Sunday appeared to be a favorable day for chasing. Northwest flow was predicted to continue across the area and become more westerly by evening. At the surface, a surface low was to form in southeast Colorado, maybe into southwest Kansas. A mid level shortwave was progged to drop over the area during the afternoon, providing favorable lift across the region. Afternoon LIs ended up near -8 and CAPE values around 4000 J/Kg.

Our target area was Liberal, Kansas, and which is where we went. Storms developed early along the warm front across southern Kansas/north Oklahoma, prompting a severe thunderstorm watch. A few hours later, storms develop west and north of Liberal. We watched a storm from Hugoton, Kansas, along with some OU researchers. To our east a squall line was organizing and an outflow boundary was headed our way. We dropped south into the Oklahoma panhandle and gathered more data. Radar data indicated that a line extended from Wichita, Kansas to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, with three-four discrete storms farther west.

By this time it was around 7:00pm and about time to head home. The tornado threat appeared to have diminished, with transition to a wind event. We started east and watched the gust front move rapidly towards us. We stopped and setup video of the gust front as it approach. I successfully measured 51.2mph wind before chickening out. I comfortably estimated the speed at 60mph. We continued east towards Woodward, noting a turned over semi and snapped power poles. We finally got southeast of Woodward and ran into another blown over semi. We drove over a live power line, which unfortunately is on tape.

We attempted to catch the storms; however the line had formed a MCS and was moving rapidly south. Woodward had just regained power when we got there and fueling stations were offline. We attempted to fill-up at other location along Highway 3, with no luck. Every town between Woodward and Kingfisher was without power. Eventually we got fuel in Kingfisher.

The storms were way ahead of us, blasting through southern Oklahoma. Determining that the event was about over, we headed home. The storms ended up moving all the way to Houston, resulting in a wide swath of damage across Oklahoma and Texas.