Total Distance: 315 miles
Target Area: Fairview to Ponca City, OK
Chase Area: Medford, OK, to E of South Haven, KS
Maximum SPC Risk category: Slight

Note a lot to write... Gabe Garfield and I (with a couple other cars following) targeted the warm front (outflow reinforced) across the central OK/KS border region. This chase ended up being quite typical of early season chases characterized by high shear and low instability. The air N of the front/boundary was a bit too cool, despite the strong level shear, for intense convective development. We hoped that storms that developed farther south across western OK would be able to mature and "latch onto" the boundary, but they struggled as well. The 00z OUN sounding sampled a weak lapse rate environment (not much better than 6 C/km mid-level lapse rates) with a tall, skinny CAPE profile. We ended the chase in Enid at the BWW... Given the relative success of the first 2 chases of the year, I can't complain when an early season chase ends like so many other early season chases of the past. *Shrug*

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