Large Tornado & Monster Hail- South Plains, TX- May 12th, 2005
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Large Tornado & Monster Hail- South Plains, TX- May 12th, 2005
www.SevereWeatherVideo.com ©Scott McPartland Thanks for watching! And please rate, comment & subscribe if you have enjoyed the video. Exactly one year to the day after we witnessed the amazing Harper County, KS tornado outbreak, South Plains, TX happened. But, unlike a year before, on this day things would not exactly turn out as planned. As with any storm intercept, large hail is always a threat, and at some point every chaser will most likely get caught up in it. On this day, it was our turn, along with many other chasers. The day started out in Garden City, KS where Dave Lewison, Peter Ventre, Mark Robinson, Dave Sills and I had stayed the night before. We geared up and started heading south towards our target area. A lone supercell thunderstorm had gone up in the Texas Panhandle and it was going to be a long haul to make it there in time. Our initial target area had not been that far to the south, but that TX Panhandle storm looked so good on radar, we couldn't pass it up and went for it. To be honest, I didn't think we'd be able to make it to the storm in time, but we did! Mark Robinson and Dave Sills decided to go for a target area in south central Kansas, that decision saved much of the glass on their vehicle, lol. Upon arriving in the town of Turkey, TX we could see our target storm, and quickly gas'd up as we wanted to make sure we had a full tank to start the chase! Most of the next few hours were spent on Route 207 waiting for our target storm to produce a <b>...</b> |
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