Monthly Archives: May 2018

2 May 2018 / Oklahoma Supercells

While we didn’t feel as good about tornado potential as the day before, it still looked like tornadoes would be possible – this time in Oklahoma.  Storms started forming near the Texas/Oklahoma border not long after we left Okarche, and we drove straight to our first severe storm northwest of Elk City.  What we found was completely uninteresting.  It was hazy, and the updraft was high based and lacked any pleasing structure.  It was a short look and we started southeast toward the next storm of interest.  A tornado warning had been issued for a storm near Lone Wolf.  We experienced some heavy rain and hail while driving south from Sentinel to Hobart.  As soon as we got to the northwest side of Hobart, we popped into rain free conditions and found the updraft region just southwest of us.

 

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We made one more stab at a storm south of Snyder which we followed to northwest of Lawton.  This storm had size issues for most of its life and we seldom saw anything of interest with it.

Our drive home became tough in Grady County where we came across intense rain, hail and even accidentally came very close to a small tornado near Pocasset.  All of this was at night of course, and we didn’t see anything reportable.

1 May 2018 / Kansas Supercells

Our target this afternoon was north central Kansas.  I wish we would have stuck to that; we might have been treated to a couple of tornadoes.  We first drove northwest making it to Woodward where we went north to Coldwater.  By 3 pm, scattered storms had began developing from just north of Dodge City, north northeastward to near the Nebraska border.  Other storms were forming north of Salina.  By 3:30 pm, several of the northern storms had become severe, and we were continuing to move north with our original target in mind.  By 4 pm, a storm had started taking shape to our west over northeast Hodgeman County.  It didn’t take long for this storm to become a healthy supercell, and a Tornado Warning was issued for it as it clipped the northwest corner of Pawnee County and was moving through Rush County.  We had this view of the storm to our west at 4:23 pm:

Taken from just south of Albert, KS.

Taken from just south of Albert, KS.

Slow rotation was evident, but rising motion wasn’t that impressive, and the storm just didn’t look capable of producing a tornado at the time.  We drove west from Albert and north into Bison where we were clipped by the forward flank of the storm and received hail we measured at 1.78″.

We stopped at 5:32 pm and had this view to the northwest from near Olmitz, KS:

The storm structure had steadily improved, but the updraft region looked quite wet.  The idea of letting this storm go and making a move to developing storms to our south was already creeping into our minds.

The updraft region came closest to us while we were near Susank.  Here, the overall structure was still quite impressive, but there still lacked much in the way of any identifiable motion.  The storm seemed to be missing something:

 

Not putting two and two together, what it was missing was waiting for it another hour or so down the road to the northeast.  Conditions favorable for tornado production near an east/west boundary that was our original target.  Sadly, we let this storm go and started south.

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Interesting to look at for a bit, but it was clear this storm was too small to get anything done.  It didn’t take long for us to start southwest.  The next storm had just produced a weak tornado in Oklahoma and had crossed into Kansas, to the south of Coldwater.  While driving away, we stopped once more to look at our LP storm from northeast of Pratt, KS at 7:08 pm:

We ended up driving a few miles southwest of Medicine Lodge, KS and arriving at our newest target storm just as it rapidly fell apart.  It was approaching sunset and we took the time to watch that, and grab a few pics before returning home: