11/05/08 NOW: OK, KS, NE, SD

[Verne Carlson]

Looks like a cell starting to initiate along I-35 near Perry, OK. 45dbz. starting a now thread. Good luck to everyone out chasing!

Edit: Caddo county in OK as well. Both exploding. 55dbz on latest scan.

[Heidi Farrar]

Another cell just north of Fort Cobb is getting its act together too; already a hail icon with that one. - Tornado watch issued for central OK/southeast KS.

[Chip Redmond]

With the cap finally going and dew points in the low 60s things are going to quickly get going. Parts of Cadda, Canadian, Grady now under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Chip

[Jordan Hartley]

Healthy cells firing SW of OKC along the dryline:D storms this early this is great^^. Things are going to go boinkers when those winds start backing. I have a funny feeling this is going to get drawn out until right at dark then look out.

[Chris Karstens]

With so many streamers out its kind of hard keeping track of everyone... if you're interested, I wrote a placefile script that tags severe studios screenshots to the spotternetwork icon of the people streaming...

http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/chase/placefiles/severe_studios_cams.php

Pretty neat watching James Nimrod at the moment...

Enjoy!

Chris

[Heidi Farrar]

Storms are popping in Nebraska and northern Kansas right now, too; these look like they're going to turn into a squall line pretty quick.

[Verne Carlson]

El Reno cell starting to show broad rotation and hook. Path will take it over Guthrie soon.

[Chip Redmond]

According to radar the storm just north now of OK city is starting to show some rotation. Place to be appears to be around Edmond, OK.

Chip

[Jeff Richardson]

Just took a quick look at radar and warnings from Norman and Tulsa. Warned storms are moving very fast...45-55 mph...impossible to keep up with unless a chaser is stationary and doing "one shot" data gathering as the storm passes overhead. Also seeing just a hint of linear structure from near Lawton to northeast of Ponca City which makes me wonder if the southern storms will become a squall line earlier than forecast. Since I'm sitting in part of the "bulls eye" I'd go out for a view but will have to do a "computer chase" on this one due to family obligations. Good luck to all who are out today!

[Darren Addy]

Maybe wishcasting here, since we're still north of Wichita, but the DDC Shortfuse Composite is showing some good moisture pooling SW of Wichita right now. If something good pops in the vicinity, it would be moving into a pretty good CAPE environment around sundown (and I35/I335 would be nicely located for keeping close to the NNE moving action).

[jeremy wilson]

Storms are going up well south of current watch box into west central Texas. Southern Oklahoma and North central Texas could get rocked later tonight. Wouldn't be suprised to see a few reports along the I-35 corridor further south this evening. Gonna be a dangerous night.

[Jason Caster]

Cell east of Ark City has gone Tor Warned.
Wall cloud has been reported.

Good luck to all who are out chasing, looks like a few are in prime location on spotter network.

[Kiel Ortega]

NW Norman just got munched by a storm with strong winds (est 60+) and golf balls

[Skip Talbot]

Looks like the cells in northern OK and southern KS have gone linear and are bowing out. Although the low level shear is ramping up, the cape is diminishing and the cap filling back in. The southern OK and TX cells are still discrete and in a favorable environment though.

[Ryan McGinnis]

Just west of the storm near Fall River,KS. Light's gone and the thing seems to be falling apart. At sunset, the storm did put on a brief mammatus display, which was quite a nice sight. There's a nicer storm coming up from the southwest, but unless this system really cranks up in the nocturnal, it seems like a pretty tame day for a mod risk. Can't complain for November, of course.

[Matthew E. Engelbrecht]

From what I have seen today on radar the trend seems to be that the supercell storms have had occasionally great organization and structure, but weak low-level storm relative winds kept many of them from being tornado producers. My observation has been that the mid-level mesocyclones have looked good at times, but the weaker low level storm-relative winds might be keeping most of them from extending down to the cloud base and the surface to produce tornadoes.