Friday 18th May 2018 - OK/TX - Enhanced Risk

We awoke in Liberal for the final chase day for Tour 1 knowing that we could not get suckered too far north due to the changeover day tomorrow in DFW. Around 3pm a Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued and after a nice lunch in the Cattlemans Steak House in Canadian we set off for the Pampa area where the dryline was converging and that was where it looked like initiation would occur. We got onto the first storm of the day which quickly became a Supercell and viewed some nice lightning from Miami. Other storms had now popped off along the dryline and the top one went Tornado Warned so we gave it a chase upto Perryton but it quickly became clear the storm was very High Based so left it and headed back to the Tail end Charlie Supercell which itself was still really high based no surprise with 95/59 spreads in the Panhandle. Around 8pm and with activity waning we started our long journey back south, booked rooms in Childress and Tour 1 ended their chase with some amazing Mammatus.A great Tour 1 with some challenging synoptics and no real classic looking chase days. We chased in 7 States and did 4,065 miles, we saw 1 Tornado and the biggest Hail we saw was Baseball.