This is our first true bust of the year. The SPC had issued a moderate risk for the western two-thirds of Oklahoma and a sizable chunk of north central Texas. The probabilistic graphics looked rather impressive as well.

The SPC issued a tornado watch for western Oklahoma. My chase partners and I believed there would be more action in the southern part of the watched area, so we went south, and then west so that we were near the Texas border about 20 miles away from Wichita Falls, TX. We called Sarah Laflin and found out that the main storms were in Dallas, TX. We did not have time to get down there, so we headed north instead, then called Sarah again only to find out that there were severe thunderstorms in northern Oklahoma, and not even in the watch box the SPC had put out. After waiting around for a little while and driving north, we gave up and headed back for Norman. Shortly after we did, a tornado touched down in one isolated storm not too far from where we had been.

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