22 May 2025: Gorgeous spinning supercell in Texas

 
Are there good-luck foods when we chase storms? Alethea and I like to toast with the cheese rounds I make and bring from home. But I also think Texas-shaped waffles are fun, at the very least, and I love a good Allsup’s burrito to fuel the chase. We had both of these on May 22, 2025. And a very lucky storm.

With our chaser friends — Jason Persoff, Scott McPartland, Dave Lewison and George Kourounis — we headed to an area west of Dallas, Texas, and caught up to an unassuming storm that soon began to spin. It was a bit frothy-looking at first, but soon it developed a mini mothership appearance, and the striations and stacked plates became smoother and more pronounced as the day wore on.

We got fantastic pictures with the sun shooting out rays behind the storm when we stopped on the northeast side of Possum Kingdom Lake. Then we had to circumnavigate the LP, or low-precipitation, supercell, catching up to it at Palo Pinto.

This amazing spinning supercell and a profusion of colorful wildflowers made for a visual feast and one of the most beautiful chases of our trip.

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