Around and around and around.....looking directly up into a developing tornado in NE Colorado yesterday.
Day 4 of Tour 1 in West Texas!
aaaaand away we goooooooo.....good luck everyone, stay safe and have fun 🥳
Our adventures from the first couple of chase days!
Time to dig in to the stash of photos and get some time lapse editing done! @arronhiscox @stushortphotography @davidjohnnyvicary
Hail near San Angelo, TX
Chase Day 5:
Start: Lubbock, TX
End: San Angelo, TX
413 miles
After an eventful and adrenaline filled chase the day before, we made our way down towards the San Angelo area of Texas for more of the same.
We waited it out near Sterling City, consuming the best flavoured Pringles known, Parmesan & Roasted Garlic. We also made friends with a Trapdoor 🕷️🫣 something we'll not to do again 😂
A supercell exploded to our South, so we made our way off-road, until the road turned in to someone's private ranch 🤔🙈 eventually we found ourselves underneath this beautiful classic supercell with some huge hail falling all around. ABI (the car) took a few dents, but she's coping well with £'ing 🤫 Video below!
We got ahead of the now evolving bow echo as it went through San Angelo. The big green munching machine was on our tail. We let that pass over us for fun and headed back towards San Angelo for round two. We parked up ready, and were joined by the 4 tour vans of SLT... Then, one of our lot stole one of their lots ice cream 😱😂🫣 Before the lightning put on a show with plenty of upward zings!
Back to San Angelo for food at 🗻😏🗻
A couple of travel days now as we head north 🚙
Interstate Insanity? 🤔
Chase Day 2:
Start: Ardmore, OK
End: Kilgore, TX
Started the day out in Ardmore and finished fitting out the car with tech. We eventually made our way to Paris, Texas for lunch at Braums. 5 junior burgers for $5.95 you say 🤔🙋🏼♂️
It was hot and humid, ice cream was called for whilst we waited for the cold front to come through and help them storms get going. The money saved on lunch went on a very expensive Oreo treat 🤫
Storms eventually got going near Tyler, TX and we followed them East through the evening. Visibility wasn't great but a few zingers were seen and lots of rumbles heard.
We booked a hotel in Kilgore and had an intense drive through a storm on the interstate. Unfortunately, this storm took out the power in the town and they didn't have our reservation 🫣 we'll just say the next hour and a half was interesting trying to find somewhere to stay well after midnight...... All part of the fun though! 😂
Video clip 👇
