2011-10-22 REPORTS: OK

[Brandon Lawson]

Interesting day. Got stuck in hail on the way home to watch the Tech game.

 

[Jeremy Jones]

REPORTS: OK

I ended up hanging out in the OKC metro area until I noticed the nuclear bomb of an updraft East of the Metro a ways. I was already on Rt.66 near Pops in Arcadia, so I decided to head East a bit to shoot the backside of the maturing Supercell....

I stopped in Wellston, and ended abandoning that storm to do some lightning photography back at the Pops station off Rt.66...

I guess the most exciting part to my chase is when I was almost home, and I come under some nickel to the occasional quarter size hail stones...Watch video >

 

[Rocky Rascovich]

Greg Stumpf and myself embarked on what ended up being a fruitful fall chase, and in honesty, despite not seeing a tornado, was one of the more enjoyable chases I've had. We left Greg's house in Norman a little after 1630cdt and hung around the area until we committed to the cells that were developing near Pauls Valley and moving northeast. Times are approximate here but we intercepted the storm near Asher around 1730-1800. The storm initially looked linear on radar but literally within a couple of volume scans, the cell took on supercelluar characteristics with an elevated meso. We were on the north end of this cell south of Wanette when we intercepted the core which featured 20-30mph winds but hail up to around ping pong ball size (about 1.5") we both agreed to head back north and try to get a head of this but managed to once again approach this from the north, south of Asher on Hwy 3W. By this time, the sun was setting but through the exiting rain core we were treated to a large rain free base with occasional lowerings. We did come across a swath of hail about a half to 3/4 mile wide a few miles southeast of Asher that not only covered the ground but the road as well. Most stones in this swath looked like quarter sized. In all my years of chasing in Okla., I never saw this much hail cover the ground. You can tell the trees took a beating not to mention some roof's as well. Just as it was getting dark, we were also treated to a cinnamon swirl meso which looked to have been occluded from the base of the updraft, again about 5 to 6mi. SE of Asher. Below (hopefully) is a link to a couple of point and shoot pics from the chase. This was long overdue to chase with Greg Stumpf and had a great time! Perhaps Greg can add some additional details if need be.

http://www.facebook....=1&l=f6452d6bc5

 

[Rocky Rascovich]

Looks like the link may not have worked.. hopefully this does. Not much to look at but gives you an idea of what we saw.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150426205821815.413079.515061814&type=1&l=f6452d6bc5

 

[Jason Caster]

Set out in the evening as I was watching storms fire to my North and East. Didn't want to chase the storms firing to my east, and saw good cape to my west, so I headed out to the Yukon area to watch the storm going up over El Reno. Wanted to avoid hail damage, so I stayed south and slightly east of the storm. Saw some good structure and great CG. Glad I stayed south enough to be out of the hail. Looked like a strong hail core but I had no idea the storm was strong enough to support 3.75". The pic below is about 2 miles south of I-35, maybe 3 miles west of Yukon.