April 22, 2015 - TX Panhandle Supercells
A rather local chase for me. A triple point was setting up in the western TX Panhandle with some modest bulk shear over the area. The first storm fired in western Deaf Smith county and rolled through my hometown of Hereford. I was slightly concerned the storm might ramp up and drop a tube, but luckily it didn't. Just a lot of wind and hail luckily. We followed the storm while playing cat and mouse with the RFD all day long until we got to northern Floyd county. By this time I was tired of running from the wind/hail and decided to bail south for some structure. Then this small supercell near Lockney decided to go bonkers. So we started to drive west when it decided to drop a small brief tornado. We stayed for a bit to watch the structure before diving south. The storm looked messy but dropped the weakest tornado known to man north of Floydada. Afterwards it was apparent the storm was done. We celebrated with some food and beer in Plainview.
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