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April 16, 2015 - TX Panhandle Tornadoes

This was an iffy day in terms of where we'd be chasing. Either northeastern or southeast panhandle. Turns out, it was right in between. After witnessing the Conway, TX spinup, and driving in a massive circle, we finally headed the storm off north of McLean. We watched as the storm began to ramp upwith a surging RFD, and I made a last second decision to not bail east of the storm. This paid off as A) we were the only chaser a mile ahead or behind us, leaving us with a nice empty road, and B) gave us a somewhat close view of the tornado that ensued near Kellerville, TX. After the intercept, we went east into Wheeler noting lots of hail and flooding. We called it a day with steak from Big Vern's Steakhouse in Shamrock.

Video link to the Kellerville tornado. https://youtu.be/oHxK11jOi-U
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The rain and edges ofthe wall cloud were rapidly moving from west to east. Faint edges can be seen here.
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The rain and edges ofthe wall cloud were rapidly moving from west to east. Faint edges can be seen here.

  • The storm west of Conway begins to reach eastward towards the outflow boundary.
  • The storm latches onto the boundary and begins rotating fast. Then plumes of dirt swirl underneath this rotation.
  • The weak tornado spins for about 3 minutes before dissipating.
  • This was a new wall cloud developing west of Kellerville. It wasn't organized at the time but there was some definite rotation.
  • The wall cloud was split by the RFD cut, which meant this wasn't the main feature to watch.
  • This is where the business was happening. The wet RFD was surging towards us.
  • The following are heavily edited screenshots from the video. We let the RFD come on top of us. We sat for a bit before the wall cloud became somewhat visible.
  • The rain and edges ofthe wall cloud were rapidly moving from west to east. Faint edges can be seen here.
  • Tornado becoming slightly better in view.
  • We could hear the roar the entire time of filming this. We knew the tornado was likely large and strong. Luckily there's not a single thing to hit out here.
  • This is where we got the best view of the tornado. The outer edges became very apparent.
  • It was twisting and drilling about a mile to our north.
  • We were getting blasted with strong RFD from the SW. Hard to keep the camera steady.
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  • Fairly large and stout stovepipe tornado.
  • We soon after lost the tornado thanks to a few trees and the wet RFD completely shielding the tornado in rain. We drove a few miles SSE and stopped, and could still hear a definite roar in the rain.
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