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May 19, 2012 Oklahoma Supercell

Late spring thunderstorm in western Oklahoma provided some incredible visual storm structure and cloud formations.
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4:33pm | 2 mi NW of Mooreland, OK<br /> <br /> While watching storms fire...we were visited by this guy. Doesn't he look related to one of these two?
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4:33pm | 2 mi NW of Mooreland, OK

While watching storms fire...we were visited by this guy. Doesn't he look related to one of these two?

  • 4:33pm | 2 mi NW of Mooreland, OK<br /> <br /> While watching storms fire...we were visited by this guy. Doesn't he look related to one of these two?
  • 4:35pm | 2 mi NW of Mooreland, OK<br /> <br /> Survey says: yup, definitely related to both of them...
  • 4:59 pm | 3 mi NW of Mutual, OK<br /> <br /> Looking southwest at our developing storm.
  • 5:06 pm | 3 mi NW of Mutual, OK<br /> <br /> Lot of moo's.
  • 5:24 pm | 3 mi NW of Mutual, OK<br /> <br /> Storm starting to mature with a developing mesocyclone.
  • 5:58 pm | 10 mi east of Camargo, OK
  • 6:46 pm | Rural Dewey County, OK
  • 7:02 pm | Rural Dewey County, OK<br /> <br /> The storm begins to strengthen and take its menacing shape.
  • 7:10 pm | Rural Dewey County, OK<br /> <br /> Doppler on wheels flying past us, getting ahead of this beast.
  • 7:12 pm | Rural Dewey County, OK<br /> <br /> Wheat stalk point-of-view of this developing mothership.
  • 7:27 pm | 5 mi NW of Custer City, OK<br /> <br /> Storm now shaped as a...wedding cake?
  • 8:10 pm | 6 mi NW of Arapaho, OK<br /> <br /> Finally, a full blown mothership supercell!
  • 8:10 pm | 6 mi NW of Arapaho, OK<br /> <br /> Couldn't ask for better cloud sculpture.
  • 8:12 pm | 6 mi NW of Arapaho, OK<br /> <br /> Above and behind us to the east was a spectacular mammatus display.
  • 8:28 pm : 2 mi S of Clinton, OK<br /> <br /> As the sun sets fire to the storm base, we call it a day after a great chase. (accidental rhyme)
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