Thursday 23rd May 2019 - Tx Panhandle (Moderate Risk)

We started the day in Tulsa with a massive 5 hour slog across Oklahoma into the Texas Panhandle just east of Amarillo. SPC had a 10% Risk for Tornadoes today with a 45% Hatched area for Hail. The set up today would be a stationery boundary that would/should lift north through the day as a warm front. Once again visibility was dreadful with storm around 25 miles away not being able to be seen again, so we had to head north towards Pampa to see them and then onto Perryman and the Spearman area.Once North there seemed to be 3 Supercell lined up South to North and we ventured into the middle one to have a look at the main action area. 5 Miles out we could just see a grey mass but go to within 2 miles and there was a rotating wall cloud, the storm though looked very cold which maybe meant it had crossed the front or was being undercut. Our focus now would be the southern most storm down near Skellytown, this was clearly still in the Warm Sector. We headed east to keep ahead of the precip on FM281 across to Highway 83. Around this time the Tail End Storm split and the top split came towards us and then started to right turn gaining an almost instant Tornado Warning. Our view south and west was very good and we could even by now see the southern most storm which also gained a Tornado Warning. The middle storm which was closest to us looked very HP so we plotted a course south towards Canadian to intercept. This would be a costly mistake as the storm just 5 miles to our North West cleared out all the Precip and a massive Wedge Tornado was visible for all pretty much in the place we had stopped at 15 minutes earlier. You win some and you lose some in the chase world but it was not going to stop me from chasing and getting a Tornado today. We continued on towards the town of Lipscombe and watched the final cell of the day just to our west and our patience paid off when a beautiful dusk cone Tornado planted on the road in front of us. Pic Credit Sam Whyman belowThe Tornado was visible to us for 5 minutes before wrapping in rain, our only roads to keep up with the storm were north and east and we came pretty close to the tornado North of Lipscombe before getting out in front and shooting lighnting before ending the day in Woodward. A really great storm chase today and number 10 on the board for Tour 2.