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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Feb 23, 2007 McLean, TX Tornado Chase



Here's our crew for the case ((c) Jketcham) Tony, Myself and Michael after our successful tornado intercept!

Tornado at it's most pronounced. We are viewing it through the powerpoles over McLean, TX as the tornado moves north of town.


Rotation moves over I-40 as a funnel aloft.




Intercepted the tornado that came south of I-40 and moved over McLean, TX then touched down briefly north of town before dissipating. Chasing with Michael and Tony Laubach. We started the morning in Garden City, KS - drove south and west through western OK while checking data all the way. Tony's tethered mobile phone proved to be priceless as we were able to see the SPC mesoanalysis pages and target eastern TX panhandle.


First Tornado in Feb and first in Texas! 2007 is off to a great start!

Michael and I made it onto the 5:00pm and 10:00pm News 7 abc broadcast.






The SPC storm archive page for this date is available here:




Mileage: 1150
Motel Stays: 1

4 comments:

Sean Mullins said...

Congrats, Its going to be a great year for chasing.

Tony Laubach said...

Lets hope this is the start of a great season! Congrats again! This was an absolute BLAST!!!

Anonymous said...

Great pics and video! Congrats on, what an amazing first chase of the season!

Joey Ketcham

wxman said...

That was a great video..i love the background music mix as well..Cool!