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April 20-22, 2010 - TX Panhandle

3 days in April, which could only be described as the classic definition of a classic system. It was a stint of days where we couldn't lose. It was just perfect. 11 tornadoes in 3 days, all confined within 100 miles of my home in Amarillo
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Tornado maxes out in width only a mile from me (and this random guy that leaves after he takes this).
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Tornado maxes out in width only a mile from me (and this random guy that leaves after he takes this).

  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> Looking due west out of the edge of Amarillo.
  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> Now in the town of Bushland looking west. The meso spins and a wall cloud forms in the center.
  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> 4 miles west of Bushland, looking west at this rapidly rotating cone funnel. Its strange...the entire base looks sloppy and there's no clear RFD cut from my angle...
  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> Regardless the funnel tightens up and a tornado condensates all the way down. Everyone that was around me flees quickly.
  • Tornado maxes out in width only a mile from me (and this random guy that leaves after he takes this).
  • I start moving closer but large hail prevented me from getting really close. The tornado shrinks away as the traffic continues.
  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> Funnel hasn't moved at all, and now the main show has lifted but this bowl funnel is still spitting vortices out.
  • April 20, 2010<br /> <br /> Later, after fighting the core, I try for another intercept. Only this time the storm becomes a massive high precipitation supercell. So a nice sunset will have to do.
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  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> My first glimpse of my first storm, driving south on I-27 near Tulia, TX.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Gaining a supercellular look. Still looking south.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Now driving east out of Plainview, TX on HWY 70.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Trying to get a pic out the window, and catch a fly instead.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Cleaned lens now. Still driving eastward nearing the town of Lockney. Absolute nuclear bomb of an updraft with over-shooting top.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Incredible mixture of colors as I get behind the storm. This was a few miles east of Lockney, looking northeast.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Panoramic of the previous shot.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Our storm becomes HP garbage. This small storm turned into a classic LP storm.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> Soon it transferred into a mini-supercell as it corkscrewed above us.
  • April 21, 2010<br /> <br /> This was a difficult shot I took. This is basically a 90° vertical panoramic.
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