April 21 2004

April 21, 2004. Target area was west of OKC. Met up with Matt Biddle and co in Norman. We went out to north of Newcastle. Storms went up to our north, but we didn't feel we could chase very well through the OKC metro area. Now towers went up to our south and we targeted them. We went south on 76 to near Dibble. There we encountered dime size hail and went east to get out ahead of the storm. A wall cloud rapidly formed behind us. We stopped to photograph it, but it was undercut by outflow. We continued east trying to keep up with the storms. More formed to the south seeding each other. One high based shear funnel was spotted near Lexington. Several chasers were watching it and I was afraid a tornado warning was going to go out, but luckily it didn't. We gave up east of Asher. I continued back home to Shawnee. Looking back, the storms didn't look as intense as expected. Another storm formed behind the line and moved east along I-40. As I approached Shawnee a wall cloud formed and the storm had nice curvature to the base. It produced Quarter size hail on the north side of Shawnee.