Jenell Markowski’s sister and fiance (aka Andrea and Blake) in Frisco, Texas, took one for the team last night—perfectly positioned to sample forward-flank baroclinicity just north of the updraft in the supercell that tracked north of Dallas. Here’s a photo of the hail (photo by Andrea smith, hand modeling by Blake Hunter):
Here’s the 0000 UTC Ft. Worth sounding. Impressive shear, but the LCL is a bit high. Probably explains why so few storms were tornadic last night. The Frisco storm seemed to be struggling with a lot of outflow on the lowest elevation angle scans from the KFWS radar.