May 7 Start: Alexandria, LA/brunch: La Bistreaux Coffee and Waffles Bar in Alexandria/end: McAlester, OK/380 miles/down day, reposition west into OK
May 8 Start: McAlester, OK/brunch: Angel’s Diner in McAlester/end: Wichita Falls, TX/393 miles
Supercells were expected near a cold front that was pushing into NW OK today. Initial thinking was to hang out a bit west of OKC, and some early activity developed to our northwest and west. We took a look at this, and I was not impressed. Another area began to bubble to our SSW, west of Lawton, so we scrambled down 81 in order to get in front of this. A decent storm began to rotate near Chattanooga, and turned to the SSE. Norman NWS stuck a tornado warning onto it. The thing showed a nice, big wall cloud beneath an impressive updraft. And we watched it sputter from there.
We went back north towards sunset for the linear/squally show closer to the cold front. That was near Geronimo.
The first two groups of photos below are off of my Canon cameras, followed by the batch from the iPhone.
Iphone pics and radar screenshots below
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