4-19-03 Tulsa, OK-Coffeyville, KS Chase

Chase log and photos by Melanie Metz and Peggy Willenberg

Melanie filming Nebraska bust on 4-18

Peggy monitoring NE bust

Towering Cu, excitement of the day along warm front in NE KS (4-18)

4-19-03 Entering PDS tornado watch box in NE OK

Tornado warned cell just South of Tulsa, OK

Entering Glenpool just south of Tulsa, reports of tornado on the ground but we never saw one

Shallow rainbow near Glenpool

Torando warning, someone decided to take shelter under overpass....hmmmmm

Lowering in Glenpool

Lowering/ wall cloud

Blake Naftel silhouette, always behind the camera!

Tornado warned cell just NE of Bartlesville, OK (initiated near Ponca City), damage reported in nearby town

Cell explodes directly overhead, just SW of Coffeyville, KS

Developing base

Lowering base

Clear slot noticed, cell develops meso on radar

Wall cloud develops

Possible funnel near South Coffeyville, OK

Possible funnel... shortly dissipates

Cell base as we follow it NE

Wall cloud on cell which maintains meso and later becomes tornado warned

Wall cloud

New updraft explodes on the Southern flank

Updraft

Base of new updraft near Coffeyville, KS

Lowering in the dark, cell is now tornado warned near Altamont, KS

View of base illuminated by lightning

Wall cloud? Reports were called in at this time of a rotating wall cloud, hard for us to confirm in the dark!

Another view of the base just East of Strauss, KS

Updraft illuminated by lightning, time for dinner in Pittsburg,KS!