Chris C Sanner
EF5
Well, I missed the two highly visible tornadoes near my hometown (DOH!) as I was engaged with a very nice looking wall cloud with very good rotation near Lindsay. After finally coming to my senses and getting on the tail-end, we saw most of the action near Pernell/Elmore on through Ada. God bless the GPS, it kept us ahead of the storm the whole day. Props to that thing.
Anywho, onward with the report. We watched the wall cloud in the Elmore City-Pernell area and heard the reports of tornadoes, but we watched this thing the whole time and did not see anything highly visible, so I bet they were rain wrapped, which I will have to check film on to check. Either way, the storm cycled down and went through a split about I-35, which really threw us off for awhile, as I found myself in between two storms and both had some decent rotation at times.
Finally, I'm pretty sure we observed a rain-wrapped tornado about 10-15 miles WSW of Ada. We experienced some ping-pong balls falling from the sky just before that, then the wall cloud completely wrapped itself in rain. We approached from the North and we began seeing a lot of leaves falling out of the air just about a 1/2 mile from the rain. We then saw a couple of trees broken in half, but I'm not sure if this was from a tornado or not, but I'm fairly sure the leaves were caused by a nader.
We later heard the reports of debris falling from the air from this same storm, so I imagine it was one of the folks who were convoying behind us (we had channells 11, 4 and 9 right behind us for about an hour and a half). Either way, it was a great storm and another great set of memories. I wish we could've saw the first two within a few miles of home, but I will not be too picky, this was the first Supercell I've seen in what seems like forever. Now time to focus on the next event...
Anywho, onward with the report. We watched the wall cloud in the Elmore City-Pernell area and heard the reports of tornadoes, but we watched this thing the whole time and did not see anything highly visible, so I bet they were rain wrapped, which I will have to check film on to check. Either way, the storm cycled down and went through a split about I-35, which really threw us off for awhile, as I found myself in between two storms and both had some decent rotation at times.
Finally, I'm pretty sure we observed a rain-wrapped tornado about 10-15 miles WSW of Ada. We experienced some ping-pong balls falling from the sky just before that, then the wall cloud completely wrapped itself in rain. We approached from the North and we began seeing a lot of leaves falling out of the air just about a 1/2 mile from the rain. We then saw a couple of trees broken in half, but I'm not sure if this was from a tornado or not, but I'm fairly sure the leaves were caused by a nader.
We later heard the reports of debris falling from the air from this same storm, so I imagine it was one of the folks who were convoying behind us (we had channells 11, 4 and 9 right behind us for about an hour and a half). Either way, it was a great storm and another great set of memories. I wish we could've saw the first two within a few miles of home, but I will not be too picky, this was the first Supercell I've seen in what seems like forever. Now time to focus on the next event...