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Meteorologist George Flickinger's Storm Chasing Pictures and Southern Plains Forecasts |
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Meteorologist George Flickinger's Storm Chasing Pictures and Southern Plains Forecasts |
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My shirt proved more scary than the weather in Western Oklahoma on March 7. I also learned that using a gas station toilet in Enid, OK first requires snagging a key from a lady named Laverne who worked the register. |
March 7, 8, 12, 2006: Early season tornado damage |
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March 8 faired better...I actually saw rain...Here is a weakening storm near Mannford in western Creek county. The yellow arrow points out a small horizontal funnel aloft. This storm didn't produce a tornado though small hail briefly fell. |
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awwww, aren't we cute? My wife and I storm chasing...we look like we're posing in a mall photo kiosk. |
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Well, I still think it's a funny name. |
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We followed this developing cloud tower for an hour until it got away from us. Pictured here as a small storm, it's moving too fast for us to keep up. It produced tornadoes in MO about an hour later. |
The 2006 storm chase season debuted several weeks sooner than the previous year. As usual, March proves a difficult month to chase as storms move very quickly...Tornado damage pictures from far eastern Oklahoma are below.. |
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Looking south from near Iola, KS, we snap pictures of a beautiful flanking line at sunset. We drove eastward then southward to get a view from underneath. |
Another disadvantage of March chasing: sunset arrives too quickly...the two yellow arrows point out a double wall cloud feature. The blue arrow points to the hail core. Tornadoed occurred about 1 hour later. |
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Tornado damage from the previous tornado. The Tulsa NWS reports a 29 mile long damage track from an F3 rated tornado. This same supercell storm also produced tornado damage in Bentonville, AR. I took this photo 60 miles east of Tulsa. |
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No that's not my car...This was the view from my downtown Fort Smith, AR motel room on March 12...pretty impressive wreck for a 25mph speed zone.. |
More tornado damage. Trees, a chicken farm and a livestock holding area didn't do well. |
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One inch steel pipe twisted and driven into the ground. |
photos: George and Shyla Flickinger |
3/12 chase target: was to begin in Joplin, MO, then head northeast. Many tornadoes occurred as storms fired off of a warm front boundary. However we decided instead to chase NE OK and SE KS due to better visibilites and less traffic. Severe thunderstorms developed with a few tornadoes, but the tornadoes didn't occur until after sunset-- we needed a couple of more hours of daylight . |
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Tornado. Video grab is from my friend Jeff Smith. The tornado is crossing Highway 412 about 60 miles east of Tulsa. The next picture shows the result. |
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