Tornado Alley 2015 - First Chase Day, near Fort Stockton, TX.

I created this blog with the intention of updating it every day during my chase trip. I forgot how exhausting it is to be on the road all the time. By the time I got to my room, all I had energy for was backing up my photos and video, maybe a quick Facebook update and then getting ready for bed. Right now I'm just going to go through and update each day. I'll copy/paste from Facebook updates as well.

You know it was a good chase day when your hair is a mess, your makeup is smeared and your fingernails are filthy. Today we encountered a beautiful slow moving super cell that became tornado warned a few times. Got hit with a dust storm and then drove through so much hail that it looked like it had just snowed. Got to experience hail fog for the first time. Then we drove through freshly flash flooded Fort Stockton. Also, both the very last place we stopped before the chase and the first place we stopped after the chase didn't have working toilets, so a few of us girls bonded by peeing behind some bushes near a gas station.. And then behind the Burger King dumpster before eating dinner there.

Keeping it classy in Fort Stockton

Supercell near Fort Stockton

This is the only time-lapse I made on the entire trip. I move the camera a bit, but I still think it turned out okay. 

This is the hail and flash flooding we saw in Fort Stockton afterwards.