Current mood:
accomplished
While my chase partners were out chasing without me, I was stuck in Cordell watching supercells blowup just to die as another forms behind it and runs it over. After everything to the South and west died out I thought all hope was lost in seeing something interesting.
Well, with the clock nearing midnight, I was readying myself for bed as a tornado warning was isued for NWern Washita County. So, I called Gene Thieszen and Johnny Hall, who were just returning from a failed chase in Kansas, and told 'em they weren't done yet. They came to pick me up and we headed west.
As we were headed west down SH-152 we saw several mesos, none of which were the warned parts of the storm. We then headed North toward Burns Flat, OK where we took a quick look and decided to head back east to stay out of the hail. As we did, we saw a very active wall cloud to our north with a very large funnel. When we neared Cordell it tornadoed. It was on the ground for an approximate 5 minute duration before quickly disipating. At the time of touchdown, Johnnny was on the phone with an Emergency Management Official who relayed the report.
A few moments later, tornado reports were coming in near Corn, OK. We then raced east to catch the rope stage of the tornado coming out of the rain. After this, due to the darkness, we called it a night.
Two tornadoes in less than an hour. Not bad, if you ask me. It wasn't until later that I had relized that I got my first confimed Oklahoma tornadoes. Both, less than 20 miles from my home town.
-Eric
Sry, no pics. Crappy camera and no good light.