May 25, 2009 Elk City, OK
Last day out with VORTEX2, we targeted an area near Childress, TX where decent llvl moisture existed along with several preexisting outflow boundaries. Convection struggled to get going initially with several attempts across the eastern TX panhandle that soon failed to effectively break through the capping inversion. Eventually, a storm became sustained along an outflow boundary and developed into a supercell near Elk City, OK. We headed north to intercept and arrived to decent structure with a modest meso and persistent lowering. Riding with the CSWR mesonet team, we performed a few transects to collect data while continuing visual observations. The storm soon weakened with a second storm developing across the NE TX panhandle. This storm proved to be out of reach, and we called it a day observing a nice sunset behind the storm’s anvil.



