VORTEX2: May 25, 2009 - 15th. Operations provided for in the field: mini supercell.
Miles traveled today: 409. Total miles traveled: 4540.
The morning runs with no feelings in Amarillo pending the weather briefing that with the return to the U.S. Central time zone (-7 hours behind the Italian) and 're-scheduled for 10 am. The situation today sees the fair chance 'of training time already' in the early afternoon, however, the lack of good ventilation at high altitude (which is 'now a constant between different days) will not allow' a great organization to them. The most we can expect and 'that a storm can become long enough to collect data in a supercell.
The first destination is set in Clarendon to the south-east of Amarillo in eastern Texas panhandle. Lunch is organized in the shade of large trees in a rest area and then the wait continues for a couple of hours with a sky soon filled with small piles that create a perfect backdrop for photographs and filming Discovery Channel.
Miles traveled today: 409. Total miles traveled: 4540.
The morning runs with no feelings in Amarillo pending the weather briefing that with the return to the U.S. Central time zone (-7 hours behind the Italian) and 're-scheduled for 10 am. The situation today sees the fair chance 'of training time already' in the early afternoon, however, the lack of good ventilation at high altitude (which is 'now a constant between different days) will not allow' a great organization to them. The most we can expect and 'that a storm can become long enough to collect data in a supercell.
The first destination is set in Clarendon to the south-east of Amarillo in eastern Texas panhandle. Lunch is organized in the shade of large trees in a rest area and then the wait continues for a couple of hours with a sky soon filled with small piles that create a perfect backdrop for photographs and filming Discovery Channel.
In the afternoon the target is updated and move a few miles' south-east to Estelline.Qui you chat with the locals, which is celebrating Memorial Day with a big barbecue. Some piles have now reached the level of congested and
Uun begin to show some 'precipitation radar. The more 'vigorous passes right over our heads and we follow the evolution of the radar. After about twenty minutes comes the order that our first goal of the day and 'just this combination is that in the meantime and' becoming a real cumulonimbus developing a good anvil.
trying to reach the border with Oklahoma to have the radar and start collecting data, the cell begins to show some 'rotation in the lower layers so that when we reach the base appears apparent rotation, it is a mini supercell. Began collecting data with the usual system of mesonet, along with speed 'constant 30 mph road west-east. Unfortunately, however, 'the cell after a few tens of minutes showing signs of breaking and the radar signal is attenuated and we must abandon the goal before he had ordered the complex network strumentale.Sono are six in the afternoon and so' the presence of a ' other cells associated with a Thunderstorm warning (the warning that is issued by the national weather service, and if 'predicted that the storm could produce hail or strong winds) about fifty miles north-west of the first time requires the caravan to try to intercept it.
Although this cell as the first visually shows a beautiful structure with a line of piles arranged along a main incoming line nell'updraft anvil and well-formed but not particularly because of the low lying leeward winds at high altitudes. But unfortunately in the path towards 'this cell even after showing a bit' of the shear radar in the lower layers can not be organized in a more 'complex and so' after a long day on the streets of Texas and Oklahoma, to 20.30 comes the order closing operazioni.Oggi we covered 410 miles, 660 miles and worked hard but there 'need some extra help' from Mother Nature ...
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