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I've been on the road to see storms in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and I got my first Illinois tornadoes. Here are some shots from May 5th in the Texas Panhandle. I was in good position on this storm near Seminole, Texas then a bad road decision cost me the tornadoes. This is another reminder that a storm chase gone bad can usually be traced back to one decision that impacted the rest of the day. At the time these decisions individually don't see wrong until it's too late and I realize there is little I can do to put the day back on track. In this situation I got behind the storm and chose not to drive back northeast into Patricia, but to take a short cut south on a dirt road to get in front of the storm. It had worked the day before on a supercell near Castell, TX but not this time. The road choice turned sour leading me though fields, driveways, around houses and through back yards, amazing that I didn't get stuck. One thing is for certain, all thin brown linies on the DeLorme mapping program are not the same. Remain hard surface and work out great, others will send you into a field to meet the cows. Oh well, all is not lost, I got these shots at sunset of the boiling supercell. They may be of some value to those under the supercell at the the time photographing torndoes.
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Another shot of the spectacular Patricia storm at late sunset.
The bright sunlight is still hitting the top of the storm at 60,000 feet while
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