George has to climb everything. As we waited for initiation, he mounted the mule in Muleshoe, TX. Soon cells fired to our north. We went up to just east of Hereford. The form had a very low wall cloud. We saw a road option just east of us that looked good as the storm was moving to the SSE. The road was paved to start off with, then it turned to dirt. It was too late to turn back now. We continued on this road until we got two of our three vehicles stuck up to the axles in mud. The third vehicle turned around to go back and hopefully come up the road from the south to help pull us out. A stray baseball size hail stone took out his windshield in the process. While we were stuck, the storm passed just to our east. I am sure there was a tornado wrapped up in the rain. The barrel updraft was rotating rapidly and was almost on the ground. One funnel did form just south of us and extended half way down, but never touched down. With the heavy rainfall, the road turned into a river. After three hours, we finally got out of the mud and resumed the chase. We made it down to Lubbock just in time to see a great sunset.
