I was covered in mud and tired from trying furiously to dig my vehicle from a muddy-ditch predicament, so when I interrupted that arduous chore to shoot a few photos of this passing small supercell and its tornado, my heart wasn’t in it. Still, I’m glad to have bothered, because after the fact, this really was a remarkable circumstance, with a nicely structured storm. It’s also a story ultimately harmless in nature, since the Hart tornado (here barely seen as a weakening vertical dust tube under the middle of the base) got no closer. I never had been stuck like that during an active storm intercept in over 35 years of chasing, and hope that’s the last time. The digging didn’t help directly, since the slope was still too steep for the traction to drive out. However, when a wonderful local electric-utility crewman stopped to help an hour and a half later (after the called tow truck was supposed to have showed up), the smoothed road edge kept me from high-centering on the way out, and thus much more strongly resisting the pull, while his truck nonetheless fishtailed and skidded in place. He barely got me out, so all that digging worked, and was worth it.
8 ESE Nazareth TX (13 Mar 21) Looking WSW
34.5284, -101.9553