Welcome to OklahomaWx.com

Every year Oklahoma experiences some of natures worst weather. Springtime brings a variety of severe weather to Oklahoma. From severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds Oklahoma sees it all.

Some of the other types of weather that affect Oklahoma are flooding rains, ice storms in the winter, and wildfires during the dry season and high winds. We even had a tropical storm in 2007!

This site is still a work in progress. My goals with this site are to post pictures, blogs, storm chase logs, and news of weather events around Oklahoma. I will be adding information about past events such as the May 8th 2003 Moore tornado that affected me.

 2008-02-09 Two Tornadoes Touchdown in the Oklahoma City Metro Area

Two tornadoes touchdown in the Oklahoma City Metro area on May 7th 2008 during rush hour. I was going to chase this storm but being on the far south side during rush hour would not make this possible so I listened in on the scanner and radio for information on what was going on.

More about this event can be read here

 2008-02-27 New Host.

After having some major issues with our hosting company we have switched to a new provider.

Hopefully everything will run a lot smoother now.

 2008-05-01 Central Oklahoma

May 1st Central Oklahoma Tornado Warned Supercell

This was a nice backyard chase. Around 4 PM a cirrus deck drifted overhead and killed off the developing CU so I figured this day was a bust. I drove home without setting up my truck since it looked like nothing was going to happen. On the way home I noticed the cirrus deck was moving out and some more CU were developing. Thinking that the dryline was retreating I gave it little thought (found out later that the dryline actually stalled just in time for development). 30 Minutes after I got home I went out to get the mail and noticed towers going up pretty much above my house. I watched for a while and when I noticed the towers start to explode at an insane rate I finally got the gear in the truck and headed off, of course with little gas but I had enough to get me to the action area.

I pulled off of I-240 in Midwest City and was right under the meso. It had some crazy motion and good rotation from time to time. I really thought it was going to drop a tube on Midwest City but thank goodness that it didn't. I followed it up Anderson Road and stopped to watch some more intense rotation right around the area that damage would be reported later. I fell behind on the storm when I finally had to stop for gas in Jones. When I got back on the road I ended up catching up a bit, good enough to see the base. It started to look elevated and not as good so I called off the chase due to the way it looked and it was getting dark. That point I found myself all the way in Wellston and realized I had over an hour drive back home, the funny thing about that was when I was watching the storm I really had no idea I ended up that far.

 2008-03-15 Oklahoma City

Chase Truck

I finally got around to installing the new gear into the chase truck. Check out the link to the photo gallery to check out pictures of the install and equipment.