4/21/08 REPORTS: OK/KS

[Simon Brewer]

Documented a short-lived supercell WSW of Purcell, OK: got some nice stucture and lightning pics and witnessed quarter-size hail, but I bet there were larger stones in the core to my north pics and web link below:

http://www.stormgasm.com/4-21-08/4-21-08.htm

Simon

 

[Kevin Rider]

Jake Wallentine and I watched towers go up to our south of our dorm room. We then decided to head south towards the developing cell WSW of Purcell hoping at the very least to see some good structure. We did find the structure that we were looking for to the NW of Pauls Valley on highway 19 and south of Maysville. Observed a very nice meso that passed just to our north. Once the storm got to I-35 it quickly dissapated. While watching the storm crap out we visited with Chris Whitehead and his chase partner for awhile before heading back to Norman. It was a very short-lived storm and the lack of lightning near the meso made it hard to make out once the sun light went away. Overall a locally convienient chase made it worth while.

 

[Andrew Ryan]

Got some pretty decent lightning pictures, considering I only had to step outside and not go anywhere. This is from Norman looking South.

Detailed account on my site at http://www.shearamazement.com/storms/2008/4-21/

 

[tommywinning]

Took a study break to try and catch a few lightning shots. Dropped just south of Norman, and came up with this.

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

Got down to Maysville about 10 minutes before the hail did. It had pretty good structure, but the hail was the highlight of our trip down. Probably experienced about 20 minutes of near continuous hail. Some were definitely bigger than golfball. They were all very spikey, but solid. They sounded a lot bigger than they were.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3k1lVzT8D4

I was able to grab a few pics east of Maysville without a tripod (left it behind when were ran out of Norman to check this thing out). They turned out pretty good considering I was holding the camera.

 

[Greg Ansel]

We got pummeled just west of Maysville on Hwy 19. They didn't post it, but we had over 2.5" hail in our location. We saw a few other chasers who can verify. I have hail guards on my truck, and we still had five good sized dents on the body. Awesome storm, just wish we could have got it going a little earlier. Be safe everyone! Team Remora.

 

[Jonathan Whitehead]

Maysville Hailfest 2008

OK didnt bust out till I was sure storm over Lindsey had sufficiently busted the cap. When I did finally pull the trigger it was a mad frenzy as I was only half dressed. Anyways, filled up and made my way to 35 and as I was making cloverleaf, friend from my METR class called asking for ride so I literally had to pull onto the median of the on ramp to 35.
Met up with him at made our way south to Purcell where we took 39? west then 74? south to Maysville. As we approached storm from Purcell you could easily tell it was LP. About that time it began splitting. As we approached Maysville just at dark we began encountering light dime sized hail. At that point I knew I needed to seek shelter in Maysville based on our located wrt the storm. Well no sooner did we find an awning/carport the sky opened up. For 15 min straight it hailed in Maysville. Most of the hail was no smaller then dime size. Toward the end of the hailfest the hail grew to golfballs with some isolated tennis balls. I uploaded some pics of hail with coins. But that was really the highlight of the day as it began to slowly weaken as it approached 35 then died completely east of 35.

Want to say hi to my good friend Allan Broese and Jake Wellentine whom I ran into while i was out.

Heres link to my pics:
http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj256/ouweatherboi69/04-21-08%20cap%20chase/

 

[Brett Roberts]

Like most everyone else in Norman, we (Brandon Lawson, Bryan Putnam and myself) flew out the door sometime around 7:30pm as a massive Cb exploded in McClain/Garvin Co. Having to play catchup was fairly frustrating, since we'd driven down to Pauls Valley about an hour and a half earlier hoping something could fire in the primed environment around PVJ-ADM-DUA, but quickly turned around upon seeing the Cu field completely vanish down that way.

The updraft was certainly one of the more impressive I've seen, with a rock-hard anvil laden with pronounced mammatus... about half an hour after there'd been nothing but some benign-looking TCu visible in the western sky from Norman.

We dropped south on I-35, then west to Maysville where the rounded base of the southern/original supercell was visible just to our WSW, so we continued west out of town. By this time, it had just become severe-warned, with the NWS indicating quarter-size hail. It sure looked like it was capable of more than that, though, and sure enough, only a mile or two W of town the thud of ping pong balls on the roof/windshield (with perhaps a golfball or two) began. We retreated east, then dropped south, but not without encountering a bit more large hail... it was clear Maysville was about to get pounded, which it certainly did judging by other accounts/video/pics. After finding a suitable pulloff ~3 S of Maysville, we leisurely observed the great LP structure and anvil-crawlers for half an hour or so.

Later on, after moving southeast of town, structure appeared even better, but of course by this time it had to be completely dark . This was the best I could do given the (lack of) lighting.

Conveniently enough, the cap appeared to eat the storm alive shortly after it crossed the interstate into poor terrain, so we got home less than 3 hours after leaving, having observed a very nice sup close to home. Pretty sweet deal, other than not having happened maybe an hour earlier.