Saturday’s chase started with a 400 mile drive South to Woodward Oklahoma, and once again the waiting game!
At 4pm towers started to go up and the chase was on.
First signs of our storm just over Waynoka
30 minutes later our little pop of clouds had grown into a severe warned storm
We drove East to get out ahead of the storm and on the best side to watch it evolve as it made it’s way to us
You can see the base of the storm start to become more defined
A P-3 Orion (hurricane Hunter) had also taken an interest in our storm
Heading South from Cherokee OK as the storm continued to intensify
The next series of photos show the evolution of the storm as it began to rotate and evolve.
As the storm started to lose it’s structure we made our way West towards our hotel for the night, along the way however there were still some spectacular sights.
A truly spectacular shelf cloud
Mammatus
Another excellent chase and another excellent example of forecasting from Mr Daniel Gregory. It looks like we’ll be heading back into Texas for Sunday’s chase, with a marginal risk area over the pan handle. This should leave us in great position for the enhanced risk area on Monday.