2012-06-03 REPORTS: OK

[Dan Robinson]

With a SW MO/SE KS morning target, I had no idea when I left home that I would end up in the Oklahoma panhandle on Sunday. I ended up on the storm near Slapout. Pretty amazing corkscrew updraft, but not much else to report. Later, I was in the middle of the Tulsa area MCS on my way home. Other than some close-lightning-through-the-windshield shots, I didn't get much from this either. The back side lightning was amazing, but the wind-blown rain prevented setting up for photos. I got home from this trip in time to catch the hailer that went through the St. Louis metro today.

Photos and a write up are here:

http://stormhighway.com/blog2012/june412a.shtml

 

[Winston Wells]

I had the same experience as Dan R. I left Jacksonville, IL for what I thought would be a manageable chase in SE Kansas. By the time I reached Ottawa, KS, it became clear that morning clouds and showers moving northeast from northern Oklahoma would spoil any chances for destabilization over my original target. Like Dan, I was already too far to turn back, so I opted to continue south to Wellington, KS, then head west on US 160. Although dryline storms seemed likely in the late afternoon over the northern panhandles, they would also fire in an area of weaker upper-level flow and appreciably higher LCLs than eastern Kansas.

I then dropped south on US 281 out of Medicine Lodge, KS toward Alva, OK, keeping an eye on a lone, high-based, low-topped cell that had fired near Anthony, KS and was moving east along the KS/OK border. It did very little before croaking, so I continued south and then west on US 412 through Woodward for the southeast Beaver County cluster that stayed largely stationary between Slapout and Laverne. A few pictures follow.

The first shot looks west from Fort Supply:

I took the next two pictures near the intersection of US 412 and US 283. The view is to the northwest. The first shot is of the cluster's interesting LP tower:

 

[Ben Holcomb]

I too chased in NW Oklahoma and had the same luck - crappy. Recap is at http://www.benholcomb.com/Chase-Accounts/20120603 and photos are posted at http://www.benholcomb.com/photos/stormchasing/20120603