May 26, 2025, had Alethea Kontis and I chasing in west Texas, targeting an area south of San Angelo. Only issue was that a rotating storm was ongoing by the time we got there. We buzzed through the precip on the north side and dropped south, getting ahead of it at Menard.
Rotating wall cloud on the south side of Menard, Texas (GIF).
On the south side of town, we stopped to watch a rapidly rotating wall cloud. But as the storm encroached on our position, we took into account the hordes of storm chasers and the hail core (a 5.87-inch hailstone was reported) and decided to back off for safety.
South we went again, but between the hills, the trees and the increasingly messy storm, we didn’t see much more structure. The sky was still beautiful, though, as we reached I-10 and gave up the chase for the day.
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