Well once again my forecast doesn't really match up with the SPC forecast during this morning. SPC has thrown a high risk out for ne KS, nw MO and extreme sw IA and se NE. I thought for sure that they would extend the high risk down to ne OK south of my target city of Bartlesville OK. However, I believe it was the 20z outlook that SPC finally upgraded ne OK to a high risk.

I and Adam Atkins left OUN at 9am. We arrived at Bartlesville around noon. We grabbed some lunch and checked out the latest model run of the RUC. The RUC continued to show the dryline moving east towards the US-75 corridor around 21z. However, with each new run of the RUC, the dryline was west of the initial position. So it was becoming apparent that initiation was going to be a little further west then we had thought.

Initiation finally occurred just east of I-35. T and Td spreads were high in this region and given storm motion and speed we decided to be patient and wait in Bartlesville for the storms to come. The cell in Osage county went tornado- warned near Hominy. This put us in an awkward position because we thought the storm would turn right approach the Bartlesville area. Being that the city is so spread out along US-75, it would be horrible to chase through. So we decided to play it safe and jog north of town and wait for the storm.

We could finally see the storm and I wasn't impressed with the structure. Every time the supercell looked as if it was going to really get going, BOOM! It would split or a left split would crash into it. It was really frustrating.



We played around a bit with the cell near Copan but it was so disorganized. So we bailed on it and headed south to intercept the cell north of Tulsa. We intercepted that cell in Nowata county. We followed the cell northeast until just across the KS border started hearing reports of a tornado on the ground south of Chetopa, KS. We were south of the tornado but had no visual of it nor the wall cloud. We never saw it but we did run into the damage path where the semi-truck was flipped over across the highway. It was interesting how the semi was laying. It was laying on the drivers side facing e/w. The damage path was just to the south of the semi. The semi looked to take a direct hit from the northern or northwest quadrant of the tornado tipping it over and blowing it 90 degrees normal to the highway.

Not too long after that, we decided to call it a day because we had lost daylight. Pretty disappointing considering the hype, but that is usually the case. I would say the failure cause today would be the backed midlevel winds causing the storms to split.