Hotel location:  Liberal, KS Intercept location:  Booker, TX Data was collected on a long-lived tornadic supercell that developed in the northeastern Texas Panhandle and moved into the Oklahoma Panhandle.  At…

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Hotel location:  Chadron, NE Intercept location:  Last Chance, CO Two supercells were intercepted.  The first was non-tornadic but was sampled well by the mobile mesonet. Second cell formed south.  A…

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Hotel location:  Ft. Morgan, CO Intercept location:  Scottsbluff/Mitchell, NE Two tornadic supercells in the Nebraska panhandle.  The first increased in speed and moved out of reach of the VORTEX2 array…

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Hotel location:  Loveland, CO Intercept location:  Tribune, KS VORTEX2 deployed on a cyclic, weakly tornadic supercell in western Kansas.  Among the test cases sampled in VORTEX2 given the simultaneous collection…

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Hotel location:  Amarillo, TX Intercept location: Dumas, TX VORTEX2 intercepted a long-lived supercell in the northern Texas panhandle that developed along a dryline.  The storm produced a number of weak…

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Morning location:  Weatherford, OK Intercept location:  Clinton, OK VORTEX2 intercepted a high-precipitation supercell in southwest Oklahoma the developed along a dryline.  Storms were moving at 30-35mph to the northeast.  A…

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Hotel location:  Perry, OK Intercept location:  Seminole, OK An outbreak of tornadoes occurred in central and eastern OK.  Supercell motions were very fast, ranging from 50-60mph.  Given the fast motions,…

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Hotel location:  Sterling, CO Intercept location:  La Grange, WY VORTEX2 targeted a right-moving supercell that formed north of Cheyenne, WY. An X-Band radar was sampling the storm as mobile mesonets…

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I decided to take a different approach to discussing the VORTEX2 best cases. I will discuss them by day. Read on to find out why!