West Texas Bust

Storm Chase Details

Chase Date: May 5, 2015
Chase Partners:
Alec Scholten

Chasers Encountered:
Kholby Martin

Miles Logged: 729
States Chased: OK, TX
Severe Risks: SPC Outlooks

Chase Recap:

Kept trying to decide if we wanted to chase or not, and waited for Bart Comstock in Norman for lunch before pulling the trigger and trying to chase this day. Got down to about Hollis before a beautiful tornado happened down by Big Spring – 2 hours south of us.

We blasted down to get on that storm when it was gusting out, but the storm south of it still had a tornado warning so we headed to that.

It was crap, so we followed it for awhile before giving up.

We missed awesome tornadoes near Lubbock.

Stupid chase day, long drive home.

Ben Holcomb is a Storm Chaser and IT Professional (in that order) that lives in Norman, Oklahoma. Ben works for an IT managed service provider as a Linux Engineer. He has observed over 200 tornadoes since 2007 and has appeared on most national and some international television news networks. Ben loves to travel and has been to all 50 states as well as 19 countries.