May 25th report

Hello. We started the day in an overcast and misty Lubbock. The risk area today was broad but we decided to remain south of Amarillo in the central and southern Texas Panhandle. Storms were already firing over New Mexico, quite a way SW of Lubbock, and other storms soon formed along the dryline...the cap was weak.

We drove north to Tulia and then headed west after buying some lunch. Helen decided to slip off the running board of the car while rushing to get back in as a heavy shower was passing...luckily she didn't hurt herself but did a brief impression of a turtle on its back as she laid on the car park.

After this excitement we headed west to Dimmitt and then north to between Friona and Hereford. We observed a nice shelf cloud from a severe storm but this storm tended to fizzle as we headed NE.

The storms near Lubbock were becoming supercells and so we headed to Canyon and then south to Plainview...we drove under another developing supercell which gave blinding rain and some quarter sized hail.

At Plainview we got fuel whilst a nasty high precipitation supercell approached from the southwest, with 80mph winds warned for...it became tornado warned at this point. We decided to stay ahead of it, rather than dropping south for the next storm. We observed a funnel cloud but the contrast was very poor...a tornado was reported on the storm a bit later but we're not sure yet whether it was tornadic at the point we saw the funnel.

We went east with the storm along the same road as we drove yesterday, jogged north and east for a bit, and then decided to let it go and headed back to Lockney.

We then saw some cool turbulent skies lit up by the fairly low sun, and then headed to Plainview again...there was a lot of street flooding there.

We then headed north to Amarillo for the night, and had dinner with Nathan Edwards.

A big risk area again tomorrow...we'll decide on the target in the morning.