May 13, 2008 Graford, TX storm

There was a fairly decent chance of tornadic supercells on this day along the I-35 corridor in OK.  In fact, I think we had a moderate risk over much of Central OK.  We targeted the area around Duncan, and watched and waited as some storm towers tried to break through the warm cap.  We were in between upper-level support/waves, though, and the cap won out.  There were some marginally severe cells near OKC, and none south of Norman.  We blasted southwest into Texas and caught a weakening supercell near Graford just after sunset.  The base of this cell teased us a little, but by-and-large it was less than impressive.  Lightning was too sporadic and I wound up with little worthwhile image-wise.  Earlier in the day one decent updraft quickly assumed a pileous cloud cap.  We spent the night in Weatherford.  330 miles.