Mike Thiess and I went out to the Texas Panhandle. We watched the first cell from near Wildorado, TX. It had a nice appearance to it, but was moving north and our road options made it impossible to keep up with. A second cell developed to our SW and road options were good. We dropped south to get a view of it. It had nice structure, but something was missing as it didn't get too well organized. We kept up to it back up to Wildorado. Another cell was more isolated and to our south. We dropped down to get in position for it near Tulia. It beat up to the town. We were just a few miles north of Tulia when we heard over the ham radio that Tulia was being hit had by a tornado. We desperately wanted to see it and get to our next east road option that we punched through the core with some baseball size hail. The windshield didn't make it intact. Just as we emerged out of the core, we saw the wall cloud exiting the town. It still had a view weak vortices spinning out of it at the time. As we tried to get to our east road, we ran into power lines that were down. We had to backtrack through town and found where the tornado had done quite a bit of damage, making it impassible.
