2016-04-10 REPORTS: TX/OK

[Ben Holcomb]

Nice day yesterday in SW OK/NW TX. Started near Frederick and followed the storm to almost Duncan before dropping south to Burkburnett. Followed that until it died just north of Waurika. Great structure, a quick funnel (NE of Walters) and some small hail.



Full chase recap will be posted at http://www.oklahomachaser.com/chases/20160410

 

[Taylor Wright]

Not a great day from a chasing standpoint, but was able to see some friends and throw together my first photo timelapse. Initial plan was to chase KS/MO border near Fort Scott and hope to get lucky on some local stuff, but then models were looking decent for north central Oklahoma, so we headed to OKC and by the time we got there, we figured it was southwest Oklahoma or bust. Because of our late planning, we missed the sculpted meso near Walters. Eventually ended up at the Red River, where I took the photo below, a few miles south of Temple, OK. Not enough low level shear for storms to produce tornadoes, but they exhibited some nice structure as well as a funnel that can be seen below. On our way back up hwy 81, we skirted just east of a weird hook echo on the south end of a bow echo, that at one point appeared to be a tornado and had 100 mph radar indicated winds associated with it. Shortly afterwards we encountered some significant damage to a metal shed along the highway that we stopped to document. Got back to Lawrence around 7 am.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=536118386567529

 

[sdienst]

Same story as Ben... Started in northwest Texas playing around in hail then followed storms in Oklahoma. Decent structure around sunset. Got up close and personal with Burkburnett storm after dark but nothing to see there really.

 

[Jason Young]

Left town late , so we set up west of Walters near I-44 . Got a few brief wall clouds , beautiful up draft and then a brief funnel NE of town . Then dropped down to catch the cell going out of Texas , but gave up on it in Waurika .

 

[Brian Miner]

Started near Hollister, followed the blob as it eventually pulled itself together. Decent structure for a little while then fell apart fast after Walters. I crossed the Red River into Petrolia, Texas to get in front of the Burkburnett cell. Big night shelf and light show. View media item 1026View media item 1025View media item 1024View media item 1023View media item 1022View media item 1021