March 31st, 2008 Southwest Oklahoma Supercells
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 15:43 Written by Roger Hill
March 31st was one of those potential bust days with a strong cap in place across western Oklahoma. The ingredients were there, now we just needed enough forcing and convergence to get a storm to form. And they did! A beautiful classic/lpish supercell developed not far from Hobart and tracked all the way to Oklahoma City, being Tornado Warned the entire time. It came close a couple of times, but the low level flow was just not strong enough to produce a tornado. What we did encounter was baseball sized hail that shattered my windshield. Check out the photos below. Click o the image for a much larger one.
Intense supercell southwest of Rocky, OK. |
Wider shot of the structure. |
Storm looks more lpish. |
One of my favorites with the stack of plates appearance. |
Dense and intense hail core. |
Precip wrapping around the updraft with radar presentation showing a dramatic hook here. |
Lowering almost to ground! I thought we might be in luck here! |
Lowering/weak funnel under the updraft looking east. |
Several left splits made a scenic photo. |
Gigantic hailstones on the ground! |
Nighttime shot at 800 ISO, 13 second exposure. Beautiful structure! |
Long streaming inflow band with numerous anvil zits. |
More beautiful nighttime structure, looking northwest. |
Looking west, notice the starts next to the updraft. |
This is an HDR image comprised of 3 differently exposed images. |
Another HDR image. |
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My favorite HDR image of all of them. Absolutely stunning! |
Wider shot, done as an HDR also. |
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