2025-04-04 REPORTS: TX/AR/MO

[Ben Holcomb]

Day trip from Norman down to see storms form along the boundary in northeast Texas/Southeast Oklahoma. Ended up on a very HP supercell near Clarksville Texas and managed to witness a hog coming out of the rain and going right by us to the north.

Here's my video of the Clarksville TX Tornado

I've got more information and a full recap at Storm Chase Log: Clarksville Texas Tornado - Ben Holcomb

 

[Randy Jennings]

Inital staging target was Sulfur Springs TX. We bit on a cell and chased it NE, gave up on it and went south (this ended up being the Clarksville tornado). We ended up getting the Lake Gilmer TX tornado.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1908582296133001730

We stopped filming when the RFD hit us and turned around and got stuck behind a school bus dropping off a kid in the pouring rain of the RFD. Our timelapse dash cam video of the tornado and school bus was posted by my chase partner.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1908582296133001730

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We got some good structure near Atlanta TX and ran into Daniel Shaw.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1908303702877741245

Ww crossed into Arkansas and stoped to grab some food at a gas station in Bradley and not long later Jordan Hall and Scott Peake pulled up in different vehicles. We talked for a good while and after the line hit we left and went north towards Hope. We ended up in yet another tornado warning, but if it ever produced we never saw it. It was well after dark. We headed back to DFW.

Our chase parh:

 

[Dan Robinson]

I was originally planning on staying close to home to shoot lightning with the elevated activity through the day. I didn't think the warm front was lifting fast enough to make the bootheel option worth it, and the primary target farther southwest was out of contention for me due to the terrain and the distance required. We ended up socked in with fog and low stratus by midday, quashing any hope for lightning visibility in the STL metro. So I decided to head down toward the bootheel. After I made it out of the fog in Cape Girardeau at 5pm, the front was still way down south of Sikeston and there were no upstream storms that would reach the front before sunset. I was ready to turn around and go back home.

The Poplar Bluff storm was within reach, but already across the boundary and elevated. It was very active with lightning though, so I decided to wait for it southwest of Cape Girardeau near Delta. This ended up with a really nice CG lightning barrage. I captured several keeper stills and 6,002 fps high speed shots.





I was right next to the viral image of a supposed rope tornado captured by a MODOT camera at Highway K and I-55 in Cape Girardeau, but I did not see this feature. I reviewed my dashcam video and did not find anything convincing there either, other than some look-alikes caused by either low clouds and/or distortion from raindrops on the lens. This was an elevated HP storm that was ingesting very cold surface inflow (the line demarcating low clouds and fog was right at Cape Girardeau) that you would not expect to see produce such a high-visibility tornado.

I posted many more shots of this storm on my blog:

Supercell lightning barrage at Delta, Missouri on April 4, 2025