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April 29-30, 2000 Texas Chase
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This chase was going to be my first full blown chase vacation. April 29th 2000 is the day I had been waiting for. I'd been waiting half a year for the vacation to start. During the week prior to my vacation I began pinning down my target area. There was a large low across the 4 corners region. This low would move extremely slow. It ends up taking an entire week to move form western New Mexico to eastern Texas. On the 29th a dryline was forecast to move east into western Texas during the afternoon. On the 30th the low was forecast a bit more east and would set up shop over northwest Texas. This was looking like a good chase vacation. Friday night (April 28th) I figured my target area would be the Guymon Oklahoma area. Early the next morning, before leaving Nebraska I changed my target area to a bit east of the Lubbock area. I needed to make good time to make it from near Omaha to near Lubbock by afternoon. I left Blair Nebraska just before 6:00 AM. Around 12:30 I was just north of Oklahoma City. It was mostly cloudy with scattered sprinkles. This was the reminents of overnight storms. The storms of the day would fire up on an outflow boundary left by these storms. As I moved west of Oklahoma City the clouds slowly broke up. By the time I was on the Texas/Oklahoma border it was wall to wall sunshine and becoming quite humid.
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