My sister, Carrie, and I
head out of Houston for Amarillo. We hope to hit Amarillo 12 hours later
for maybe a few storms that night.
Lightning
hits road in front of us.
8:00am
Somewhere South of Corsicana, Tx
Storm in progress. We
encounter heavy rains and awesome lightning strikes. As we are enjoying
the show marble sized hail begins to hit us. We are in the hailstorm for
about 5 minutes traveling at approximately 40 mph. We exit the
Lightning
hits again!
storm and
continue our track North. Images were taken while it was raining.
4:30pm
Arrive to Amarillo, Tx
We are exhausted! We stay
at Comfort Inn and decide to take a nap after all that driving.
Lightning
strikes the roadside near us!
Lubbock
storm from afar.
5:30pm
Wake up check radar very
briefly still exhausted and hungry. Head for Applebee's for some food.
Just as we arrive to the restaurant, Lubbock is under a severe
thunderstorm warning. We watch the radar
at the restaurant. A cell pops
into the Texas panhandle motion Southeast. Thunderstorm watch out for
Amarillo. We leave the restaurant go to the hotel grab my cameras and
see the Lubbock storm in the very far distance. We check the
radar quickly and head for Vega.
Rotation
with false sunset caused by the storm.
Lightning
curses through rotation. Capture from Video.
We
are hoping for some great cloud shots maybe some lightning. Little
did
we know we were in for a show.
Approaching
Vega we see this awesome storm.
"Look
at that!" Carrie yells all of a sudden. I look over to the
West and see dust being thrown in to the air toward the North. We
watch it for a bit and she says that she sees it rotating. We pull over
onto a country road to watch it a bit. There is the plume of dust being
kicked up and its rotating. I look for cloud extensions and I don't see
any. This awesome bolt strikes through the dust and a
Odd
horizontal lines
Horizontal
line continues
shadowy monster
appears. We take some snapshots and continue off watching it.
