Randy Jennings
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A very special chase trip on a Saturday. My normal chase partner couldn't go, so I took my 16 year old son - who wants to be a meteorologist - on his first long distance chase and he got to see his first tornado. The first sign that something was up was this wall cloud taken 5 miles north of Swenson TX looking NW at about 5:45 pm CDT.
We went NW toward the storm and meet up with it 1.5 miles NE of Jayton TX in a cemetery. At this point it was all outflow winds.
We took US 380 back east and I took this pic from a rest stop on US 380 just north of Peacock TX. By this time inflow had really picked up.
We got just east of Aspermont TX and turned around at 6:56 pm CDT to see this to our NW:
Which soon became a rope tornado:
We continued to head SE ahead of this storm into Haskell and Jones Counties TX where it - while no longer tornadic - still was showing great structure.
Stopping to get gas I even caught this pic by chance (wasn't even trying to shot lighting at the time):
573 miles and 10 hrs latter, we returned home. Oldest son couldn't' wait to go on his next chase.
We went NW toward the storm and meet up with it 1.5 miles NE of Jayton TX in a cemetery. At this point it was all outflow winds.
We took US 380 back east and I took this pic from a rest stop on US 380 just north of Peacock TX. By this time inflow had really picked up.
We got just east of Aspermont TX and turned around at 6:56 pm CDT to see this to our NW:
Which soon became a rope tornado:
We continued to head SE ahead of this storm into Haskell and Jones Counties TX where it - while no longer tornadic - still was showing great structure.
Stopping to get gas I even caught this pic by chance (wasn't even trying to shot lighting at the time):
573 miles and 10 hrs latter, we returned home. Oldest son couldn't' wait to go on his next chase.
