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Written by Roger Hill

2011

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April 25th took me to Texas. Early day indications looked like northeast Texas would be a sweet spot. We headed early to Paris only to be disappointed by early afternoon convection that was slightly elevated. Meanwhile a tornadic supercell developed southwest of Ft Worth and produced at least 2-3 tornadoes before we could recover and make the 130 mile trek. We did catch up to it near Itasca, TX and encountered a pretty structured supercell that produced two brief tornadoes between Itasca and Hillsboro.  Nothing worse than being 130 miles from a nice supercell and hearing about the tornadoes that occured before you have a chance to reach it! Click on an image for a larger photograph.

Panoramic view (5 shots combined!) of the supercell west of Itasca, TX.

Wall cloud forms and is rotating.	Funnel forms west of Itasca.
Funnel gets bigger and briefly touches down.	Funnel is 3/4 of the way to the ground and has occasional debris clouds.
Second skinny rope tornado was in full contact with the ground before we could get stopped and out to film it.