Just a brief write-up as it's now 1.47am!
We left Enid to head pretty much due west to the Oklahoma Panhandle, stopping at Guymon for lunch. Thunderstorms had formed over the higher terrain of New Mexico (and Colorado) and were heading in a general east direction.
We headed west to Boise City, and noted a 'tail end' storm on the southern side. We dropped south-east and then south - the updraught bases of these storms were visible to the west, over 40 miles away! We paused for a time to watch - but there were a lot of flies around, mainly midge-type flies...not pleasant!
We then kept (just!) ahead of the storms as the moved ever more quickly eastwards, eventually stopping to watch the southern storm move away to the east from a point south of Perryton. We had observed some nice structure to the storm, lots of dusty outflow, and, now, as it moved away into the evening darkness, impressively-frequent lightning.
We decided to stay at Dodge City - but it was a 160 mile journey, much of it through rain, so we were pretty tired by the time we got here after midnight. Further frequent cloud-ground lightning for a time as we drove north, but it was dry in Dodge.
All-in-all a great chase day!
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