Today I have the honor of sharing with you (a slightly late story) of our ninth day in the field.
After an eventful morning of a weather brief, debrief, and continental breakfast, the team was ready to get on the road and begin the transport from Nebraska to Oklahoma for some afternoon storms. After coming off of the high of a tornado sighting the previous day, it was unexpected that anything could even compare to the sight we had seen. However, little did we know that parked in a Holiday Inn parking lot a couple miles down the road was answer to our hopes of an eventful day.
(I encourage you to google Dominator 3 to find out more information)
After fangirling by some team members (Tyler I am looking at you), we found ourselves underway again and in hot pursuit of CI (convective initiation) in Northern OK. Our hopes were high, but unfortunately so were the LCLs, and our target area did not produce any particularly tornadic superstorms. In spite of that, we did observe some excellent structures of shelf clouds and met some fellow stormchasers along the way who turned out to be great with the camera. All in all, it was a great opportunity for us to observe some of the traditional features of a supercell we had studied in class and prepare ourselves for the chase this upcoming Monday.
--Cheers!
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