When storm chasing there are often days where it's just better to be lucky than good.
Deep in west texas, north of Midland, I'd wait for a storm to form in my target area
and potentially produce a tornado later in the day.
Instead, my target storm would never materialize. So I headed to Midland to check out a complete
mess that had formed instead.
I travelled for hours from storm, to storm, to storm, to storm. All of them messy, high
based, and unlikely to produce a tornado.
By 5 pm I was looking for the location of the nearest Applebees.
Alright fine I'll give it one more shot, I went south back onto the original storm that
sort of seemed to be getting its act together. It was tough to tell, the local midland odessa
radar was offline. Making it difficult to decide what to target. And of course, visually
they all looked like total garbage.
Some chasers saw a brief spin up under a rotating wall cloud. Officially a tornado but basically
nothing to write home about.
And then I got a phone call from John. The San Angelo radar was picking up a new mesocyclone
that was almost certainly going to produce a tornado just to my east. Unfortunately,
it's over a giant road hole with few options to translate out in
front
of it.
After the tornado lifted I repositioned further south, really the only direction I could go.
A new tornado formed but quicky wrapped itself in rain.
To cap it all off, this storm had an imperial nebraska 2019 appearance to it, but with a
tornado. Can't ask for more.
One of the tornadoes would cause damage to a gas electrical plant. Damage surveys are
still ongoing as I post this video.
Stay with your storm. Don't panic if things don't look perfect at first.
That evening I'd capture dozens of high intensity jellyfish sprites. But I'll leave the rest
of those to some future videos.
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this! Until the next one, I'll see out there.