Day 1: Irving, TX to Midland, TX.

Day 1 of the tour started in Irving, TX. Moods were high as we had an overnight 'taster' storm right over the hotel. There was a marginal risk from the SPC in SW Texas, so we headed down towards the New Mexico border area. At around 5 p.m., some weak storms formed in the area of SE Colorado down to SW Texas. We managed to get on a storm near Pecos, TX, but it soon died. The atmosphere just wasn't playing ball. First shot is somewhere in Texas:

We pulled over in a none-too-pleasant layby just outside Pecos to see what the storms were doing. We got a shower of rain and some lightning, but it all died out soon after:

The road to Kermit..... We headed to Midland, TX to position for tomorrow's risk slightly further north: