Here is a brief summary of the chase on Monday March 8th. Conditions had been questionable for the days leading up to the event. However with the long winters lull getting to us my buddy Matt and I decided to head out. We both wanted to get out and make sure all the equipment was working properly. As he now has live streaming setup on his computer and in his truck.
The chase started in Lawton, Oklahoma and headed west on highway 62 towards our target area Altus, Ok. The question was if the atmosphere could recover fast enough after the late morning and early afternoon strong line of showers and t’storms. Matt and I headed west at around 2:30pm as cloudy skies and light rain continued to fall. However once we got about 30 miles west of Lawton skies began to clear and the sun came out giving us hope. Once arriving in Altus we could see a nice cu field starting to get agitated along the dry line. Radar was also starting to verify that the storms were slowly starting to break out and head northeast. You’ll see a couple pictures in the slide show below of what becomes the Hammon supercell. We noticed the nice storm going up be also didn’t want to chase that further away from home in a questionable atmosphere. Especially when there was a flanking line of cu to the south that was moving towards a warming environment with lots of sunshine. Believe if I had known I would have been fine getting home at midnight and sleeping a couple hours before work.
Well those couple of storms jetted north and eventually produced some severe weather reports with that well photographed tornado in Hammon. Which is about 2 hrs north of Altus and about 3 ½ hrs from Lawton if that is any consolation to our decision. Overall we had a blast and it was good to just drive around looking for storms and enjoying good company. I guess its good say I got my first bust out of the way early. =)
CHASE #1 BUST
Miles 183 No Hail, No Wind over 50, No Tornadoes.
Only some CG and moderate rain shower
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