4/10/07 REPORTS: OK

[Chris C Sanner]

WOWZA!

So my storm chase day, which I honestly didn't think I'd say this evening, started off on my way to Duncan, OK to pick up some equipment. As I was driving I noticed a storm had exploded well to my NW and was taking on Supercell characteristics. By the time I had reached Duncan, the storm was tornado warned and had some really impressive structure. It was still rather high based but that began to lower as I watched outside of the store waiting on my brother. I rendezvoused with my chase partner VIA a vehicle switch and after that we were pretty much stuck on the backside of the storm the rest of the way unfortunately. There was a time the storm had some really strong rotation (about the time it was probably over Marlow/Bray) but it never produced from my vantage point, which might or might not be the case since I was 7-8 miles away at that point. I'll have some stills up in a few....the storm had some pretty decent structure throughout and was a nice surprise. I'm taking it as a good omen for the late week

Note on stills: These are all before I joined up with Chris Snider and were all filmed by him...so I'm not completely sure all the details on when/where these were shot and where they were looking, so just a disclaimer

EDITED: Updated with photos and fixed a spelling error..........

 

[Brett Roberts]

I left at 6:30 with Brandon Lawson and Bryan Putnam after seeing the rapid intensification and right turn on the Comanche Co. storm. We hauled down I-35 to Pauls Valley, then decided based on the warning information on NWR to continue a little more southward. Took OK-7 west into far northern Carter County, where we stopped to watch the incredible structure on this supercell as it raced ESE just off to our north. The upward motion into the storm we observed as nothing short of amazing. I can't stress enough how visually impressive this storm was (as Chris's photos show well) - I've attached a few of my shots, but we were honestly so close by the time we had a clear view that even with the wide-angle lens I couldn't begin to get everything I wanted in the frame.

 

[Mike Umscheid]

Brett and Chris... fantastic images, I'm jealous... I wish I was on the correct side of this thing. I made a critical error in going after an initial storm near Cordell before this storm exploded to the south, and I played catch-up ever since. Nevertheless, I did get some fine views from the west... Here is the view from about 7:00pm looking east

And here is the radar image with my GPS location within a few minutes of the photo above: