FRI 06 JUN
Difficult decision today - two target areas, very similar to the previous day. We could stay down near Lubbock (TX) and aim for a preliminary target of Levelland, about an hour from our hotel in Plainview (TX), or drive 3 hours north into SE Colorado with an initial target of Campo (CO).
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| SPC forecast issued 16:30Z 06 June 2025 |
Given late initiation in both targets we sat in Plainview for a while to contemplate, taking into consideration the flooding of last night and the impacts that may have on the dirt roads. There was also an element of "we played down here yesterday, might be nice to try somewhere else" too. In the end, we made a last-minute decision to try Colorado instead so headed north and arrived at Campo with a nice supercell already underway to the west near Kim (CO).
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| View to the NW just south of Campo (CO) |
Due to limited road options, we waited a fair while for the storm to get closer, and so began several hours of tracking this discrete supercell progressively southeastwards across the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. There were a few brief tornadoes with this storm, but we struggled to see them due to a combination of being on the move at the time of occurrence and/or being obscured by rain in this high precipitation storm.
We heard the tornado sirens as we drove through the towns of Texhoma, Gruver (TX) and Spearman (TX) in advance of the storm, and once south of Spearman ran out of road options so had to let the storm pass to our north and clear away to the southeast. We sat and watched the constant lightning for a bit, then headed to a hotel in Guymon (OK) for the night - only to arrive as another tornado-warned storm arrived! In the end this produced a bit of wind and hail, but nothing severe for the town.
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