April 17, 2002:
This was a fabulous day that started out with a moderate risk issued by the Storm Prediction Center. I decided that since the tornado risk wasn't great, I would wait until something broke the cap before I headed out. At 4 pm, the first severe storm went up near Woodward, Oklahoma. Grant Hicks and I decided it was time to go. We took I-40 west, then took several "black top" roads north to get to the storm. The whole time we could see the storm put up convective bomb after convective bomb before we finally got in position near the Oklahoma/Kansas border. Thereafter, we sat (literally) in one place and watched the beautiful low-precipitation (LP) storm rotate. Got some incredible time lapse as the supercell would periodically replace the updraft.

Beautiful LP Supercell
Incredible Convection
Pileus Cloud Atop Hard Convection



All Images Copyrighted by Gabriel Garfield (2003)