Amateur photographer, and storm chaser, Laura Rowe captured a spellbinding shot of a tornado touching down in Texas which went viral. Rowe, a college basketball player, was out on a Sunday drive with her boyfriend in eastern Texas when they spotted a spectacular storm cloud. “Small town, nothing else to do,” the photographer recounted on SmugMug of their encounter with the storm. “We were over in Muleshoe checking out the salt lakes in the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refugee when we saw a small tornado touchdown close to earth, Texas.” After seeing funnel cloud almost touch down, they realized what a treat was up for grabs, courtesy of Mother Nature, and decided to chase it to see what photography it would yield. “We followed it for about three hours down county dirt roads until we set up in the spot where I took this shot,” she wrote. When they realized they’d gotten …