Northern Oklahoma squall line and shelf cloud

Chase Recap:

I didn’t have very high expectations, but a day after my birthday chase and possibility of supercells was enough to get me to leave work early and head up to Northern Oklahoma.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to cut out of work early enough to get to the storms in Kansas when they formed, and I missed the tornado warnings and funnel cloud reported east of Pratt, KS. We had to settle for the squall line and shelf cloud as it entered Oklahoma north of Alva. We stayed ahead of the storms as they weren’t moving very fast. We went through Alfalfa and Grant Counties before dropping south to Enid where we ended the night at Buffalo Wild Wings.

The lightning show was pretty spectacular our whole drive home. Constant flashing, but the cloud-to-ground strikes were not very prevalent. All in all a good July chase. It sure beats 110 degrees and sunny.