Wednesday provided us a long chase, north of Amarillo in the Lake Meredith area. We worked our way north on US 287 and crossed the dam holding Lake Meredith by Sanford. A line of storms set up along a dry line, which also spurred storms in KS and down toward Lubbock. A couple of those storms spawned tornadoes that were reported o
n the ground, and the storms we chased also received tornado warnings. We did see a small funnel cloud, but it never developed into anything more impressive. The most intense action of the day was located in the triangle between Sanford, Borger and Fitch, TX. The supercells we were looking at were more HP (high precipitation) in character and had a good deal of hail with them as well. Many of the updrafts showed some rotation and the cell moved slowly providing ample time to watch it. The precipitation made photography a bit more challenging. We were able to stay with the storm for almost 6 hours, watching wall clouds, rotation, supercell structure, flanking lines, hail cores, 
lightning, and even rainbows. As the storms dissipated, we headed back to Amarillo for the night.
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