May 13, 2005 Texas Supercell

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After finishing my Differential Equations final, I hurried down to Texas barely in time to find this storm. I was a bit too late to see the tornado my friend Robert saw... see it here.
I watched the scud to the west from where people on the radio were talking about something and the big rotating cloud just to my west. Unusual storm in that I could see through much of it, could see a rotating wall cloud, but had no visibility of the tornado that people to the west of the cloud 7 miles away from me could see.


The storm become very outflow dominated as it moved south. I did see the longest lived and photogenic gustnado I've ever seen:


Very nice storm, despite the fact that I was a bit late for the tornado due to a final.