Abilene Texas Tornadic Supercell, Panhandle LP

New tornado watch issued for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and Western Texas and Oklahoma. Spoke to a few of my fellow Storm Chasers, and they are just about into the target area for this afternoons expected Tornadic Supercells along the dryline.

Things look to be getting underway here soon, and this is why the new watch area is up. There is another active tornado watch in southeastern Colorado as well.

I’ll be monitoring from this point on to radar and chaser updates. I’ll try and updates as any information about a storm or report feeds in. Could be a busy evening…

Update: 9:53pm ET

Tornado - Supercell Abilene, Texas 4/23/07 The Texas Panhandle Supercell didn’t turn out to be all that much this evening. A nice LP Supercell developed not far from Pampa, Texas and several chasers stayed on this cell to the end. It never produced any tornadoes. On the other hand, much further south, way south, in a area where the cap was the strongest, a large tornadic Supercell developed. This was the storm in the radar grab with this post. The storm was located southeast of Lubbock and west of Abilene, Texas. Storm Spotters and/or Storm Chasers reported a large tornado on the ground with this cell. This was no surprise to me and others chatting tonight as the radar presentation of this cell was very impressive. It had a well developed hook and V-Notch presentation on radar. This massive Supercell thunderstorm was out there all by it’s self, feeding off all the moisture. At this time the cell continues and is nearing the Abilene, Texas area.

Other nice Supercells developed today and produced some tornadoes. Western Kansas saw a nice tornadic Supercell and chasers were on this cell and documented a tornado. Another confirmed tornado was in northwest Oklahoma.

So the day didn’t turn out to be as big of a event, but there were still some impressive tornado reports from the day. Tomorrow looks to be even more of a severe weather outbreak and further east over the central and southern Plains. Oklahoma, southern Kansas and North Texas could be in for a impressive show of severe weather on Tuesday.

Expected to be a busy day tomorrow, so check back for updates from todays chase reports and tomorrow severe weather possible outbreak over the southern Plains states.

Update: 10:39pm ET - More Tornadoes Reports

Looks like there are more tornadic Supercell ongoing now than earlier this evening. Unfourtanlly there are very dangerous storms producing tornadoes now after dark. There is a impressive Supercell just east of Goodland, Kansas at this hour that likely has produced a tornado. Also the Sweetwater / Abilene Texas Tornadic Supercell continues and is moving just to the north of Abilene at this time. Baseball size hail was recently reported on the north end of Sweetwater, Texas. Another new developing Supercell looks to be taking shape southeast of Lubbock, Texas, and another newer cell that looks like a Supercell has formed in northeast Colorado. All of these ongoing cells remain very isolated and have all the surrounding atmosphere to work with without having to fight with other storms.

I just wanted to update on this a little more since things looked to have increased in storm coverage wise over the last hour. Also of note, several Storm Chasers are now reporting a few tornado interceptions this evening. One report coming out of Kansas where two tornadoes were document at the same time on the ground. I’ll try and post more details in the morning post.

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