As I understand it right now one tornado did touch down in the Greenville Texas area (about 10 miles or so to my east-northeast) and caused some damage there.
Any way, thunderstorms formed well out ahead of the front on Friday with cape values over 500j/kg. The first wave was not very significant as far as I could tell... although it was apparent that weak little mesoes were trying to form in the broken line of storms here and there. When this line past over my house there was little, if any, structure to be seen and a brief down poor. Once the line of storms pushed off to my east one little cell within the cluster developed some decent rotation and produced damage in Greenville. One Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued and I am not entirely sure if it was for that particular cell or not. The thing is once the initial line had passed over my house I did not pay that much attention to any of it.
However, the cold front still hadn't arrived and was lagging about 50+ miles behind the initial line of storms and the sky had cleared ahead of the front allowing temperatures to climb well into the 70's with dewpoints still in the mid 60's. This allowed the cape to climb to 1000+ j/kg.
A squall line quickly exploded on the front as it neared the Collin County/Denton County line. And that is when I started taking pictures. The cells were strongly sheared over and so all the towers were leaning well eastwards as the line approached. And being newly developed cells that were highly sheared towards the east sunlight was hitting the backsides quite unobstructed. This made for some cool light coming through the undersides of the storms.
As of now it looks like the thunderstormy weather will be done for quite some time... unless Monday's system can drag more gulf air up than is currently forecasted. Any way, its time for a break in the exciting weather and time to start thinking about school finals and the holidays.
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