Day 4 in Review

This morning the SWIFT students started off the day with teaching middle school students in Hominy, OK. They had the opportunity for STEM outreach and interaction with the students who were eager to learn. A special thanks to Debbie Bennett and Professor Moran for helping this process go smoothly with great success. Both middle school students and USNA students learned a lot.
After a morning full of teaching, we enjoyed lunch at Pioneer Women Mercantile which was a very popular, busy and authentic restaurant in the area. Our next moves were completely focused on storm chasing. The first stop was west of Winfield where we watched several towers build then, unfortunately, collapse on themselves. Our second stop was south of Oxford where we observed an updraft, however, saw an unhealthy "see through" area. We decided to continue further northward to Wichita because of the 35 knots of bulk shear and a potential chance of a supercell. Heading north may have been an unfortunate move because the radar south of us had displayed a V-notch and hook-shaped structure. Tornadoes did form and the picture included of it was not taken by us. Although we had missed this structure, we ended with a lightning show on the border of Kansas and Oklahoma with several severe storm features!