Jeff Bartlett
EF0
I am posting this report only because, for the first time in my chasing career, I think I may have been the only chaser on a beautiful cell in the state of Oklahoma. It is very rare to have a storm all to yourself in this state.
I left Stillwater at 3 p.m. and headed west towards Hennessey with the simple goal of seeing some towering cumulus. Radar and mesonet showed a north/south boundary along highway 81 and moving back to the west (I assume it was old outflow from the morning convection). I watched some towers go up to my northwest and meandered my way north of Lahoma based on the storm direction to the NE. The storms were fairly high based and, well, just pretty much sucked with only a couple of rain shafts and no real upraft structure to speak of. As the storms approached, they appeared to change their direction of travel from the NE to the E, then the SE. I dropped south of Lahoma and noticed that it now appeared to be heading due south (apparently it latched onto the boundary as it took a dive to the south). Not only was it moving due south, but it also had a very familiar appearance. Although it lacked any sort of updraft/inflow features, it appeared visually to be very similar to 7/12/2010 and 7/20/2009. A conical wallcloud developed and showed signs of rotation for about five minutes before it fell apart. That would become the first of many very picturesque wallclouds that I would witness on our way south. I kept myself just east of the wallcloud and south of the precip core for the next hour or so until I ran out of decent road options south of Lacey, plus I had a prior engagement back home that I had to leave for anyway.
South of Lahoma and west of Drummond.
East of Ames.
North of Lacey.
North of Loyal.
I left Stillwater at 3 p.m. and headed west towards Hennessey with the simple goal of seeing some towering cumulus. Radar and mesonet showed a north/south boundary along highway 81 and moving back to the west (I assume it was old outflow from the morning convection). I watched some towers go up to my northwest and meandered my way north of Lahoma based on the storm direction to the NE. The storms were fairly high based and, well, just pretty much sucked with only a couple of rain shafts and no real upraft structure to speak of. As the storms approached, they appeared to change their direction of travel from the NE to the E, then the SE. I dropped south of Lahoma and noticed that it now appeared to be heading due south (apparently it latched onto the boundary as it took a dive to the south). Not only was it moving due south, but it also had a very familiar appearance. Although it lacked any sort of updraft/inflow features, it appeared visually to be very similar to 7/12/2010 and 7/20/2009. A conical wallcloud developed and showed signs of rotation for about five minutes before it fell apart. That would become the first of many very picturesque wallclouds that I would witness on our way south. I kept myself just east of the wallcloud and south of the precip core for the next hour or so until I ran out of decent road options south of Lacey, plus I had a prior engagement back home that I had to leave for anyway.
