Lubbock, TX Tornado And Bad Drivers Hazards – 5/23/2019

Another Severe Weather Outbreak:

First clip shows the dangers of storm chasing is not always the weather but the other drivers that are not paying attention to the road and the other vehicles on the road. Our crew was nearly hit by a driver that pulled off to the side of the road and decided to make U-Turn in the middle of the highway in a hail storm with oncoming traffic right behind them.

Footage of a tornado south of Lubbock, TX and a landspout tornado near Happy, TX. Large supercell thunderstorm with large hail, tornado, wall clouds, gustnadoes, and lightning over Lubbock TX

All footage shot during evening daylight in/near Lubbock, TX on May 23, 2019 by Meteorologists Juston Drake and Simon Brewer
Shot Description

Clip 1 POV Dash Camera shot while driving in hail to show the real dangers of storm chasing as the pickup truck in front of us pulls off the side of the road but then decides to pull an Illegal U-Turn without warning in front of us and we nearly broadside the truck and had to go into the ditch to avoid the idiot.

Clips 2-4 Various shots of a landspout tornado near Happy, TX

Clips 5-10 Various shots of a funnel cloud and tornado south of Lubbock, TX

Clips 11 – 12 Large golf ball sized hail falling on road and cars in Lubbock TX

Clip 13 Large supercell and lightning bolt near Lubbock TX

Clip 14 & 15 Large rotating wall cloud over Lubbock TX

Clip 16 & 17 Gustnadoes near Lubbock TX

17-20. lightning near Lubbock TX from supercell thunderstorms

SID: Simon Brewer Juston Drake

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