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DAY 1/SUNDAY, 5/15 UPDATE… 

Saturday, the workforce and I drove from Starkville, MS, to Forth Smith, Arkansas to arrange for Sunday’s potential extreme climate threat in elements of Oklahoma and Missouri. It appeared like there could be two zones of extreme climate – one in southwestern Missouri close to Joplin and one other in japanese Oklahoma.

Sunday morning, we headed towards southwest Missouri, Joplin particularly, as storms in japanese Kansas have been surging southeast. It turned obvious these storms have been going to proceed pushing into Arkansas, so we determined to get on I-44 and head southwest into Oklahoma round noon. This was prematurely of potential storm growth later within the day. Earlier than we left, we captured a picturesque shelf cloud from storms approaching Joplin from the northwest.

As soon as into Oklahoma, the air was extraordinarily unstable forward of a conectively-enforced outflow boundary sinking south to southwest throughout japanese Oklahoma. This function acted as a mini “chilly entrance” and initiated storms shortly after 4p. We positioned ourselves south of the storm to get the very best view, and that is pictured beneath.

Resulting from weak low stage wind shear, no twister growth occurred. Nevertheless, there have been reviews of very massive hail and damaging wind gusts. Fortunately, we incurred no injury from hail or wind in our location close to Calvin, OK.

Monday will likely be a journey day into Kansas to place for potential storms Tuesday. Keep tuned for extra!