Hello from Amarillo, Texas!

Quite a day today... we started the morning in Plainview, TX and were generally in the target area for the day so we took our time, had a late breakfast, then started heading south to Lubbock. On our way storms were already initiating which was about 2-3 hours earlier than most models were predicting. 

We got to Lubbock and headed southwest toward Ropesville where one storm cell in particular was looking good. We watched it for a while and it had a decent wall cloud on it then it dissipated and became outflow dominant. It did that another couple of times so we repositioned further east ahead of it but not after driving through its core which had no hail it in but a lot of rain. 

A storm was getting its act together a bit further east toward Wayside so we went to try and meet up with it. By the time we got there, it had a wall cloud but much like the last storm, dissipated and became outflow dominant. We could tell the storms were done so we decided to call it a day and head for Amarillo for the evening. Now comes the scary part... we had to get to the I-27 to head north but between us and there was a very flooded and flooding highway 82.

We got to Crosbyton, stopped briefly, then decided to continue west toward Lubbock. That was an intense drive... section of the road were under a foot of water. Some of it was still, some of it was flowing. All the while, it was raining and hailing (small hail). If we stayed where we were, we would have been caught in the flooding so we pushed on. We finally made it out of all the flooding and eventually got to Lubbock where we proceeded north.

Amarillo puts us in a good position for tomorrow's ENHANCED risk keep southeast Colorado, southwest Kansas, and the Oklahoma and Texas Pandhandles all in play. We'll assess further in the morning and decide our play. We're also going to hit up the Big Texan tonight and get ourselves some steak!