After "chasing" to Lincoln and back for no storms the day prior, I wasn't terribly in the mood to go and chase this one. I talked myself into a south central KS target however and left at 8 a.m. I arrived on the border around 2 and storms were already firing southwest of Oklahoma City, in a sw-ne line extending up to where I was. Had I knew(for sure) to just keep blasting south I likely could have made it to the Edmond tornado...I think anyway, maybe not. I had hoped the moisture would have been given a little more time to get to the northwest. I wasn't terribly far from the further north storms as it was. I opted to jump east to Arkansas City(because the pumps weren't working at the last exit in KS and I needed gas). I didn't fart around there too long and opted to try and intercept the OKC/Edmond lead supercell which was looking nice on radar, as well as the ones behind it. I get to Hominy OK with plenty of time to spare. The two lead supercells were just starting to interact and I wasn't terribly sure I wanted to try and cross the river there and intercept them sooner, rather than later. So I waited. As the lead one crossed the Pawnee area(about 10 miles away) it got a nice velocity couplet and apparently produced 1 of the only 4 tornadoes reported this day. As that happened I drove back northwest a couple miles until I was directly in the path of the couplet. This structure emerged, with sporadic hail stones now. One has to feel sorry for wild life with these storms. No hands to cover their heads, just run around and get nailed....the storm had already produced baseball sized hail. Right now this lead one was more like a figure 6 on radar than a normal hook, with the couplet in the middle of the circle of the 6. I didn't figure I'd be able to see anything with that and pretty much couldn't. All I could see was the wall of rain coming, hiding anything that would be in there.

Couplet still heading right for me, back in the rain on the left. I had to get back out of here, because the supercell merging with it also had a hook, which I'd have to beat back southeast here. This one had a nice beavertail seen on the right here, pointing back to whatever. It also had a fairly constant tail cloud in the rain, just off the ground.

I went back southeast as a TVS(tornado vortex signature) showed on GR3 at the tip of the hook of the one merging with the lead one. I went a hair too far so I back tracked back northwest until I was right in the path of that icon. Sometimes that is the only way to see anything. With fast storm motions it's a good idea to judge that right...as well as your departure time if you can't see anything.

So this is the one merging from the south of the lead one. It's best to be on them before or after they merge, not while they are merging. Like I had a choice with the speeds. I guess I could have taken a more north option, but it's usually hard to tell exactly in time when they'll finish merging and how good that outcome will even be. On the left side you can make out a very curled rfd with rain in it. Any areas to try and wrap up would be right in the middle here, or back in there a bit. I overshot my "in the path" idea as I went northwest. So I leave here and finally see the area that would form a tornado if one would form, but it's JUST south of me racing northeast as I go southeast. Again, sporadic stones are falling here with no rain.

I get by this and quickly pull over and shoot video back west. This sort of bowl object is crossing the highway rapidly at the tip of the curling RFD.

Hail and higher winds started the second I pulled in here.

My windows are tinted so I had to roll them down(HC1 camcorder is already horrible enough in low light as it is). I thought I was angled enough I could do this without being hit, but I was wrong. One slams into my right leg and up the windows went. I wonder what the velocity is on stones when they are right in the RFD and probably being driven down harder by quickly sinking air. Maybe wind doesn't matter with terminal velocity I guess. Either way, they are moving when they reach the ground, or your body. I try again after turning the car and not long after one nails the outside bone in my left hand. Thankfully they were only up to about quarters here at the time. Much larger and I'm sure they'd easily break the small bones in one's hand. At first I wasn't sure it hadn't.

I think I drove east to Hominy a couple miles and shot video of an updated radar image. Nice hook on the one that just went over me. Still a TVS signature on both the lead one and the one merging with it. I didn't even try to chase it here, partly because I couldn't see out my front window anyway, with water inside. And storm motions were so fast anyway. Then all this crap erupted ahead of it. I ended the day over in Skiatook.

An almost line approaches Skiatook and evidently some Christmas lights! Stuff would try and go up and rotate ahead of the line, but just wasn't getting it done up here now.

Wasn't much lightning either, which sucked. Wound up getting a motel in Bartlesville OK. The next morning was odd, in that the lady knocked on my car window to ask for the receipt back...the one she just gave me. She says, "You booked online at hotels.com so we can't give you that...I could get fired over that." So I gave her my receipt back and left, scratching my head. And I didn't even mean to book by hotels.com either. I did at first, but the damn site/connection was taking waaaaaaaaaaay to long. So I see a number listed for hotel info it said. I thought those numbers were to the hotel chain. It wasn't, it was to hotels.com. Booking that room was painful. I could not understand the dude for the life of me. I think he had a very Spanish accent. I couldn't tell what it was for sure. All I know is when he's say "Sir" it was coming out "Shir". All the words were screwed up. I kept having to ask, "what!". This was after spending forever and a day trying to get the stupid sites to load on the crap connection. All that work to get the room and then I couldn't even be allowed a damn receipt because it was booked online. I booked online before and gotten receipts, but never used hotels.com. I still don't get why phone services like that hire people you can't understand. Believe me, it's not good for business. It was funny when he asked where I was booking(I had to spell out everything) before I figured out the number I was calling wasn't to the actual super 8 like it appeared. I was thinking, why are you asking me where I'm booking! His job has to get soooo old, because I'm certain I'm not the only one asking him what after every question.