/files/2009/05/txstormchasedonut2.jpg).