May 23rd, 2011 Homestead, OK Tornado
Written by Roger Hill
Things looked decent this day. However, due to high cloud bases, the tornado threat never really materialized. We went west from Enid, OK to play the dryline and encountered a nearly stationary supercell, albeit high based. This cell eventually dropped a slender truncated elephant trunk shaped tornado that was on the ground maybe 3-4 minutes. We later dropped south to another supercell that spun like crazy, and then abruptly died. Very wierd day, but at least we did catch a tornado. Thanks Rich Hamel for your use of your tight shot of the tornado. I had the wrong lens on my camera. Click on the photo for a larger image.
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| High based supercell with inflow band. | Funnel cloud develops and touches down. |
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| Rich Hamel's shot of the tornado with debris cloud. | Second supercell south of Kingfisher. Looked good for 30 minutes then died quickly. |
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