Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Yet another successful storm chase in Texas this Spring! 5/17/2021. Tornado near Forsan TX. More advice on how to storm chase. Stay with your storm to the bitter end and don't panic!

When storm chasing there are often days where it's just better to be lucky than good. Deep in west Texas, north of Midland, I'd wait for a storm to form in my target area and potentially produce a tornado later in the day.


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Instead, my target storm would never materialize. So I headed to Midland to check out a complete mess that had formed instead. I traveled for hours from storm, to storm, to storm, to storm. All of them messy, high based, and unlikely to produce a tornado.

By 5 pm I was looking for the location of the nearest Applebees.

Alright fine I'll give it one more shot, I went south back onto the original storm that sort of seemed to be getting its act together. It was tough to tell, the local midland Odessa radar was offline. Making it difficult to decide what to target. And of course, visually they all looked like total garbage.

Some chasers saw a brief spin up under a rotating wall cloud. Officially a tornado but basically nothing to write home about. And then I got a phone call from John. The San Angelo radar was picking up a new mesocyclone that was almost certainly going to produce a tornado just to my east. Unfortunately, it's over a giant road hole with few options to translate out in front of it.


After the #tornado lifted I repositioned further south, really the only direction I could go. A new tornado formed but quickly wrapped itself in rain.



To cap it all off, this storm had an imperial nebraska 2019 appearance to it, but with a tornado. Can't ask for more.


One of the tornadoes would cause damage to a gas electrical plant. Damage surveys are still ongoing as I post this video.

Stay with your storm. Don't panic if things don't look perfect at first.

That evening I'd capture dozens of high intensity jellyfish sprites. But I'll leave the rest of those to some future videos. Thanks for watching. Check out my other chase videos, and subscribe for more content like this! Until the next one, I'll see out there.

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Filmed on:
Sony A7SIII with Tamron 28-200mm
DJI Mini 2 (Drone)
Go Pro Hero 7
Canon 6D Mark II with Sigma 20mm F1.4 ART

00:00 Better Lucky than Good
01:40 Tornado 1
03:37 Forsan Tornado Timelapses
04:40 Tornado 2
05:05 Structure!
05:45 Sprites! (TLEs)