We started the day in Burlington, and set our sights on S Kansas/NW Oklahoma. We headed for Dodge City for lunch, and then continued south.
We got onto a big storm in NW Oklahoma and followed it all the way across to Enid, where we are staying the night. The storm had some good rotation at times, but we never saw any ground circulation - however, there was some impressive cloud motions. Early on, we saw a very strongly rotating lower portion of cloud, which was occluded from the main updraught. Later, we saw a strongly rotating wall cloud which very nearly produced a tornado, but not quite.
In the end the storm ran over us at Enid, but the large hail passed south of town - but it got very windy for a time. Another severe storm passed over as we finished dinner at Applebee's, and so we got rather wet getting back into the car. A few chunks of hail came down, but not much - plenty of close lightning and loud thunder!
A few chasers caught a very impressive tornado near Dodge City - something which is a little painful to see for us as we had passed through at lunchtime, noting the decent low-level shear, etc!
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