Just west of Morris we pulled over and observed as the rapidly rotating wall cloud crossed the road only a mile or so behind us. 62 towards Morris with the meso coming right up behind us. We had to get back north to prevent ourselves getting cut off by the storm so we turned around again, going north, then east out of Okmulgee on Rt. This one had formed on the occluded meso of our new target storm and as we watched it to our northwest, the new meso to our southwest looked like it might tornado at any time as well, and soon produced a big funnel as the cone tornado faded off into the rain to our north. Tornado #2! about 30 minutes after the first one on the previous storm. Almost immediately upon making the turn south, the road went up a hill providing a good vantage point, and off to our west was a large cone tornado traveling through the woods. Madison Avenue, then East on E0970 road and finally turning south on Rt. We flew east in the rain and when we got to the outskirts of Okmulgee, we navigated around the perimeter of town by heading south on S. 56 and turned east, it became clear that we had to get east to Okmulgee in a hurry because the meso-cyclone of our new, tornado-warned target was going to get there at just about the same time we were! I did some quick calculations as the lead van had lost radar and decided we would make it with just a few minutes to spare. We broke off and turned back south to Rt. But we were running out of road and not closing the distance much, when it became clear that the next storm to our south behind this one was interfering with our target storm and also taking over the show. towards Nuyaka, with the wall cloud to our northwest. We blasted east then north up Dentonville Rd. We observed the tornado for about 5 minutes and then decided we needed to get east and north to keep up. Tornado! We drove right up to where it had crossed the road and there it was in the woods just north of us, a multi-vortex tornado slowly meandering away to the north, shifting from multi-vortex with tendrils skipping along the ground to a brief cone with more complete condensation. As we closed further, in the distance through the woods a dark mass crossed the road about 2 miles west of us. After the road made a dogleg south, we turned west again and were driving right towards the ground scraping wall cloud just to our west. As we blasted west past Nuyaka and got around the precipitation core, the big, beefy updraft became visible and it was clear we were going to meet it right on the road to our west.
56 into the woods around Okmulgee Lake in heavy rain as we skirted the front-flank core. We made it through Okmulgee and headed west on Rt. 75 intending to get to Beggs and wait for our target storm to come to us, but as we closed in the storm went tornado warned and there were tornado sightings so we sped down to Okmulgee with a west option that would allow us to drive right up to the updraft. Soon there were multiple severe storms to our south showing signs of rotation and we headed south to intercept. We stayed in Tulsa for about an hour and a half as storms began to initiate to our south and grow in intensity. 412 all the way to Tulsa where we stopped for lunch and waited for storms to initiate. Once there, analyzing the road flooding situation on the Oklahoma DPW website, we realized we had a problem: there was no way to get to Bartlesville from where we were as all of the roads were flooded out! Because of that we adjusted our target to Tulsa and continued south, and then east on Rt. We proceeded down south of Wichita on I-135, stopping for a rest break just north of the Oklahoma border. The models put the best sheer profiles in the area of Tulsa, OK so we started making our way down there from Salina, KS, intending to stop in Bartlesville, OK. Yet another day with big possibilities as moisture poured into Oklahoma with 70-degree dewpoints along a frontal boundary stretching from about Wichita Falls, TX to Joplin, MO and beyond.
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