November 5th, 2008 Oklahoma Supercells
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 19:55 Written by Roger Hill
It isn't often that a setup warrants a long trip to Oklahoma in November. However, the setup for November 5th was more than conducive to rotating supercells. Strong shear, good lift, decent moisture, but a narrow instability axis would support supercells this day. I arrived on scene by mid afternoon just as storms exploded. These supercells were very nice, producing large hail, high winds, wall clouds and several attempts at tornadogenesis, but in the end, no tornadoes would form. After dark the lightning was spectacular. Some of the best I have ever witnessed in November. Click on an image below for a larger picture.
Nice HP supercell northeast of Oklahoma City. |
Wet RFD surges around rapidly rotating wall cloud and nails us with golfball sized hail. |
Monsterous HP supercell heading west of Tulsa. |
Separate classic supercell follows nearly same path as the first storm and produces copious amounts of CG lightning. |
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Supercell has the classic mothership appearance complete with low hanging rotating wall cloud. It came very close to producing a tornado here. |
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