Our target for today was the booming city of Tonkawa, OK. We set up shop in a neighborhood park and watched the convection bubble up as we waited for something worth chasing.

Storms were popping up on the dryline to the west, and around 3pm we ended up quickly moving southwest through Enid to Lahoma to catch one of the storms. We had to punch through some rain and a little pea-sized hail, but once we did we were greeted with a nice wall cloud.

After we got a good look at the wall cloud we went back east to stay ahead of the storm, but ended up in a swath of nickel- to quarter-sized hail and had to pull the car up under an over-hanging roof of a random building. When there was a short break in hail we escaped to the south and enjoyed the view from afar.

We allowed the storm to slowly catch up to us and when it did it had a decent velocity couplet. You can see a lowering in the distance.

It was moving almost due east and we had an east road that allowed us to keep an eye on it. We would pull over and watch until the rain/hail caught up, then move farther east. You can see the precipitation erase our view before we moved forward:

We followed the storm until it lost its rotation. It still gave us a pretty view:

We had another enjoyable chase, and also got our first glance at the TIV on the trip: