April 23, 2022 Supercells

Southwest Oklahoma

The 500 mb shortwave trough from the previous day's chase had lifted north, and the cold front had advanced a bit into the plains, so the chase today was a bit farther east. Typically, I am not as much a fan of these days as I am of chase days on the higher plains, but there was a shot at some decent, rotating storms across southwestern Oklahoma as the front was advancing a little more slowly there. The storms had chased us up to Dodge City the previous evening, so we needed to stairstep south and a bit east to reach the target area. We drove through Woodward, Oklahoma and had lunch at Braum's. From there, we were starting for a target in north central Oklahoma but decided upon southwestern Oklahoma instead. We headed toward Lawton for initiation just south of the Wichita Mountains.

The SPC 1630 Day 1 Outlook.

The SPC 1630 Day 1 Tornado Outlook.

A broking line of storms developed in our target area and slowly strengthened into supercell storms. We stairstepped east and a bit south as darkness approached. We continued to stay with these storms after sunset and captured some nice lightning and nighttime supercell structure.

First storm of the day just south of Fort Cobb.

Guests enjoy the storm to our west near Lawton.

The storm has a little bit of supercellular structure.

Lightning on supercell southwest of Lawton.

Lightning on a third storm just west of I-44 and north of Wichita Falls.

A twisting piece of scud develops underneath the storm.

The route we traveled.

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