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Pictures are on top, with the log just below. Mesoscale discussions, Watches and Warnings, as well as a Preliminary Damage Report are located at the very bottom (added as available, and time permits for me to add them.

At around 5:48pm CST -  Looking north-northeast Supercells seen from NWS Amarillow, TX Office	At around 6:44pm CST -  Looking northeast "Hailbow" A rainbow in a hail shaft.
At around X:XXpm CST -  Looking N S E W Massive Convective Development.	At around 7:15pm CST -  Looking North Looking at a funnel cloud directly overhead.
GALLERY OF ALL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS DAY

Log for Thursday, may 16th, 2002

The chase is ON.

Once again I am out on the Great Plains to find some severe weather. Preferably tornado, large supercells, large hail, and anything assocted with with major storms.

The day started earyly. Actually it was a continuation of the previous day for me, since I spent all night preparing for departure. Leaving the house aroudn 4:30am to make my 7:30am flight out of Reagan-National Airport was not easy. I made my flight, with multiple adjustments in my luggage packing. Nonetheless I arrived in Dallas-Fort Worth around 10:00am Central Time Zone. I picked up the rental, call Jeff (of Weathervine), and headed north and then west. My route today would be I-35 to Oklahoma City, but was modified to US 82 west. US 82 to US 287 all the way into Amarillo, Texas, the final destination for today.

Jeff and Chris were intercepting storms up in Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle all day. As I arrived into Amarillo, NWS had severe wx warnings up, as well as a watch box. I hesitated to intercept for a couple of reasons including, I was in a rental which was not the primary chase vehicle. I also had not set-up all the radio equipment, or was prepared to chase (since I so quickly jumped into the car at the airport). But after about an hour of sitting at NWS amarillo, watching the fully developed storms to the north go by, I decided to intercept. There were so close afterall. So traveled east on US 60 to Rt 207 north into Borges, TX. Then on to Stinnett. In those two towns I got some amazing shots of nice severe storms and supercell developement. I was quite impressed for the the first day. Afterwards I got some lightning shots once the sun went down. A local came by and told me there was a tornado nearby, which was no suprise to me the way the storms looked even though there were no warnings or watches for tornadoes (there were Svr wx watchs adn warnings in the area though).

After the day was done, I contacted Jeff, to see were he was and try to intercept him. At that time he informed me that they bagged a tornado too. We decided to meet on US 60 east of Amaerillow, and get a hotel room. Unfortunately I fell asleep in the car on US 60 and they didn't find where I was parked, they continued to the hotel room wondering were the hell I was. I didn't wake up untill 4am with the ham radio microphone still in my hand. I took two more hours of sleep, got up, and called around 8am and meet them at the super8 hotel in amarillo.

That was the end of Day

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Storm Prediction Center:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/020516_rpts.html

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