This was a great chase. It started around 9:00 AM. I had just met Bob, Eric, Kenny, and Steve a few weeks ago. Bob owed me a free chase ride, so I took him up on his offer. We had an extra seat, so we brought along my friend Matt Gaffner. He was quiet excited. We raced off to western Oklahoma which I quickly found out is a very nice place to chase. We were fully equipped in Bob's Aztec with GPA, satellite radar, ham radio, SLR, two camcorders, temperature and dew point sensors, and much more. I got on air for the first time ever using Bob's ham radio.
Around Woodward there were two storms: one south of I-40 and the other north of I-40. We went on the south storm, and I got to see my first tornado. I could not actually see that it was a tornado because we were too far away, but people who were closer reported it on the ground. This storm died out, so we went on the north storm and saw some great cloud formations. Once it started to get dark, we stopped for dinner with other chasers in far northwest OKC. There was a squall line on the dry line in western OK. After dinner we decided to go back out and take lightning pictures. We ended up going a few miles north of Kingfisher, OK. Along the way we saw the theater that burned in Kingfisher which turned out to be an eight alarm fire. We ended up getting back in Norman around 2:00 AM the next day. After dropping Matt off, Bob and I went for breakfast, then were too full to sleep, so we went to Lake Thunderbird to try and see the sunrise through the clouds...(awww :) )