The storms started going about 19z today in Oklahoma and Kansas. Oklahoma of course had the discrete supercell structure to their storms. The storm that started just south of Woodward got up by and probably into the warm front and went tornadic off and on for quite some time.
The LMN 18z sounding had over 700 SRH, but the CAPE was not as impressive while the OUN sounding had modest tornadic SRH of 280 but better CAPE. No wonder three separate storms already spawned tornadoes in between OUN and LMN. Another tornadic storm just slid south of Norman.
This has been a very active last month especially the last couple of weeks for severe weather. Transitioning ENSO episodes have shown to yield good severe weather seasons. This has proved to be no exception. A pretty classic triple point day in Oklahoma with discrete supercells giving way to an MCS overnight into eastern Oklahoma moving eastward.
Vortex 2 has made up for a lackluster 2009 with a pretty informative 2010. Let's hope they don't botch the research and come out with something promising in the next couple of years.
Stay Safe
Jim Thorpe
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