Not much time for my full report right now. Will review photos and video. I'm annoyed that I was late to my target -which WAS Vernon primarily and Wichita Falls secondarily and a bit across the Red! My planned departure was 10am and I left at 12! Arghh!! So, I drove right there but was late for the first tornado by minutes. Caught the last good wallcloud cycle on that storm. Had trouble getting my streaming video to work at that point so no view for the rest of you..and stupid me I forgot to press Rec on my camcorder cause I was messing with the streaming. So, I didn't manage to record that first wallcloud. I briefly watched it when I didn't have my head down. It was cool looking. Appears I may have captured a tornado WSW of Wichita Falls near or just after sundown. Unable to call it in because I was streaming video at that time using the cell. (Hmm...not sure what to do with that scenario.) The funnel was 3/4 to 2/3 of way to ground on a wet field and I could see brief condensation jumping up from the ground directly underneath - so appears to be tornado. I may have some footage of that on the dashcam. I managed to kill the streaming feed right when it was building. More on that later. Then I narrowly avoided the big hail from the storm to my sw as I escaped. Did get a few hits from +2 inchers though. All in all a great chase even considering my bone head departure time!!

Reviewed dash cam footage and appears I do have a brief tornado wsw of Wichita Falls near sunset. It is over a wet field, the funnel extends near ground with other funnels rotating nearby, and then it pulls up some condensation from the ground which stays around for awhile. It's a shame I accidentally turned off the dashcam right before this happened. That killed the live streaming video feed. I eventually got it back up, but by then the tornado was over. I would have had the 2nd live streaming tornado.

 

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