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On May 23, 2002round 5:30 I left Norfolk, VA and made my way to Tulsa, Ok getting in around 11:30pm so the first night I was able to get a good night rest knowing that the next few days were going to be some late night as they away end up being |
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On May 24,
2002 a
Our small team which was Jess Bass who chases with me here in Norfolk and
his girlfriend Crystal and my wife Amy and myself got start at the
airport where we pick up a nice 2002 car to chase with. The team was already
out in the TX panhandle waiting where a Moderate Risk for severe weather had
been issued. Around 5pm I got a hold of the team who were moving in front of
a line of storms and were heading east on 287 towards Vernon TX. The team
decided to meet in Frederick OK which was about 20 miles north of
Vernon TX. With the storms getting closer and looking threading I put
the gas down and tried to make some time up but found out the TX cops do not
like it when you are going 31 over the speed limit. But my luck was
looking good and he only gave me some good words of encouragement and that
was SLOW DOWN.. We meet the group at a gas station and most of us took
the liberty to say the storms would not produce a tornado today and some
headed back east but the others stuck it out and went back down to Vernon
where we encountered a Supercell which produced a multi vortex tornado
for about 10 to 20 seconds. And a fireworks display of Mammatus clouds
with diamond blue lightning Here
are some of the photos and video from that day.
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