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May 10 - Wakita, Oklahoma |
- Tornado Outbreak
- An epic day certainly unfolded today with numerous, fast moving
supercell storms that produced many damaging tornadoes, mainly
across Oklahoma.
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- The storm we targeted matured near
the town of Cherokee where we saw baseball and softball sized
hailstones littering the ground. Many home & car windows
in town were smashed out, but luckily we didn't get into any
of it as it was coming down. Near the town of Wakita (which was
the town featured in the movie "Twister") we caught
up with the main updraft of the storm which was dramatically
rotating. We saw it produce at least 2 brief multi-vortex tornadoes
from very close range.
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- We passed through the damage path a
couple of times but because these storms were moving so fast,
we had a hard time keeping up and when we finally caught up with
it again on Interstate 35, it had produced another tornado that
caused damage and flipped several trucks on the highway.
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- We continued on and attempted to intercept
a few more storms, but they were either racing off too fast or
were weakening.
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- One storm to our south was a prolific
tornado producer and cause a great deal of damage in our home
base city of Norman, then went on to cause more damage in areas
along interstate 40, all the way into Arkansas.
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- Unfortunately, there have also been
fatalities, at least 5 as of this writing. I'll update this blog
with more information later. I'm going to rest now after this
exhausting day.
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