Yesterday after sleeping in, we drove from east central Oklahoma(Salisaw) to almost dead central Texas(Lampasas) from about 10:30 a.m to 7:00 pm(around 500 miles). Our goal was to intercept the storm closer to Brady, a town we actually stopped in on Monday, but ran out of time. The town of Brady received a tornado in the Supercell we eventually intercepted in Lampasas. We received reports from a fellow chasing group of wall clouds, funnel clouds, and dustnado: likely a tornado. The Supercell that drop that tornado hit us about 25 minutes later. In Lampasas we received damaging winds, torrential rainfall and about penny size hail. The torrential rainfall actually hurt us in the end because of major flash flooding. We were surrounded in a parking lot with all roads impassable. The hail size was a little disappointing with reports of Vil around 80. But the heavy rain probably encompassed alot of that. It was very encouraging to see the cell to start to hook over Brady but at the same time we wish we could have been there earlier. We took some screen shots of the doppler around the time when we think the Supercell was tornadoing. We also included some pictures of the Super cell from our point of view and borrowed some pictures from a friend who was in the Brady area.
A major lesson we are learning in this trip is core punching a Supercell is not the best or safe thing to do. However due to time constraints and road locations core punching the supercells was our only option in seeing the storm. Using updated imagery we felt that both storms weren't conducive of producing a tornado at that time or location so we felt that weren't endangering our selfs too much.
We our taking it easy tonight so more pictures and video up later.
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