2013-05-20 Reports: OK/KS/MO/TX

[Joe Pudlik]

Ended up on the Moore supercell/tornado...along with making a play on a few other storms.

Chase log: http://www.turbulentstorm.com/1/post/2013/06/may-20th-c-oklahoma-chase.html

Wish I would have remembered to change the settings back after the previous nights lightning photo op...

 

[Christophe Asselin]

A few months later, here is our account about chasing the Moore tornado. It stands as the fourth episode of our webserie "Rendezvous in Tornado Alley". Subtitles are available on the Youtube player.

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[Julien Batard]

One pic of the Moore tornado

 

[Michael Snyder]

Curious how these will turn out.

Here is a picture of the rope out near HWY29 on the Bray +FC

 

[Ben Holcomb]

One of the defining days of my chase career. I targeted Norman all day long after seeing what appeared to be some sort of weird boundary all day on visible satellite.

Bill Oosterbaan was driving and we ended up driving down towards Purcell before I begged, pleaded and almost beat him up to turn around and head back to Norman. Headed to the Tecumseh road exit to see the wall cloud wrapping up, then headed north to 19th street where we watched the first touchdown. Continued west on 19th to Western then up to 134th/4th and east all the way to Sooner where it crossed close to us.

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Some photos:

Tornado approaching 149th and Western looking Southwest from 134th Street

134th and Eastern looking WSW around the time it was crossing I-35

Debris as the tornado approaches Sooner Rd

Damage along I-35 and 4th street.

Full chase account at http://www.benholcomb.com/chases/20130520