![]() ![]() Eventually, though, numerous other storms developed to the south and southeast of this initial storm and it quickly became a mess. The incipient storm was small and had some shape to it with a precipitation core separated from the updraft area. I would love to live out here!! Anyway, as a young storm started to grow to my west, I ventured southwest to Calhan where I then began my journey on farm roads south toward Hwy 94. The landscape is just beautifu on the Palmer with wonderful wildflower growth and green rolling hills. I drove as far southwest as Simla before I decided to hang out on a farm road. ![]() By the time I reached Limon, I already noticed decent towers developing over the Palmer Divide, so I drove southwest on Highway 24 - “the highway to Palmer storms”. Moisture was still very good across eastern Colorado to the east of the Palmer Divide with dewpoints in the lower to mid 60s across far eastern Colorado, so once storms reached this moisture/high CAPE, they should thrive…given the marginal wind shear. Water vapor satellite was showing a subtle jet streak/mid level moist band moving into western Colorado, timed to come out into the adjacent high plains by afternoon. I began this chase in Sidney, NE with a target of the Palmer Divide (around and south of Limon, CO) in mind. I had very little choice other than to chase as close to home (Dodge City) as possible, seeing as I had to start day shift early the next morning. I must say, I was extremely pleased with how this chase turned out. It wasn’t on the ground for long, but Tulsa confirmed it the next day.…Long-lived severe storm complex with beautiful striated updraft/shelf cloud structures - from the Palmer Divide to Oakley, Kansas… We followed the storm further east towards Afton, and managed to witness a brief tornado in between the flashes of lightning. I was weary as a large scuddy lowering had just come through town and the air felt cold and the flags were indicating steady outflow. We filled up in Vinita and Tulsa issued another tornado warning. The lack of roads up there really hurt our chances of staying with the storm. We got hail as we headed down towards Vinita. What was a nice bowl lowering because a gusty shelf cloud in the matter of a few minutes. It was dark, so I tried my best to stay ahead, but it was hard to leave some of the terrain I found up there northeast of Nowata for the crappier terrain further east.Įventually Tulsa issued a tornado warning on it, and it seemed like a tornado was imminent but never seemed to happen. ![]() We headed north of Nowata then east on SH10 where the storm seemed to take on it’s best supercell shape with a large mesocyclone and even a wall cloud underneath. It seemed to be struggling with the cap, but the storms up closer to the triple point or at least dryline/warm front intersection in Osage county seemed to be doing much better, so we took 169 north out of Tulsa towards Nowata. We knew the main show would be out of reach up by Joplin or west, but we were hoping for something to fire a little further south along the dryline, and just about dusk it did.Īs I neared Tulsa, a little troll storm had fired over the city. I was still at work, and bailed out and headed home, leaving Norman by 6pm. I had no real plans to chase, but that changed at about 5:30 when the SPC issued a MD and Tornado Watch for NE Oklahoma. ![]()
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