Storm Driven

Updates are way behind but coming… Grandbabies are more time consuming than thought and loving loving it!!!

Some flooding around north Tulsa and some distant lightning.

It was Friday night, why not stay out past midnight watching a storm….

Another after work drive to the border up north, uneventfull again but still enjoyable.

I headed out north of Tulsa during the early evening of June 2nd just to see anything,

I left Tulsa shortly after 4PM and went for a northern target in Kansas. As I passed through Howard, Kansas on hwy 99 , I realized it was not worth going any farther and I turned back south to catch the storms headed for the Oklahoma border from the I-35 area. I set up north of Maple City, KS. and waited for what now was a squall line to move in.

I went back up to hwy 166 and traveled east just ahead of the line until I headed south at Caney, KS. then it was a car wash the rest of the way home.

It’s frustrating when plans don’t work out. Plans to leave Tulsa between 3 and 4 PM to head out west , turned into not being able to leave until after 5PM. At that point I just went home after work and opened up the radar and later watched what I had missed and still could have made it. Shortly after 7PM I decided to load up and head north and catch the cells moving out of Kansas into Bartlesville, OK. I hoped to make it to a ridge on hwy 123 west of B’ville but I had dragged my feet to long and decided I could make it there in time to get the shots I wanted. I ended up north of B’ville on some county roads I remembered from last year. It gives a little bit of view but not a full flat view but it would have to do. Below are the shots taken around 8:30 of the (radar indicated)tornado warned storm using a 10mm lens.

I then went east to hwy 169 and drove back south to Tulsa trying to catch a few lightning bolts..

I ended up at 91st and Garnett to watch the last stubborn cell move out of the area..

Towards the end I missed a close lightning strike that hit the telephone pole about 50 feet to my left, that left the gas station I was parked at in the dark.

I still wish I had made it out west but the night was still salvaged a little…

Not leaving the soccer tournament in Norman until after 1pm ended up putting me at Vici to meet the tornado warned cell, that many got tornado pics from earlier. I didn’t get to see a tornado but I still enjoyed a few storms Sunday in NW Oklahoma.

I even got to try out my new Canon HD camcorder (still need to learn all the settings )

These are mostly of the storm in the Alva area, viewed from the south.