Marlow, Oklahoma Tornado

Marlow, Oklahoma

Date: May 8, 2016
Location: Marlow, OK
Description:
I found myself witnessing the Marlow, OK tornado after starting the day on a left split from that same storm. The first storm we were on was near Mountain View in Western Oklahoma. It provided pretty structure and hail. We measured hail over 2 inches in diameter in the city of Mountain View. After the left split passed, we headed to the right split of that storm. It was slowly churning across Comanche and Stephens county, dropping large amounts of water.

The hook slice on Highway 7 from that storm was brutal. Extremely high precipitation supercell with little visibility. Once we punched through the hook it put us right in a perfectly place to see the tornado.

Not a bad chase. Casual drive a couple hours from my house. Saw some structure and a tornado, then came home and had a steak.

Ben Holcomb is a Storm Chaser and IT Professional (in that order) that lives in Norman, Oklahoma. Ben works for a managed service provider with clients mostly based in the financial sector as a Linux Engineer. He has seen approximately 200 tornadoes since 2007 and has appeared on most national television networks. Ben has been to all 50 states and 19 countries and loves to travel. He has also installed weather forecast and display systems in multiple foreign countries. Ben lives with his cat Nacho.