This supercell’s first tornado was a short-lived, narrower, dusty tube, whose parent mesocyclone soon occluded and weakened. The next formed and tightened up nicely, with a small but well-developed wall cloud a few miles prior to the mesocyclone’s crossing the only north-south road for about 30 miles. However, the wall cloud didn’t grow and start spinning fast until moving off into the broad road void. Only then, this even dustier tornado—colored by lofting countless tons of dirt derived from underlying Permian redbeds—gradually organized as it receded quickly eastward and away from us. In the next couple minutes, a combination of wrapping hook rain, tornadic and rear-flank-downdraft dust, and distance would obscure the action.
11 ESE Dumont TX (4 May 22) Looking ENE
33.7695, -100.3404