Went out with David Douglas a chase friend from Austin. We got a late start cause David had to wait
to get off of work. Went north quickly through Abilene, Aspermont, to north of Spur and caught the
incredible ongoing night supercell in Dickens county. This storm had oodles of violent forked
lighting. We got out in front of the area of rotation for awhile as large wallclouds approached.
Brilliant lightning was hitting nearby so we backed off closer to the town of Spur where we stayed
for a couple of hours monitoring the storm and taking pictures. I had a little trouble getting my
camera set up right for nightime shooting plus I was afraid I was about to get struck - so a bit
distracted. David shot some phenomenal storm / lightning pictures. One looks like a shot from the
movie Independence Day where the mothership is destroying the building in downtown Washington DC.
May post it in a bit.

After a while the town of Spur set off their tornado sirens and we were seeing Threatnet shear
markers of 138mph as very dark and wide wallclouds / funnels approached. Some of these appeared very
close to the ground in the distance and one of them may have been the logged storm north of Dickens.
Eventually this part of the storm weakened and moved to the east. After awhile as the storm was
moving away I suddenly noticed rotation and a debris swirl to our NNE under the edge of the base. We
were amazed to see a landspout with mostly a clear funnel attached to cloud base above with small
condensation fingers! I turned on the dashcam, and we both shot pictures with our digital cameras.
Mine didn't turn out so great. You can tell a little from Davids.

For a last minute late night catch it was an excellent chase!
 

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