SPC Event Log

Photos from the Chase

Videos from the Chase

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Location:	Northeast Oklahoma
Total Time:	5 Hours

 

2:30pm (1930 UTC)

Began to watch conditions to the north of Tulsa, OK.  Expected some thunderstorms to develop in Kansas and then coalesce into an MCS and move into parts of northeastern Oklahoma in the evening.  Nothing to major.  The area of expected initiation was around Sedan, KS.  Storms began to form and hour later and quickly lined out and formed a small MCS.  Further development was expected to the west.

 

5:45pm (2245 UTC)

A really nice, isolated supercell began to form in northern Osage County, OK.  Being isolated, it underwent explosive developement.  It had some very impressive structure both visually and on radar.  In fact, you could see the RFD on radar.

 

7:31pm (0031 UTC)

I finally got cleared from work to chase, so I headed north out of Tulsa on US-75.  This ranks right up there as one of the most beautiful supercells I've ever seen.  Here's some video that I took from the junction of US-75 and OK-20 east of Skiatook, OK (6.7 MB).

 

I spent the next couple of hours punching in and out of that storm after it weakened.  I never experienced any hail, but I did run into some very heavy rain and about 40-45mph winds.  On my way home, I punched through another precip core.  Before that, I was treated to a really nice ightning show US-75 between Bartlesville and Ramona.  Here's a little video montage of the lightning (3.5 MB).

 

I arrived back in Tulsa around 12:30am (0520 UTC).

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