Too late to the action

Chase Recap:

Couldn’t leave Norman until 2:45 and thought I’d have enough time to make it south to the storms. As it turned out, I’d just miss the tornadoes down near Avoca

Departing Norman

We left Norman and took I-44 to US-62 to 183. News of the car accident started coming out about the time we were in Lawton. By the time we were in Frederick, we had started figuring out who was involved. We continued down 183 thru Vernon and then down to Seymour. There was one isolated storm producing tornadoes just north of Abilene. Our target storm was the storm north of the tornado producer.

Storm Intercept south of Haskell

As we neared the storm, we found a good Farm to Market road to intercept the storm on. Tornado reports were coming in as well, so we thought for sure we’d see a tornado. As we got south of Haskell, we took FM618 east and popped out of the precipitation. We were looking at a whales mouth, which didn’t match the tornado photos we were seeing on social media.

Unfortunately we were about 5-10 minutes late and missed the tornadoes.

Following the storm Northeast

We continued following the storm north, hoping it would wrap back up again. It didn’t. As we got near Seymour, it produced some baseball/2.75″ hail and I managed to crack my windshield.

We decided, even if it was dark, that we’d run back towards the west to get on a developing storm near Munday, The storm exhibited a huge (2-3 mile wide) wall cloud and seemed like perhaps it’d wrap but, but it never seemed to get it done. Low surface temperatures were likely to blame. We followed this back up to US 82 before heading home for the day.