The morning analysis showed a triple point setup with the dryline intersecting the outflow from last night's storms somewhere west of Amarillo.
Thing is, the convergence was so strong along the boundary and the capping so weak north of it that the storms started going up shortly after noon. They were all outflow-dominant and all ended up very quickly on the north side of the boundary.
One storm in particular looked good on RADAR but because it was north of the boundary it had very little tornado chance. Acting on a hunch, I made a bet with Paul that that storm would get tornado warned.
I won myself a Coke.
We went for dinner in Amarillo and then went outside to see storms off to our southwest. We decided to try for some lightning shots so set off to Hereford. The storm decided to get really spinny and hooky, and it got tornado warned. We went up close to see what it looked like, illuminated by the lightning. It was pretty outflowy, supported by the outflow winds in it, and so we came back to Amarillo.
The hotel, which we had booked about 8 hours earlier, didn't have our rooms ready. 8 hours. Are you kidding me?
Tomorrow looks like today except with a more westerly component to the 500 mb winds. Wish us luck!
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