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May 19, 2010 Leedey/Dover, OK

By Derek Deroche, May 21, 2010 10:56 am

Began the day in Norman with a short drive to set up in Clinton, OK. Met up with Scott Blair and Amos Magliocco and we targeted a storm that developed along the outflow boundary near Leedey, OK. As we approached the storm on SR 34, a laminar funnel began to develop beneath a clean, rain-free base.  The funnel tightened and a tornado soon developed, persisting for about 5 minutes with debris being briefly observed at one point. Scott and I moved east to observe the new meso but soon had to move north due to poor road options through the Canadian river valley. After a 10 minute delay due to an overturned semi, we proceeded north then east to Taloga. We eventually made it south again via Hwy 270 to Oakwood where we observed very low cloud bases and briefly wrapping rain curtains to out east. We moved east to Eagle City through poor dirt roads, nearly getting stuck several times. After a few failed attempts to stay ahead of the storm, we decided to reposition well ahead of it, taking Hwy 33 and 81 to Dover. There we observed a cone, rain-wrapped tornado a few miles west of Dover. This tornado was persisted for several minutes with multiple vortices, before lifting and becoming obscured by rain. We then headed east to Cresent then south on Hwy 74 to Cimarron City. Near the intersection of Hwys 73 and 33, we observed a well-defined funnel that persisted for several minutes but didn’t touchdown. We moved east to Guthrie, encountering traffic congestion through the town. After witnessing a few more attempts at more defined low level organization, we called it a day and headed into Edmond for dinner.

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