Home   Tropical Cyclones   · NRL Satellite Images   · National Hurricane Center   · Model Tracks   Work & Research   · Climatology plotter   · AMS Abstracts and Talks   · METR 6990 Coursework   Storm Chasing   · Wx Data (NCAR/RAP)   · SPC   · Great wx links page   · Storm Season 2003   · Storm Season 2002   About me   · Family pics   · Roadtrips   · My bio   Weather Briefing   · Briefing page Last updated: Fri 1 Aug 2003 4:45pm PDT Storm Chase Trip: 19 Apr 2003 Storm Chase Trip: April 19, 2003 Chase partners: Andy Taylor (driver), Dan Dawson, Jerry Brotzge, Bob Weinzapfel (driver), and Kevin Kloesel (driver) Here are a few of our digital pics taken while driving from Norman to Enid to Lamont to roughly Kildare.   We saw towering CU and CBs by 2:30 at the gas station in Hennessey.   We saw pronounced low-level rotation on a back road in far north central Garfield County (not pictured though).   We saw low- and mid-level rotation along Oklahoma Hwy 11 in central Grant county and western Kay county.   We found ourselves between two southern storms in a back-building line and decided to head south again.   Around 6:29 PM CDT, while driving south, we were able to witness a brief (30 sec) rope funnel cloud - and in fact we were so close (~200 yds away and kinda underneath it) we got to gaze into the center of its vortex tube circulation :)   We chased it into eastern Kay county when the terrain got poor, and then called off the chase around 7:30 PM CDT.   Left OUN around 1:30 p.m. arrived home 10:30 p.m. Towering cumulonimbus Wall cloud and mid-level curvature More low-level rotation (what eventually became our funnel cloud) Low-level rotation now co-located w/mid level rotation The mesocyclone of our storm to the north in S Central KS The beginnings of our rope funnel Our rope-looking funnel cloud (aligned from the top center of the image down and left) The rope funnel 30 seconds later The wall cloud and storm 10 minutes later, after we found a good spot to pull off The storm as we're letting it pass us by into the wild blue yonder ... You can email me with comments by clicking here: bsbarret@hotmail.com.   I'm reluctant to put out my OU email account for every web crawler to steal and junk it up.   However, if you would like to contact me at my OU email, look me up at http://search.ou.edu. Thanks! Page updated 4-20-03 email the author at bsbarret@hotmail.com