Chasecation 2013 Day 6 – Dust. Lots and lots of dust.
Today brought a Texas Panhandle chase as we set out from Amarillo and ended up on the storm Floydada. A few tornado reports came out for that storm, but I don’t know if anything we saw was actually a tornado (my first footage was from two minutes before the 6 E Floydada report at 1930z on the SPC page).
What we know we saw was lots and lots of dust, most of which was reddish and was getting either pulled into the storm or pushed out along the outflow boundary. It was quite the scene, with several gustnadoes also making an appearance along with a few choice CG bolts close to the area of interest at the base.
Here is what appeared to be a wall cloud from that storm, though it showed no rotation:
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