As messy and beset with precip and outflow as this complex supercell was, with this tremendous surge happening just to the south of one of a few embedded mesocyclones along US 277, I wouldn’t have imagined that a couple of fortunate friends and scientific colleagues were seeing a legitimate tornado on this other side, and especially, able to see it in the darkness and rain. They somehow found an inflow notch conveniently along a stretch of the highway past which we drove less than 15 minutes earlier, and managed to get out of the predicament ahead of the tornado, without taking hail nor wind damage to their vehicle. Here, a combination of outflow-advected field dust, darkness and wrapping precip in the outflow prevented seeing the circulation, which would have been just to the right of middle rear.
2 SW Stamford TX (25 May 25) Looking N
32.9232, -99.8388