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Saturday, September 30, 2006
Posted
10:24 AM
by Amos Magliocco
From the Dallas Morning News: Cameras follow as families bounce back from tornado
Posted
1:41 AM
by Amos Magliocco
Friday, September 22, 2006
Posted
10:59 AM
by Amos Magliocco
We had headed north from Denton to Gainesville around 4:30 PM, then turned east on State Highway 82 and north on 377 to Madill. On our way, the original storm weakened and a new, southern cell grew dominant. A wall cloud was visible even from our northbound position with a steeply-tilted updraft and crisp convection on the back of the updraft tower. We were glad the dryline initiated convection before it had mixed too far east. When we stopped to observe the storm in daylight, some remarkable midlevel rotation and RFD funnels highlighted a striated updraft base with long inflow tails. Well before XM displayed rotation, it was clear our storm was spinning at least down low. Our distance from either the FTW or OUN Doppler sites accounted for the lack of data from the lower levels, we guessed. At Coleman, we tried a few poor roads east before shooting north to State Road 7, a maneuver that cost valuable time. The storm was ten to fifteen miles east of us for the rest of the night. We saw a cone-shaped lowering at one point, several suspicious lowerings, and at least three distinct power flashes, the latter confirmed by several in our group. The first set of powerflashes were so clustered and obvious that we called 9-1-1 to pass the information along. We were not able to locate a Skywarn network and didn't have our NWS numbers available. Later we ran into Jeff Snyder, Dan Dawson, Gabe Garfield and some friends of theirs at Sonic in Antlers. Eric and I were amazed we had come within 60 miles of the Arkansas border and commented that we had encountered more chasers and chase vehicles on this September night in bad chase country than in all May or June. Between Saturday and yesterday (and what may still happen later this afternoon and evening), it seems as if September intends to trump May as the best chase month of the year. I never expected to have chased twice in less than a week. (I went to the Texas Panhandle a week ago today--nothing of consequence to report.) As for imagery, I'll go through all the video I shot sometime this weekend, but I have low expectations. On a happier note, my Trego tornado is an inset on the October spread of the new weather calendar (2007 version not posted yet). Several friends of mine appear in the publication as well. Monday, September 18, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Posted
11:48 PM
by Amos Magliocco
Ann Richards was the first politician (and the last, really) who I “believed” in. I met her twice. The first time I was a sophomore at Baylor University, her alma mater, when she addressed a group of undergraduate students. The second time was at UNT, when I was an officer in the College Democrats and a volunteer with her campaign. When I mentioned that I had met her a few years earlier in Waco, she talked to me for a full five minutes about her memories of Baylor and college life, and this with a big crowd around and everyone eager to shake her hand. Her attention was so undivided that we might as well have been sitting side by side at the counter of a coffee shop. From her public life, what I remember most is a line from her consolation speech in 1994 when she said that “we tried to make a place at the table for all Texans.” "I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'" We remember. Happy trails, Governor Ann.
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