Tuesday 31st May 2022 - Oklahoma (Enhanced Risk)

We started today in Blackwell (OK) and todays set up would feature a surface boundary which was stationery across Oklahoma and a Triple Point near Woodward. The models were showing 2 main areas of Interest, one north of I40 into Southern Kansas and the other along and near the Childress area running along the Red River, as it turned out we did both risks in the end starting with the I40 risk then dropping down to end the day just north of the Red River. After a quick lunch in Clinton towers started exploding around 3pm near and North of Arapahoe and we picked a nice vantage point to watch mainly Multi Cell storms try to get their act together, one storm did boss the action and turned supercellular, the structure was beautiful west of Arapahoe.This Storm tried several times to put down a Tornado with nice inflow and numerous rotating funnel clouds.Around 6pm this area grew upscale and the front started to undercut so we had to move 60 miles south to another Supercell heading into SW Oklahoma, the chase was still well and truly on and we headed down to Mountain Park to a favourite viewpoint to watch the Storm roll in at Sunset. We were treated to a spectacular Anvil Lightning display around sunset.The day was still not over with the LLJ kicking in storms were now starting to rotate much harder as hodographs elongated in the early evening. One such storm to our South West gained a Tornado warning and we watched a few power flashes and a Tornado touch down. Success on day 1 of Tour 3.Lightning continued to rain down as we headed east to Lawton for the night, an amazing chase day and verified Tornado near Frederick (Ok)