March 7th Storms

Mother nature woke form her long winter nap and decided to punish Oklahoma with a series of long lived tornadoes on March 5-6th. The Wichita area was under the gun for severe weather but for most of the day, the storms remained either on the cold front or in Oklahoma.

SPC did a good job discussing the tornado dangers near Tulsa.

Our lone Mark on this map was a one-inch hail report from Butler County, to the west of Wichita.

I'd been watching radar, seeing the mess down in Oklahoma. A couple of small supercells started SW of Wichita and grew. I needed to see some lightning.

This was 6 miles west of El Dorado, looking east toward the city.

With it being night and wind quickly approaching from the cold front to the west, I went back home. There is an interesting little settler's cemetery next to I-135 and 85th street, where I shot this lighting.

This last shot and video was from the Valley Christian Church and looking west as the cold front and shelf cloud entered.

Maybe we will have an active spring.  Please not like last year and all the local hail.