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March 17, 2003
March 17, 2003. I went out with Matt Biddle and a Jeff Sutton (a friend who went chasing for the first time) We originally tageted the Lawton area. We hit the road just after 2pm. Jim informed us that there was a nice cell ongoing and we should head west on I40 to intercept it. By the time We got to El Rino, we heard that it was moving more east than north from the radio. We dropped south on 81. We got frequent updates on the phone from Jim and decided to head south to Lawton to intercept storms that were developing there.
The storm near Lawton looking south.
We went just south of Pumpin Center (east of Lawton) and watched a storm to our SouthWest. It was not moving NNE like all the other cells. It moved very sowly towards us. It had a nice wall cloud and went through several transitions in form. At one point it was a rotating stack of plates above us. I couldn't get a good picture from our angle. The RFD cut into it and tore it in two.
The storm put out a little hais and we waited for it to pass before continuing east after the storm.
It then developed a bowl shaped lowering that was rotating like crazy.
Several times it dropped a cone and the cone pesisted several minutes, but we could not see strong rotation, and it did not touch down. This shot is taken near Marlow just after sunset.
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