6 April 2019 – Central Oklahoma Non-Severe

A rather uneventful chase that resulted in quite a few miles making a big loop to the southwest, northwest and northeast of Okarche.  Several storms formed in an area of weak instability and modest low level shear.

My first attention was with storms that formed in Caddo County, but these struggled most of their life before weakening during the late afternoon.  A couple of storms showed a bit more life in Blaine County and I worked my way up through Watonga and Hitchcock observing these.  While they were able to maintain strength longer than most, there was very little structure of interest.

By late afternoon, storms started forming near I-35 from the Kansas border southward to just north of the OKC metro.  These were the strongest of the day but once again struggled to reach severe levels.  I stopped once to observe a storm near Perry that had a lowering on the flanking line, but little in the way of motion:

Near Guthrie, I put W.O.D. in the air to get a view of the low-topped convection with the Cimarron River in the foreground: