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It really wasn't too windy at Killington yesterday, but stayed mostly overcast and chilly til like 130PM, thereafter softening a little bit. So it was either icy groomers or frozen, cruddy moguls with some windblown pow in the troughs. Almost everyone on the hill opted for the former, and we had the latter to basically to ourselves. Took a little getting used to and some human groomin but it got pretty damn fun and we ended up with over 25k vert of battle skiing. Nice leg workout.

crazy 60 here.

869 NOUS44 KFWD 132054 PNSFWD TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-132200- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 354 PM CDT WED APR 13 2022 ...SALADO TORNADO INFORMATION... SURVEY TEAMS HAVE CONFIRMED A HIGH-END EF-3 WITH MAXIMUM WINDS AROUND 165 MPH TRACKED ACROSS SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY AND INTO THE SALADO AREA TUESDAY EVENING (APRIL 12TH). THE TORNADO BEGAN IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, BUT THE TRACK IN BELL COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE NEARLY 13 MILES LONG WITH A DURATION OF ABOUT 30 MINUTES. STORM SURVEY TEAMS ARE CURRENTLY ENROUTE BACK TO THE OFFICE AND MORE INFORMATION WILL BE RELEASED THIS EVENING WHEN THE TEAMS HAVE RETURNED. SEE THE PREVIOUS PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT RELEASED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE OTHER 2 TORNADOES FROM THE APRIL 12TH EVENT. $$ JLDUNN

by and large a bust for most... some low end severe hail aside. Nice stovepipe further south however.

Looks like Kevin should get some nice cells ripping through DFW in a little while

FWD doing launches at 18z and 20z also

yeah, some early cap cannon fodder... maybe subsequent attempts might do a little better later on

DFW 20z sounding

you may have been correct there... FWD saying the cap has substantially weakened based on aircraft data

Those cells must have originated above the EML, it was pretty darn stout at 12z. I think that could be why the mesos didn't resolve that activity, with no obvious forcing and a capped environment. Anyway, not sure about the cap implications later on, but I do think your point about possible boundaries could be good one if they don't mix out beforehand. If something surface based managed to pop it would have the atmosphere totally to itself and look out... but even if it's just another elevated cell or two it could still produce severe hail.

Some early, poorly modeled, elevated cells moving through DFW with non-severe hail. But definitely supercell structure. Pretty classic conditional risk later on today as the instability builds with no obvious trigger but a favorable wind field. Could be some picturesque conditions.

Perfect timing. Conditional risk Monday and Weds could be ok too with the fropa. I've been down there for 16 confimed tors a few weeks ago and 6 more last week. Let's keep it going.

Dime size hail Edit- just under actually

That's an impressive little cell

Yeah we just got a couple close ones here too in the last few minutes

EF1 confirmed in Ellis county near Midlothian

EF2 in Johnson County and an EF1 in Collin county confirmed so far

Helluva BWER in Alvarado earlier

Got pounded with nickels, maybe larger, and super heavy rain Farmers Branch along 635 earlier.

Some sun now in Farmers Branch, but just drove from Tarrant county and was much sunnier over there.

Great game. Maybe a few too many whistles but on the whole it lived up to the billing.

A well embedded EF1 was confirmed in Rockwall County from early this morning: 57 NOUS44 KFWD 302026 PNSFWD TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-302130- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 326 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2022 ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 03/30/22 WEATHER EVENT... .OVERVIEW... A BRIEF TORNADO EMBEDDED WITHIN A LINE OF STORMS IMPACTED THE BLUEBONNET RANCH NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE MCLENDON- CHISHOLM AREA OF ROCKWALL COUNTY. OTHER DAMAGE IN THE AREA WAS DETERMINED TO BE CAUSED BY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. .MCLENDON-CHISHOLM... RATING: EF1 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 100 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.492 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50.0 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: 03/30/2022 START TIME: 04:34 AM CDT START LOCATION: 2 ESE MCLENDON-CHISHOLM / ROCKWALL COUNTY / TX START LAT/LON: 32.834 / -96.3474 END DATE: 03/30/2022 END TIME: 04:36 AM CDT END LOCATION: 3 E MCLENDON-CHISHOLM / ROCKWALL COUNTY / TX END LAT/LON: 32.84 / -96.3427 SURVEY SUMMARY: A BRIEF TORNADO, LIKELY EMBEDDED WITHIN STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IMPACTED A FEW HOMES ON CANDICE CIRCLE TO THE EAST OF MCLENDON- CHISHOLM. THE TORNADO BEGAN NEAR BLUEBONNET DR WHERE A FEW TREES WERE DAMAGED. ON CANDICE CIRCLE, THE PORTE-COCHERE OF ONE HOME COLLAPSED, AND THE ATTACHED ROOF BROKE OFF THE GARAGE. POLES WERE ALSO BENT AROUND A BASKETBALL COURT. NEXT DOOR, THE TORNADO CAUSED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE TOP FLOOR ATTIC OF THE HOUSE, MOVED SEVERAL TRAILERS, AND DESTROYED A SHED. THE TORNADO CONTINUED A SHORT DISTANCE DOWN THE ROAD AND LIKELY LIFTED IN THE FIELD NORTHEAST OF THE HOMES. &&

Killington is knocking down their main lodge and parking apparently is extremely limited over there. I'm sure the construction contractors would rather have the ski crowd be gone asap. Not really sure what they're going to do once Bear Mt lodge closes for the season. I've always been partial to the Bear Mt lodge anyway.

Not just Superstar either... the guns were going on Snowdon yesterday too. Superstar was unskiable yesterday, even Skyelark was very low vis from the wind. Nice job by them.

Killington skied wonderfully well... Catwalk -> Big Dipper was where it was at. Laps and laps.