23 April 2014 / Supercell and lightning

Looking northwest from 6.1 miles north of Mountain Park, OK (8:12 pm CDT)

Looking northwest from 6.1 miles north of Mountain Park, OK (8:12 pm CDT)

The target area for us this day was a fairly small one – over the extreme Southeast Texas Panhandle and far Southwest Oklahoma.  Low level moisture return wasn’t that impressive, but it still appeared that storms would move off the dryline during the late afternoon hours.  Given the degree of instability and deep layer shear, some supercell structure was expected.

Our first stop was in Shamrock, Texas where we monitored radar for a short time, observing storms that were forming to our west and south.  We decided to target a storm that was north of Memphis, Texas that was rapidly intensifying.  About midway between Shamrock and Wellington, the storm split and we watched the impressive left mover peel away from the main storm.
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We stopped about a mile north of Wellington and watched the storm to our west and southwest take on supercell characteristics.  For a brief time, there was a rotating wall cloud to our west southwest.  It didn’t take long before a surge of outflow undercut this feature and blasted us with 50 mph winds and blowing dirt.  This was not a surprise given the very high temperature/dewpoint spreads and high base of the storm.

We moved to Highway 30 in Western Oklahoma and shot a few more images of the storm while it still looked supercellular.  Its appearance looked more and more pitiful as we drove east and northeast through Reed and Brinkman.

Since it appeared that there would be little in the way of a tornado threat, and little in the way of decent structure with the storms in our immediate area, we began searching for a place to shoot lightning.  We stopped near Lone Wolf and captured a few lightning images, then moved to just east of Tom Steed Reservoir.  The lightning picked up and the setting sun helped frame some wonderful images at this location.