We bought some lunch for later and set off to the north, to Fort Davis. We spent a little while here looking at some data and then continued to the north, on the road to Toyahvale and Balmorhea.
This route was pretty stunning, with lots of rocky outcrops and mountains, and quite a large area of basalt columns - very pretty.
We paused towards Toyahvale and chatting with Dan, Pete and Steve, who were also there. A storm had formed back to the south but there was also one to the west. We continued north and then north-west but watched as this storm faded in an LP supercell fashion. The lads decided to head back south onto the other storm, which looked quite interesting - but we decided to stick it out with further storms developing to our west.
One became dominant and turned into a supercell - we dropped a little south to a higher vantage point and watched it for a while. We then headed a bit further south as precip was starting to hide the updraught but the viewing to the south was hemmed in by mountains. Nevertheless we stopped and watched the area of rotation loom over some craggy peaks - in the quiet desert air we could hear the approaching precipitation cascade - several CG lightning bolts landed fairly close-by.
The rain arrived and we dropped a bit south - but then decided to head north to inspect the core...some 1 inch hail then started falling, which we reported - but the storm was never severe warned.
We went back and forth into and out of the hail - in the end the storm passed, and we decided to head to Pecos for the night, but stopped back at the previous higher vantage point to watch another storm for a while, and again north of I-10 for some lightning pics.
All in all a fun chase day.
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