1 May 2022 – Texas Panhandle Supercells

The day kind of turned into a long one getting us nearly to Dalhart, TX as we roamed from storm to storm looking for something interesting.  We saw several that exhibited supercell structure, a few gustnadoes, some lightning – but mostly a lot of dirt.  These were windy storms over drought areas and there was a tremendous amount of blowing dirt.  At times visibility got down to less than 100 yards.

Lightning near a broad mesocyclone near Hartley:

One of the dense streams of blowing dirt that we had just driven through west of Dumas: