Left: A shot of the first tornado of the day looking north on hwy 1835 northwest of Old Glory, Tx. This tornado came down immediately after we had finished driving out from under the base attempting to get in front.

 

 

The previous three shots show the view up hwy 380 between Old Glory and Rule, Tx. There are actually two wallclouds / funnels here.  The one pictured is closer to Rule - the other (less developed) is due left of the vehicle. These 3 camcorder shots have a window reflection (dark line) going across. Regardless, it is easy to tell this funnel may be actually on the ground.  It is very near.  However I was unable to determine that for sure.

 

 

(Above two images) This image of the large funnel / wallcloud west of Rule is a few miles closer to Rule than the three images above.

The funnel / Wallcloud zoomed in is ~ 5 miles west of Rule.  It has lifted some from where it was previously. Right after this the feature became wrapped up in rain and became obscured.

Tornado two. Three images of a weak tornado north of Sagerton and perhaps closer to Rule. Note the swirled shape of the funnel hanging down and the red dust in the field underneath. (Taken from hwy 283 east of Sagerton looking north).

 

 

Tornado 3. The seven shots above and left are of a weak multi-vortex tornado just north of the town of Sagerton, Tx (Shot taken from hwy 283 / 6 east of Sagerton looking NW - just a bit north of town).

 

 

Tornado 4. Above two shots of very weak multi-vortex tornado looking SE off Ranch 618 just west of Lake Stamford. This one may have been sub F0 winds.

 

Tornado 5. The final tornado of the day (left).  I barely caught this white rope tornado (look closely under the larger cloud) before it disappeared completely. Just minutes before this was a large cone tornado. Our diversion road to get back into position cost pictures of that large tornado.(Shot taken off Rockdale / Loop road looking west or north).

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 3rd Stonewall / Haskell County Surprise

Tornado Extreme Storm Chase

 

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