2012-04-14 MISC: TX/OK/KS/NE/IA

[Damon Lewis]

So, will the OK tornadoes that many chasers documented in OK on the Waynoka-EMP storm ever get into the official record? It looks like there were at least 7 or 8 tornadoes in OK, but there are only 4 in the OUN LSR (I saw 4 myself and missed all the Waynoka-area hoses and any up near the KS border). Also, on Friday there were two pretty-well documented tornadoes in SW OK (Blair and Cooperton) that never made it into the record either. I have tended to notice this with the OUN office, with reports either late or missing altogether.

My buddy kept rolling on his iPhone after we shut down the video cameras and he caught a third funnel apparently touching down after the sisters dissipated in Alfalfa count.
That's 2 if not 3 between 7:50-8:10. We saw three vortices hit the ground and immediately lift about 3 minutes before storm produced the larger funnel. Very active storm for the 30 minutes we were directly on it.

 

[Skip Talbot]

E-mail or PM me your GPS logs or Spotter Network position history if you chased this event and want to be included in the radar/tornado track animation. Thanks

 

[Tony Perkins]

Here is the Spotter Network "antcam" for April 14th:
Watch video >

 

[Lee Smith-Whaley]

I saw this write-up posted by a friend on facebook. It was written by Kevin Darmofal NWS Wichita lead meterologist.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=april14_ked

 

[Jeff Duda]

As the storm approached, strong inflow winds from the south were felt at the NWS office in the hour or so before it moved into Wichita.

Given that the storm was to the south of the office, why would inflow winds be coming from the south? I have to believe there's a typo in there. Given the winds were actually from the south, that's more indicative of strong synoptic scale flow rather than storm inflow. The strongest gusts came from the east. That's inflow.