Hennessey, Oklahoma tornado – May 19, 2010

I started the morning in Guymon, quickly moving east when I realized that the target for the day was going to be 150+ miles to the southeast.  The drive through the panhandle and northwest was cloudy and breezy with occasional periods of fog and drizzle.  As I approached Oakwood in Dewey County, skies began to break and numerous TCU/building CU could be seen to the south.  I had reached the warm front/outflow boundary, and before the show started.  I was only about 45 miles from home and considered just heading back and watching things unfold from there.  I instead found a nice place to sit near the Canadian River in Northeast Custer County and monitored radar, satellite and surface trends.

At 2 pm, the first signs of storm development appeared in Ellis and Roger Mills  counties.  I was hesitant to jump that way very quick because I thought the low level flow was questionable at the time – both in the immediate area and just northeast of the storms.  At 2:34 pm, these storms had not shown a great deal of progress and my attention turned to large TCU/CBs which were forming just to my northeast.

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of the tornado.  Running to a clear spot between the house and barn, I ended up shooting about five minutes of hand held video of the first significant tornado produced by the storm.  After the tornado weakened, I drove east along Highway 51 from Hennessey encountering some very tough RFD and a good handful of other chasers.  Given the limited roads, increasing number of chasers, and more difficult viewing due to heavy rain and RFD, I called off the chase and started back toward Hennessey.  From five miles east southeast of Hennessey, I viewed another tornado with the storm to my east northeast at 5:10 pm.  I continued south on Banner Road and west toward Dover exploring options of dealing with the next storm that was moving into Kingfisher County.

I stopped once southeast of Dover and had a view of the approaching supercell.  Moving to five miles west southwest of Dover, and with the storm approaching, the view became more ominous.  I was able to view a large tornado embedded in rain about 4 miles west southwest of Dover at 5:51 pm before fleeing to the east toward Crescent.  At this point, I knew my chase was over for the day and dropped to Waterloo Road and returned to Okarche.  I did make a couple of stops for pictures of convection on the way back.  Everything around Okarche was just about as green as I have ever seen it.

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