pics: Non-Severe OK Storms & Cold Front Passage

[SamSagnella]

Overall this was definitely not an event to write home about, but my chase partner Tommy Winning and I witnessed a couple of strong storms here in central Oklahoma during the evening hours of Tuesday, October 2. We sat north of Tuttle for a couple of hours, watching a fairly isolated storm go up before others formed just to the SW and they merged together. The first storm was the 'best,' with a rather pronounced series of inflow band-type features extending out to the east, and even some rapidly-rising scud under the RFB for a period of time.
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The shelf cloud from the first cluster forming and passing overhead. Winds observed with the passage of this feature never got above say 20kt, if that.


As soon as the precip had passed, we immediately noticed that the surface cold front itself was very visible about 10 miles to our north. As it got closer, the sun was near setting and the whole scene was very beautiful.


Looking back SE at the back edge of a storm W of OUN.


SW.


The cold front passing overhead.


Like I said, nothin too special, but some nice early fall photo ops from the great state of Oklahoma.

[dtrain44]

Gorgeous pictures. Doesn't have to be severe to be beautiful.