Monday 23rd May 2022 - Tx Panhandle (Slight Risk)

We started today in probably the best Hotel of the Trip in Mineral Wells and after looking at models my chase target was west of Lubbock and the town of Morton which as you will later read was not too shabby. After a lunch at Jasons Deli in Lubbock we topped off the cars and headed for Morton to watch the Dryline bubble away just over the border in New Mexico. Todays Set Up was a Surface low on the NM/TX Border and a lifting north warm front transporting in low 60's just in time dewpoints. One good thing was the morning cloudiness which kept the temperature low at 61f. When Storms fired at 4pm the temperature at Max Heating was only 79f and this had a lot of bearing on what was to come over the next 4 hours, and also a massive thing that made this day come together was a North westward moving Outflow Boundary from early day storms down near Interstate 20 south of Lubbock.We kept just east of 3 Dryline Storms which were fighting each other for a good 90 minutes, the Storm near Clovis was tempting especially as it stalled on what we now know was the Outflow Boundary. I stopped the car at Sudan and said to the guys we are not moving until I see another 2 radar scans as something was happening here with storm scale movements and what a decision that was to be in the end. Once I saw the Southern Storm stall on the Outflow Boundary we gunned it straight south to get onto the right side of the storm as it was now only a matter of time before this Supercell would latch and start dropping Tornadoes. We had to navigate almost apocolyptic dust storms on the way down. And as soon as we were level with the Storm it latched the boundary and dropped its first tornado.The annoying thing for me was Morton was my target and also we need to be west or South West of these Cyclic Supercells in the drought hit areas much like the 4th May event, so I was pretty pissed with myself for being SE and not having the totally clear view. This was our view below though with 60mph screaming inflow winds making it hard to stand up at times.The Structure was off the scale at times and we now had a 1 Mile Wide EF2 Wedge Tornado just 2 miles in front of us moving at us.But still not as good as the view from the un dusty side from Tori Jane belowWe then moved West to be just behind the Storm and took some large hail sitting in the vault area, the Supercell was now going through some strange processes as it tried to keep on the Outflow Boundary with the Occlusion now travelling SW back towards Morton. This part of the chase now became a massive thank you to Dave Ewoldt who was nowcasting for me and got us the next 3 Tornadoes from this Cyclic beast. The first he actually predicted in a field 4 miles ESE of Morton as the Tornadic part of the storm started moving back to the SE. This was a lovely white cone that dropped in the field with Power Flashes just to our North.We continued SE towards Whiteface and witnessed another Tornado and started to see the stunning structure of this Supercell.Amazing Structure NowWe finished the day at Lubbock with 4 Tornadoes in the bag and celebrated into the night, What a Day and just goes to show if all the ingredients come together it can change in an instant.