James Gustina
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I didn't get a chance to make it up to Nebraska/Iowa for this day but ended up playing out in western Oklahoma near Elk City with the weakly supercellular storm that got its act together to put out an awesome mothership/multi-tiered structure. Started out by stopping in Elk City for lunch and began drifting north as storms began firing up and down the dryline/cold front hybrid. We initially went after some decent looking storms northeast of Hammon.
Those storms got munched up as more towers went up further SW along the dryline near Sayre. We decided to drop the storm and head south as the new storm was getting some decent separation from the rest of the junk that was rolling around/along I-40. We got caught in an awkward position due to roads (Foss Lake presents some serious problems in Custer Co.) and so we ended up core punching, where we got a few quarter sized stones, and blasting back east to get out in front and were treated to an amazing tiered gust front/updraft that looked like a mothership early on.
After that the storms quickly began to gust out and we decided to head back to Norman and not even make an attempt at the lightning show that was going on in the core. All in all a great storm for the marginal end of this setup.
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Those storms got munched up as more towers went up further SW along the dryline near Sayre. We decided to drop the storm and head south as the new storm was getting some decent separation from the rest of the junk that was rolling around/along I-40. We got caught in an awkward position due to roads (Foss Lake presents some serious problems in Custer Co.) and so we ended up core punching, where we got a few quarter sized stones, and blasting back east to get out in front and were treated to an amazing tiered gust front/updraft that looked like a mothership early on.
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After that the storms quickly began to gust out and we decided to head back to Norman and not even make an attempt at the lightning show that was going on in the core. All in all a great storm for the marginal end of this setup.
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