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.


Exciting evening in north Texas

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