Tsk, tsk, tsk. That would be today in a nutshell. On this particular chase, I did something I rarely do. I brought a friend with me, but that was never the problem. Let’s talk about it. When I started my day, I was looking for explosive development to take place around the Stephenville, Texas area. Arguably, the chance for one big tornado was very high. However, as we were going through town, I thought, hmmm, let’s push onto Granbury. I could see a cap (convective inhibition, officially speaking) starting to form over the whole target area. As we were arriving at Lake Granbury, I was having to get into deep thought mode. It didn’t take long and I was like, “welp, I guess we’re going to make a giant U-turn.” Yes, back to Stephenville we go. I recall seeing a developing cell west of the city and thought, that might be my storm of the day. Well, it kind of was. This little cell was becoming a supercell and I was getting excited. In fact, at one point, it was confirmed to have baseball size hail so when we parked at Elk Ridge Baptist Church, it was the perfect position for intercept. Not to mention, this beast was attempting to develop a hook. Now we go from potentially losing a windshield to getting a decent view of a tornado, should there be one. Except there was one thing missing: the tornado. Certainly, we did get hit with hail but it was not at all impressive. In fact, it was pretty disappointing. I mean, I guess it was cool that we were watching it smack down on the parking lot surface but at half the size with a quarter of the anticipated excitement. Once it had passed, it was time to intercept another storm, which would take us to Clifton. Along the way, we would come to see probably the most amount of hail fog I’ve ever seen anywhere. As many have described it before, it literally looked like a light fog where snow would be built up on both sides of the road but instead of snow, it was hail. Basically, the storm we intercepted was a smaller experience of the much bigger picture. I don’t recall seeing any large hail but I was driving so I couldn’t exactly do a full observation. It was still an amazing sight though. Finally, we arrived in Clifton and there was another massive hail storm coming our way. The hue of the green was so intense I almost couldn’t believe my eyes. I really wish I could have shown that in the episode but it’s so hard to really color grade green colors when the temperature of my cameras are limited to the range of daylight and tungsten. If only I could have shown it for what it was. This hail event was expected to be so big that they even sounded the tornado sirens due to the extremity of what was coming. Well, nothing, again, would really come of it. At this point, it was time to find one last storm but we didn’t go all that far. Due to the time of the day, I was really just wanting to try getting lightning photos, at the very least. We wound up sitting at a school parking lot and as you can see in the thumbnail of the episode, there was a pretty rainbow. I really was hoping to get a big lightning bolt within that but what little lightning I saw was never within my frame. While it was a successful chase, arguably, it was also a disappointment. My friend had never been storm chasing before so I wanted to give her a much better experience than what we had. Still, she said she had a good time so that was nice. It wouldn’t be until the next chase that some visual redemption would come into the equation. You know where to find that experience so I’ll meet you over there.