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You are here: Home / 2021 / May 3, 2021 South-central Oklahoma Junkfest

May 3, 2021 South-central Oklahoma Junkfest

May 3, 2021 By William Reid Leave a Comment

 

Start:  Dodge City, KS

Lunch:  Purcell, OK/Braums

End:  Ardmore, OK

550 miles

Storm Reports

SPC Day One/20Z

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 498    SPC Mesoscale Discussion 505    SPC Mesoscale Discussion 509

 

 

 

Woohoo — 10 percent hatched tornado risk!  South-central Oklahoma!  Upper 60s dew points!  May 3rd!

Today’s chase was a BIG DUD, as the storms intercepted were briefly interesting before becoming disorganized and junky.  I had to decide which side of the Red River to chase, and chose the north side.  The boundary was in southern OK and appeared to be a little better for tornadoes.  We were hanging out in the vicinity of Dickson, OK, when a decent cell developed to our west, near I-35 and Ardmore.  It approached our position, and the position of a lot of other chasers who were ready to get video of big tornadoes.   The pics below are towards the west and depict a decent low-level structure and even maybe a stubby funnel cloud.

 


 

Unfortunately, there was little reason to take any additional photos thereafter.  The storm headed to the northeast and was soon mired above the cooler and less-stable air.  We waited around for new stuff that was coming at us from the southwest, but these storms were lame, too.  Far too soon, the day had become a congealed-storm disaster and we were running around looking for scraps.  And not the Brady Bunch dog.

A lot more trees were viewed around Madill and then we found a Mexican Restaurant.

There was a decent tornado along I-35 in Ellis County, TX, near dusk, but we didn’t miss anything particularly spectacular and photogenic today.

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