Jason Montano and I were also unsuccessful as well, but all in all, not a bad day considering we saw some awesome structure. We left Norman and headed toward Pauls Valley at 1230 and waited in Pauls Valley until about 3 until things finally started going up to the south of the OKC storm.
We decided that we wanted to focus our efforts on the southern extent of the line as we felt that any storms that developed in that region were in a more favorable environment for tornadic activity. We left Pauls Valley and headed west to Lindsay where we dropped south. At this time, storms were really getting going in our vicinity and we followed a rapidly developing cell south of Lindsay back through Elmore City and then to I35 where we met up with quite a decent hail shower.
We regrouped in Pauls Valley and got a fresh radar update, then deciding to stick with the cell we were on (deciding against the Purcell storm as it appeared that it would get cutoff by our storm). We followed this cell east toward Ada, navigating many rural roads which I was afraid we might get stuck on until we were about 5 miles west of Hwy 1 and Roff. At this location, we saw a rapidly lowering wall cloud and much better rotation than we had seen all day. At one point, it appeared as if the whole wall cloud was going to come down to the ground. Also, the upward motion of scud into this wall cloud was very fast. We followed this lowering north on hwy 1 and then to hwy 3, where we decided to call it a day and head home.
This one will work:
