April 2, 1999

On this chase I took off with Danny Cheresnick (driver) and Tony Waters, while we followed Jeff Basara and Brian Fehrn in Jeff's Jeep. After stopping for gas and reevaluation north of Lawton, we headed further southwest. By the time we reached Altus, OK, towers were starting to go off along the dryline, both to our north and south. We decided to go for the northern cells, which were closer to the cold front but we thought had better dynamic support for tornadoes.

As we drove north on Highway 6, the cell developed into a very well defined supercell. I took tons of pictures, but none of them turned out as nice as the storm looked in real life. By the time we caught up with the storm just east of Elk City, a wall cloud was evident. We pulled over to take a look, but rotation was no longer as well defined and we were soon hit with some pretty strong outflow. Still, it was not a bad chase for the first one of the season.