Was targeting area in eastern TX panhandle, mainly up near and west of Canadian, as RUC was forecasting strong instability and shear in that area. Dan Dawson and I made it to Clinton for a data stop, realizing that it probably wasn't any better west owing to the widespread elevated convection. Despite OUNs continued optimism of tornadic potential, it was becoming apparent to us that the day wasn't going well. The Jayton profiler did show a nicer 50kt jet streak at 500mb pass through there mid afternoon, and Vici profiler was showing winds 850mb-500mb in the 45-60kt range, which was much higher than forecast. In indeed, OUN 0z sounding confirmed 45kts near 700mb, again more than forecast.
At any rate, some crapvection finally went up in Greer county (with reflectivities in the 55 dbz range), so headed towards Elk City. When we made it there, noticed there was NO storm to speak of, and noted more semi-vigorous convection trying to go to our east (certainly looked like 3000 CAPE updrafts). The storms were largely multicellular, though we did see a few wall-clouds. Oddly enough, the storms were moving NNE in such a fashion that there was more anvil to the SOUTHWEST of the updraft (upwind of the 250mb winds) than to the northeast. It turns out that the storms were moving at a speed that yielded a northeasterly (!) upper-level storm-relative wind. The updrafts were heavily tilted to about 500mb (indicated of the strong flow in the low-levels), but were vertical and eventually titlted upwind above that level. Multicell garbage with insufficient deep-layer shear for sustained supercells. :roll:
