Becoming the chased – May 29, 2013

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1W0lKmnLpE

Our trip took us south out of Dodge City to the NE Texas Panhandle where we watched a line of severe thunderstorms develop to our south, and an isolated LP storm approach from the southwest.  Model data suggested that storm mode would be messy and that’s pretty much what we ended up with as our isolated storm weakened, and the blob over the eastern panhandle developed into a raging bowing line segment with embedded circulations as it surged into W Oklahoma.  We fought hard to get in front of the line to do some time lapse, but we never put much space between us and it as it moved at nearly 60 mph.  We made a stand near Seiling and got a bit of time lapse before we were run over with 60 mph winds and small hail.  From there, it was a short hop back to Okarche.

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