[Part 1 of 3] Shivering in howling easterlies with a measured temperature of 61 degrees F, this is not normally the scene that would come to mind: the bowl-shaped condensation funnel of a mature tornado, with sporadic subvortices swirling beneath. Yet there we were, and that it was. The parent supercell was the “Tail-End Charlie” of three that formed south of a warm front in the Dalhart, TX to Boise City, OK corridor, each of which spun up similarly shaped tornadoes as it moved into an outflow-reinforced warm-frontal zone that was cool, but just buoyant enough, and rich with low-level cyclonic vorticity. [Go to Part 2]
4 W Conlen TX (30 May 21) Looking WNW
36.2351, -102.3135