Hello from a raging thunderstorm in Plainsview, Texas!

We started the morning off in Tulsa, OK... yes... Tulsa... We drove a total of about 600 miles today! We headed west out of Tulsa toward the Texas Panhandle. The NWS SPC had upgraded the day to a MODERATE with a 10% hatched for tornadoes. Things evolved weirdly today as a bunch of storms were ongoing in the northern Texas Panhandle but they were in a poor environment. There were, however, really good looking storms down near Lubbock in a fantastic environment.

We decided to head south to get to those storms. As we got there, the one storm started looking really good. It produced a strongly rotating wall cloud and was very close to produced then that wallcloud dissipated. We followed with it and it produced another two two wallclouds before finally falling apart. It just couldn't get its act together enough to produce a tornado.

A very large tornado formed in the eastern Texas Panhandle which had been our original target which made today very frustrated... but that's storm chasing. Sometimes you score, sometimes you bust.

Tomorrow has potential for another active day but we're worried the current thunderstorms rolling through this area tonight may ruin the environment for tomorrow. We'll just have to wake up and see.

NWS SPC outlook for May 24.