- May 22 2025 - Palo Pinto, Texas
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- Today’s target was southern Oklahoma/Northern
Texas, so we blasted out from Amarillo and drove along 1-40,
then south to Altus, OK for lunch. We weren't expecting much
today, messy storms at best, but Mother Nature gave treated us
to something very nice. An isolated cell popped up south of the
Red River in Texas, and it was relatively slow moving. We had
our target.
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- We caught up to the storm near Seymour
and it didn't look too remarkable at first, but as we continued
to chase it to the town of Olney, it really began to take shape.
It was an isolated storm, out ahead of the rest of the messy
convection, so it had the opportunity to hold its strength. Near
the town of Graham, it really started to take on a classic “stacked
plates” appearance. We repositioned to try and get a better
view near Palo Pinto. It was a gorgeous, low-precipitation supercell,
and while it basically had no chance of dropping a tornado, it
was clearly rotating like a top with a spiral, corkscrew updraft.
We stopped for more photos and posed for an amazing group shot
in front of the storm.
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- We reluctantly had to leave the storm
in order to get some miles underneath us for our target area
tomorrow up in Kansas near the Colorado state line. As we departed,
the setting sun lit up the storm’s mammatus clouds with
a pastel, almost purplish hue. We continued into the night, arriving
at around midnight in Elk City Oklahoma.
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