May 9 2016 South-Central Oklahoma Tornadoes

It's been a very busy spring so far between storms, school and work. Finally, here are my pictures from the SC Oklahoma tornadoes near Wynnewood, Sulphur and Bromide. I'm continuing to chip away at last season's chase logs so I can begin on this season's chase logs before I get too behind. Photos will be captioned below.

First view of the Katie-Wynnewood EF4 north of Wynnewood as it churns west of I-35 

The tornado as it begins to enter it's ropeout phase crossing I-35. Sitting just east of Wynnewood. 

The tornado begins to come undone completely with a massive barrel updraft and long inflow tail

The condensation funnel rapidly evaporates

The large mothership looming south of Wynnewood prior to the Sulphur wedge

The large Sulphur wedge about 4 miles north of Sulphur. Inflow was quite strong.

The entire updraft and wedge 

Hard RFD cut with solid updraft tower and the low contrast wedge continuing to the east

The Bromide tornado shortly after touching down. Viewed from southeast of Hickory.

The tornado viewed from full zoom as it morphs into an elephant trunk

The ropeout stage begins

Displaying walled structure in the center 

Rapidly breaking down after 7-8 minutes on the ground 

A distant view to the north at the Norman LP 

Arguably one of, if not the best chase days I've had. We saw four tornadoes in all. The Katie-Wynnewood tornado was initially rated as an EF3 before being upgraded to EF4. Both the Sulphur wedge and Bromide tornado were rated EF3.  

Looking ahead, it looks like we have an active week of some less synoptically-evident severe setups starting Sunday on the High Plains. It should be a busy week so updates may be few and far between for the next 7-10 days.