Today’s chase was a little more sedate than yesterday but the challenge of navigating across minor dirt roads and the genuine fear of being hit by severe hail kept it very interesting.

We started the day in Amarillo with a large area of enhanced risk across most of Western Texas, it looked like the odds of a storm were higher South so we set our sights on Lubbock initially.

When the SPC (Storm Prediction Centre) issued a tornado watch We decided keep heading South toward Abilene.

As the models updated we decided to stay around Snyder TX and wait for storms to fire up along the dry line. After a couple of hours waiting our patience paid off.

Storms started firing West of Lemesa and we got a great view of several storms just starting to develop into the classic anvil shape of a supercell.

As we chased our first target for the day and stopped to get this photo a storm that was barely visible on radar just West of Ackerly started producing lightning just as our original target started to lose mommentum.

As this storm grew we started a game of cat and mouse tying to find roads to get us in a good spot to watch, this included several miles putting the 4 wheel drive through its paces on dirt roads.

As the storm moved East it started to drop a lot of large hail which can be game over if it takes out a windscreen so we cautiously tried to skirt the southern edge of our now severe warned storm.

This was the storm as seen via Doppler as we drove along its southern edge getting hit by hail

As we did some pretty large hailstones started falling on top and around us!

The white bits are hail stones with a diameter around the size of a quarter. None of us fancied the head injury associated with going to collect some!

This storm continued to move East and dropped a lot of hail, some of which took us by surprise on the drive north after we decided to call it a day!

On the way back to Amarillo we came across another very photogenic supercell north of Tahoka.

Low level winds were picking up a lot of dust

After a couple of stops to enjoy the view we decided to head back to Amarillo in order to have a good set up for tomorrow’s storms.

3 days into the trip we have had 3 very different chases.

Saturday was very pretty, Sunday was very exciting and Monday was an off-road adventure!

Tomorrow is looking like we’ll be leaving Texas but the question is Kansas or Oklahoma.