About last night

Yesterday evening we intercepted a mini-supercell that transposed into a line when it got to us. We set up our cameras in Rentiesville Ok, near the intersection of Hwy 69 and 40 (same road that goes through NC). Going by information given to us by the storm prediction center we were located dead center in the high-risk area for potential supercell development. We probably changed our position 5 times before deciding on a location as the storm approached. Unfortunately the storm’s slow movement put the center on top of us just after dusk. However, the lightning was incredible with designs similar to a spider web engulfing the entire sky. This lightning allowed for us to see the immense cloud structures and a possible wall cloud. It is a pretty frightening experience to be in a supercell after dark and having to rely on the lightning to show what’s coming your way. It was very unsettling to see clouds dropping down low in every flash of the lightning. In all we received pea size hail for about 10-15 minutes, severe lightning, rain (probably the strongest I have ever seen), and strong to damaging winds. The storm did weaken and we missed out on larger size hail that was reported west of us.

Currently we are driving back to Texas to intercept a dryline forming in central Texas. There is some severe weather that is pushing through eastern Texas at this time, but our lack of sleep the past few days took a toll on us and we missed out on early morning severe weather in Texas. We are hoping that as this storm pushes through clearing will allow for daytime heating increasing instability once again and initiate supercell development. We will be better with completing our next update tonight as we will have a more dependable internet connection and hopefully some pictures to show as well.