October 29, 1999

Date: 10/29/99
Partners: Car 1: Myself(driver), Keith Brown and Kevin Scharfenberg. Car 2: Stacie Bender(driver), Tim Love and April Strout
Miles: 227.2
Summary: This was a chance to see weather for the first time since September 10th, se we went up into a severe thnderstorm near Okeene, Oklahoma
The Chase: We left Norman at 4:20PM to go see a squall line that was forming in NW Oklahoma. We ended up going west on I-40 to the second Geary/Watonga exit. Then we went north to Watonga, east towards Dover, and then north again. We stopped about 3 miles west of Hennessey to watch the storm come towards us. We got outflowed by it, and it had formed a nice shelf cloud by this point. Then we got dinner in Watonga and headed home. I got back to my apartment at 9:47PM. The winds near Hennessey were about 20 knots with gusts near 30 knots. When that line hit Norman at near midnight there were gusts of about 40-50 knots, or from 45-60 mph. There also were some gusts over 80 mph causing damage about 4 miles noth of my apartment.

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