March 23, 2009 Arkansas City, KS Tornadoes
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:32 Written by Roger Hill
March 23rd was a day full of strong dynamics but limited moisture/instability. My plan was to head to the I-35 corridor south of Wichita and play where the best moisture/instability intersected the dryline. We caught a nice supercell, albeit high based near Kingman, KS which was severe, produced tons of hail and had a respectable wall cloud. However, the best storm of the day would form south of Enid, Ok and move into the Arkansas City, Kansas area by late afternoon and produce two fairly weak tornadoes. The structure of the storm was by far better than I had anticipated. Later, we dropped into the Oklahoma City area to play the tail end storms for lightning. We weren't disappointed! Check out the video below, and also the photos.
MARCH 23RD OKC ANTENNA FARM LIGHTNING VIDEO (8 MB)
High based storm looking southwest near Kingman, KS. |
Storm flew past us and developed a decent clear slot and wall cloud. |
Unable to keep up with it I stopped for a last picture. |
Second storm approaching Medford, OK. Nice structure with wet RFD and developing wall cloud, looking west. |
Looking southwest near the I-35 and Kansas border area. Wet RFD surging around the updraft base. |
Big barrel multivortex tornado. Fairly weak but with rapid motion. Very nice structure to the updraft as well. |
Barrel disappeared and revealed another tornado east of Geuda Springs, KS back in the rain where an occlusion had occurred. |
Tornado turns into a tapered elephant trunk with weak debris swirl on the ground. |
Another shot of the tornado in firm contact with the ground. |
Rapidly rotating wall cloud about 30 minutes later. It never did produce. |
Massive CG strike on two antennas near OKC. |
Ground to cloud lightning. Pretty spectacular! |
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