Kind of a ho-hum chase with regard to storm quality, but I did come across some interesting things.
First, I measured hail to 1.58″ in Amorita in Alfalfa County. This was just about the only hail of the day reported in the state. These storms moved quickly into Kansas and I stopped short of the border. For the first time in my chase career, the year will end with me never crossing north of the Oklahoma/Kansas line. My only venture outside of the state was into the Texas Panhandle and South Plains.
Storms did produce a considerable amount of lightning outside areas of heavy precipitation . The image above is of a fire in uncut wheat about a mile east of Burlington. Farmers, firefighters, and some green grass near structures did an excellent job in keeping this from being worse than it was.
Most of the storms had little in the way of photogenic qualities:
Near sunset, a soft crash with the drone occurred while trying to take an image of an old farm house. The aircraft came in contact with a tree and took about a 20 foot fall into some tall grass without any significant damage.
Sunset that evening southeast of Waynoka.
And that’s just about how every chase season ends. We close the book on 2019 – Season 38 with a grand total of 18 chase days between March 23 and June 22. A total of eight tornadoes were observed on four different days. Photogenic tornadoes were hard to come by, but significant tornadoes were observed near Mangum, OK on May 20th and near Lipscomb, TX on May 23. The largest hail measured came on the first chase in April at 3.20″ just south of Gould, OK.
Pretty storm structure and good lightning was limited, with the best coming in association with the Putnam, OK storm on June 15th.
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The drone proved its worth and demonstrated a lot of potential in the future. Photos and video from the drone will weight heavy in an end of year video that I will be putting together over the coming weeks.
The total chase miles was 6,113 – slightly more than the last couple of years – but well below the average from 2013-2016. Again, the limited miles was because so many chase opportunities presented themself close to home. Of the 18 chases – 13 were confined to Oklahoma and 5 drifted into Texas.
Was nice to have Doug Speheger along for a chase again after missing all of 2018 with me. Also my drivers Thom Yancey and Ray Walker did their usual excellent job and got us home safely. Glad David Schweitzer was able to come along on the Mangum day – a great tornado event for him to catch.
I always mark the end of June as the end of the “storm chase season” and start of the “Oklahoma Summer Lightning Season” which will run from July 1 until – whenever the first fronts of fall arrive. Hopefully there will be a lot of drone video to get up. I never did an overnight chase this year and the budget remains for getting out at some point. The current plan is for a period in August to get to the Southwest U.S. for the monsoon.