05/30/10 Reports: OK

[cdcollura]

Good day all,

MODS ... Feel free to add Kansas to this thread too if anyone posts for that state.

I basically was chasing in the north-central Oklahoma area today after a long drive from Colby, Kansas as my chase trip is winding down and I'll need to be back in Dallas, TX by June 1 to return to FL.

I caught two interesting storms, one briefly a supercell before it gusted out near Nash, OK and another farther south near Crescent City, OK. Large hail, strong winds, and some funnels / wall clouds were observed.

Above: First storm north of Nash, OK with brief wall cloud / updrafting scud.

Above: Interesting storm near Nash, OK with forward-flank meso on gust front (?).

Above: Wall cloud west of Crescent City, OK.

Above: Wall cloud and lightning (with small funnel) west of Crescent City, OK.

 

[Jeremy Jones]

I too chased in N.Oklahoma. I caught up with the same storm just North of Pond Creek. Ended up dropping South and East to intercept the new convection going up. I ended up just South of US 51 at the rest area and was treated to a nice shelf cloud...

I tried to hang out around my house a couple of miles or so to shoot some lightning after the sun set, but just my luck that as soon as I get set up for the CG Barrage, my battery died. I forgot to charge my backup while I was chasing today, So I missed the first round of Lightning on that round. I Woke up around 4am, went out and was in the rain but I was able to shoot some lightning from inside my car...

 

[Matt Grans]

I was up by Alva OK and saw some beautiful Shelf cloud, squall line storms, got under a rapidly rotating wall cloud. Three storms that fed off each other. Photos will follow soon.