29 April 2016 / Southwest Oklahoma Severe Storms

I left Okarche around 12:30 pm and started south on Highway 81.  The first stop I made was just south of Rush Springs.  Most of the trip saw light precipitation, cloudy skies and limited visibility.  Warmer air was beginning to move north and winds were increasing out of the southeast as I saw near Rush Springs.  There had been a persistent area of towering cumulus just to my south that I could see through breaks in the overcast.  Meanwhile, a line of organizing storms extended from southeast Washita County to Jackson County.  While these storms were becoming severe, satellite and radar imagery indicated that the storms were slightly elevated behind a surface front.

My hope was that storms would form out ahead of the line that would be surface based and more isolated.

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I made it to Elgin about 3:20 pm.  The storm straight west of me at the time was located over southern Caddo County and the northern sides of the Wichita Wildlife Refuge.  Radar showed that the storm was beginning to pull a surface boundary back into the updraft region of the storm and I felt that tornado potential was starting to increase.  I drove west and northwest of Elgin as the storm approached, presenting itself about as I expected.  It was a nasty looking HP mess, and would have been nearly impossible to see a tornado that was likely embedded in the rain.  Worse for the short term goal, there was very little storm structure to be seen either.  The sky was hazy and mostly obscured by clouds.  As nasty as it looked, I just moved back to the east and south and let it pass by to my north.

At that point, the chase was basically over.  I fell in behind the storm and looked for large hail and wind damage in its wake.  The biggest hail I measured was 2.39 inches, and I did see wind or tornado damage about 6 miles southwest of Ninnekah.