24 April 2025 — Matador, Texas — Tornadoes — Jeremy Perez

Published on April 24, 2025

Crop duster diversion south of Guyman, Oklahoma — 1952Z.

Storm regrouping west of Flomont, Texas, after its first tornado, which I missed — 2335Z.

New cut of RFD slicing in from atop the Cap Rock, southeast of South Plains — 2347-2351Z.

Quick spinup as RFD tightens on the rim of the Cap Rock — 2356Z.

Catching back up to a rapidly rotating wall cloud at the intersection of CR178 & 271 — 0014Z.

Tornado beginning to materialize and clearly condensing WNW of Matador — 0015Z.

Dirt eating cone behind a shaggy wall cloud — 0017Z.

Turbulence and subvortices near the ground — 0017Z.

Looking northeast at the mostly obscured cone from Hwy 62 west of Matador — 0029Z.

Looking northwest at occluded tornado as it approaches Hwy 62 — 0037Z.

Watching the storm move off as it crosses FM 684 west of Roaring Springs — 0058-0059Z.

After dark structure and lightning show from Hwy 380 between Post & Clairemont — 0229-0246Z.

Jeremy Perez

I'm an art director living in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. I've been photographing monsoon storms and lightning since the eighties. I started chasing severe weather on the Great Plains in 2010. I usually chase solo or with my now adult children. When chasing the Plains, targeting to document a tornado is usually the goal. I'm relieved to say that as hard as that goal is to hit, I'm also captivated by the other sights along the way—the vast horizons, small towns, lightning, storm structure and whatever else gets rolled into that hard-to-reach goal. To date, I've documented 56 tornadoes on 32 storms. Some of them were hazy, mushy views—but a few spectacles stand out and keep me coming back for more: Bowdle, Rozel, Dodge City, Chapman, Ft. Stockton x 2 & Meteor Crater. After plains season each year, the southwest monsoon will be waiting to get started and hopefully opportunities for lightning, haboobs and always hope for a rare landspout.

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