Category: Tornadoes

Tags: tornado, tornadoes, Ada, OK, Oklahoma, May 21 2011, tornado videos, supercell, thunderstorms, lightning, hail, funnel, clouds

**NOT FOR RE-BROADCAST** Copyright 2011 Scott McPartland www.SevereWeatherVideo.com What a day this was! We started the day off in Enid, OK where we all got together and decided on two tentative targets for the day. One in southeastern, KS and the other in southeastern, OK. We decided that the best play would be to head south towards the southeasten OK target so we did just that. On the way we stopped off at Rocky Rascovich's house in Piedmont, OK (just northwest of OKC) to say hi to some fellow chasers. Rocky hosts the annual StormTrack picnic and we figured we could grab some food, meet some friends and keep an eye on the evolving environment. At around 5:30 we saw towers going up to our south near the Ada, OK area so we headed on out. There were two supercells that had gone up and we were hearing reports of tornadoes reported on the southern storm. We were worried that we were too far behind the 8 ball on this day. But, after about a two hour drive we arrived on the northern cell which by this time was looking much better organized and as luck would have it, we were able to get into perfect position to view what was an amazing tornado right around sunset! Southeastern Oklahoma is known for it's poor visibility due to thick tree coverage, and the Ada, OK area is no exception. But this tornado planted itself right in between the line of trees directly over the road, so we had a clear shot at it for it's entire life cycle. Thankfully this tornado touched down on the west side of town and as I write this, I have not heard of any injuries or serious damage. If this ends up being the case that it was truly a perfect chase day. Hope you enjoy the video! Scott McPartland

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