February 17, 2000

Date: 12/2/99
Partners: This will look funny... Car 1: Danny Cheresnick(driver), Melinda Brunner, Ilene Cooper and Heather Gaynor. Car 2: Keith Brown, April Strout and Mark Jaeger(gugals). Car 3: Brad Illston, Lauren Neimann and Tom Wachs. And for parts of the chase: Car 4: Don Giuliano, Maureen Breitbach and Dan Harding. Car 5: Kris Booker and Karen Trammell. Car 6: Kelly Sugden and Josh Draper Car 7: Tina Spencer and Patrick Dougan. I think that is everyone.
Miles: 302.4miles
Summary: Moderate risk day where nothing happened at all in Oklahoma.
The Chase: This is my rendition of that day. Here is Keith's log from this day. The highlight was watching Kelly get his car stuck in the mud on the side of Highway 54. I got to try out my new video camera on that, and I also got to use the night shot feature on that. It was very funny. The other highlight was that at one point I was in the lead of a 7 car caravan. I felt really special then, almost like I really knew what was going on.

Actually, the reasons that nothing happened were a cap stronger than anyone had predicted, the upper system went farther north than expected, there was not as much convergence as expected along the dryline and the UVV (Upward Verical Velocities) were not as strong as expected. All that adds up to a nice bust.

Here is a little about where we went that day. We left Sarkey's (the metr building) at 2:05 PM and went west on Highway 9 to Chickasha. From there we weent south on I-44 through Lawton and got to the gas station and McDonald's just north of the Walters exit at 3:50. At about 5:00 the warm fornt passed us. We left at 5:11 to head back to Lawton and then to head west on Highway 62 towards Altus. We figured that would take us closer to the low and put us in a little better environment to maybe see a storm. We went north on highway 115, missed where it forked off and ended up on highway 49 driving through the wildlife refuge. A really bad road if there had been storms going on. That took us to 54 and we took it north to Weatherford. We got into Weatherford at 8:00. There we made another phone call and listened to more data, and for all intensive purposes gave up. 8:57 we left the KFC/Taco Bell in Weatherford. At 9:11 our group spotted a few CG's way up north. At 9:48 we left the Best Western hotel in El Reno where we had stopped to look at the radar. There was a little bit of drizzle out west, and storm to severe storms up near the OK/KS border, but they were moving NE at about 60 mph, so we went back to Norman. I arrived back in the Energy Center parking lot at 10:46 PM.

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