Report & Pictures - Friday 13th April 2012 (oklahoma)

[Paul Sherman]

An absolutely fantastic days chasing today in SW Oklahoma. We left Hays (Kansas) at 10am and headed South to Clinton, after a quick pit stop early initiation got 2 Supercells going heading into the Oklahoma Metroplex. Our Target Storms were firing further west along the dryline East of Altus. We got onto our First Supercell East of Hobart and followed this eastwards, several areas of rotation were noted but storm interference with other cells made this ultimately go Multi Cell, our attention was then drawn west again to another 3 Supercells again South West of Hobart. We intercepted the first West of Roosevelt, very nice Structure greeted us but this Storm as it moved over the Wichita Mountains got cut off by a stronger storm near Blair, we then headed towards this third Supercell and headed South towards Freedom where we core punched the Eastern Side of the Storm, this was quite a hairy situation with wrapping rain bands crossing the road in front of us, we came through to the rain free base East of Altus and then followed this Storm which was now right moving eastwards along Highway 62. By now the Low Level Jet was cranking up with screaming South Easterly winds, our storm now went Tornado warned and further to the east we intercepted a Cone Tornado just east of Cooperton (Oklahoma) We followed this storm through the early evening and shot some Lightning before calling it a day in readiness for today's Historic High Risk Outbreak.

Hope you like the Pictures.

Paul S

- Supercell East of Roosevelt (Oklahoma)

- Supercell Near Freedom (Oklahoma)

- Supercell South of Snyder (Oklahoma)

- Supercell South of Cooperton (Oklahoma)

- Cg Lightning East of Chickasha (Oklahoma)

- Cone Tornado East of Cooperton (Oklahoma)

[Nick F]

Great photos, yes it seemed side steeping west and SW was the best option as new supercells formed -where you had the benefit of them being discrete, rather than the multicellular grunge fest developing further east over the 'burbs of OK City. Pity it was getting dark when the cone tornado was in view, great to see it nonetheless.

Can't wait to be out there in six weeks' time!

[lorenzo]

Looking at the USA Metos on Twitter and that NOAA High Risk map looks like the next 24 hours could be spectacular.

[duckeyh]

Really good feed last night and thoroughly enjoyed it....not jealous in way (well alot actually!)

[Paul]

Footage of the tornado in Norman:

[user700]

Great photos Paul and live stream.

Hope everyone’s ok in Norman.