April 24, 2006

Targeted area north of Oklahoma City for mid afternoon. Got just through Okc before convection began firing along a outflow boundary. Storms started to become severe and look impressive on radar so decided to go ahead and get on them (instead of waiting on dryline storms to fire later). Headed north on I-35 and caught up to a storm near Perry. Storm was pretty and there were times were it seemed to be gearing up but they were only moments.

As i was making my way eastward out of Perry i had to wait for a train to pass and then a hundred yards up the road another train. I guess it took about 15 minutes (it seemed soooo much longer) to get through. During this time the storm was trying to get its act together. Garrett Lewis called to inform me that the storm now had decent rotation. The storm was definately trying to tornado. Unfortunately, some weak storms from the south raced up and merged into the storm. This disrupted it sufficiently to kill the tornado threat. A little bit later some more crap came up and i decided to head south to try and intercept a storm near Stillwater. I managed to get around the backside of the storm near Yale. From this point all the way into Tulsa we were on the back trying to get through the hook but there was some pretty big hail in there so once we got hail we had to stop. In Sand Springs we finally got through the hook but by that point the storm had weakened. It still had some nice structure. We also saw baseball size hail still remaining on the sides of the road in Tulsa.

April 29, 2006

Had to work all day. After a lot of rain the previous night the Mulberry River had risen to a level not seen since January 2005.

Some storms north of Ozark, AR

Waterfall along the Pig Trail

April 30, 2006

Some strong storm moved down from Tulsa and i intercepted them at Mountainburg, AR. Below is the shelf cloud.

The winds were only about 35mph and hail mostly pea with some dime.

May 3-4, 2006

Storms first developed late on the 3rd. A storm developed north of Clarksville, AR. Below is picture of lighting from storm, lightning bug, and star trails.

A few hours later storms developed north of Ozark, AR producing a nice lightning display.

Several more inches of still much needed rains got the streams up even higher.