With our friends gone home, Alethea and I began our storm chase May 28, 2025, with a stop at the Cimarron Heritage Center in Boise City, Oklahoma. This place has an interesting historical museum as well as a super-cool life-size metal sculpture of an apatosaurus named Cimmy, designed by artist Joe Barrington. It’s 65 feet long, the same size as a dinosaur whose bones were excavated in Cimarron County in the 1930s.
Video grab of the short-lived tornado near Manter, Kansas.
And then, with storms everywhere, it was time to reroute and try to catch convection in the Texas Panhandle. South we went through the Oklahoma Panhandle and then into Texas. We weren’t on the right side of a great shelf cloud some chasers saw, but we got on a rotating storm with a gorgeous updraft near Darrouzette.
Lightning sparked in the storm near Darrouzette, Texas.
We photographed this storm until until another munched up behind us, and then we abandoned them and headed north, stopping at the Oklahoma border to check out some more great lightning. It was a fun day pursuing a smorgasbord of storms.
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