Operation Day 6
VORTEX2 May 19th, 2009 at 10:39amOn Friday we intercepted a squall line northwest of Enid, OK. The weather was not conducive to individual super cells so we were not optimistic for tornado formation. The cells merged after initiation into a squall line that raced east-southeast. The radars deployed in dual Doppler baseline and waited over an hour for the squall line to pass. There were two cyclonic shear zones along the leading edge of the gust front that sparked some interest, however, nothing became of those two shear zones. The passage of the squall line was mainly uneventful, only very small hail was reported and surface winds were light. The shelf cloud provided an impressive visual experience as it passed. We now have the most studied squall line ever.












May 19th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
I like the fact that in one of the pictures you were using Weather Undergrounds radar graphics and not the NWS!
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 am
Awesome cloud pics!