Can you imagine working for the State Chamber of Oklahoma?

I can’t remember the quote exactly, but the credit goes to Vince Miller who had me laughing hard.  How in the hell can you get anyone to move to this state?  We start with blizzards that will kill you at the beginning of the year… kick in severe drought and the hottest summer ever… dry up your water… burn you down with wildfires… all the while throwing tornadoes and earthquakes at you.  It scares me and I ain’t afraid of nothin’.

Parameters came together on Monday for severe storms which hit southwest Oklahoma the hardest.  Doug Speheger and I called it a chase day – met in El Reno – and hit the road west on I-40.

Our first target storm moved northeast into Greer County where we intercepted it at Willow.  We were excited at first as the storm displayed a large wall cloud and had a considerable amount of motion.  It even got to the point where we thought a weak tornado may have been occurring with it.  We didn’t get to enjoy it long – it sent off a left split… stuck its tongue out at us and quickly became disorganized.

We were still in position to play other storms and started toward one which was organizing rapidly as it approached Hobart.  We put ourselves in a great position just south of the city and watched a strongly rotating wall cloud develop to our northwest.  This too didn’t last long and we were left scratching our heads as the storm went downhill quick just after it seemed to be getting the show going.

With two good storms, but not much to show for it under our belts, we started toward the supercell which had been producing tornadoes from Tillman County to northwest Comanche County.  We plotted an intercept point near Fort Cobb and took off with our last chance of the afternoon.  We might have killed this one too, but it appeared to have too much momentum for us not to see a tornado.  The first tornado we saw was about 8 to 10 miles southwest of Fort Cobb.  Condensation was not on the ground for very long, but the rotation was incredible and other tornadoes would occur with it.  There were a couple of times that we suspected that “something was happening” – we just didn’t have a good view because of trees and hills.  Finally, we broke into a clear area north of Fort Cobb and watched as a long-lived, large, and strong looking tornado took shape.  Our best photos came as the tornado was several hundred yards wide and exhibited a quite impressive multi-vortex state.  The storm finally figured out that we were hanging around and decided to start its quick weakening.

We were quite pleased with our results – of which included me seeing my first November tornadoes.  There were several little things that we could have done which may have – or may not have – improved our chances at better results.  In the end, you have to realize that luck still plays as much in the process as anything.  Overall, the Doug and Dave show worked pretty well again.

After dropping off Doug at his vehicle, I headed into severe storms that were impacting Okarche.  I have not officially measured the rainfall yet, but I’m sure we are sitting at least over 2.50 inches for the day.
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I was on the phone with Rocky telling storm stories and started feeling my chair shake back and forth… once again – another earthquake.  This one was an aftershock which reached M4.7.  Not often one gets to experience tornadoes and earthquakes only a few hours apart.  I have a couple of pictures of the tornadoes… sorry, didn’t get any of the earthquake.

First is a small tornado over some beautiful fall colors – southwest of Fort Cobb:

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The Second is of the ugly, multi-vortex event northwest of Fort Cobb.

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It still appears that plenty of rain is possible over the next 12 to 18 hours and maybe a few other severe events.  With our luck – another earthquake or two.