Yesterday offered an interesting evening of chasing storms! The dry line (colder, dry air) moved into Oklahoma in the afternoon and began producing super cell thunderstorms as the air collided with the warm, moist air in the early evening as it diagonally crossed the state. In this shot, you can see the band of clouds as it blocked out the sun, as well as two developing thunderstorms-one close to the center of the panorama and the other, more mature thunderstorm to the right of the picture. The lesser developed storm melded into the more mature storm, which produced a lowering wall cloud that had several of the weather stations concerned. This prominent band of clouds is the warm, moist air feeding into the thunderstorm, which then forces the moisture upward. This upward, spiraling air and moisture eventually cools and condenses the the water vapor into water droplets (rain) and into hail once it reaches the upper atmosphere. Once night came, this storm produced an amazing lightning show with an almost constant amount of lightning flashes.


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