Soon after the second such forked stroke from well aloft in the storm’s upper reaches, this third (that I caught) tremendous blast split the sky south of Norman, from just slightly east of the last. This wasn’t like baseball; strikes four, five and more were on the way too. Some folks around Noble were enduring a very loud evening! The main updraft was on the north (front) side, and the storm undertook a net southwestward motion—uncommon for storms in these parts, but certainly feasible in the weak-flow, boundary-dominated regimes of July.
Norman, OK (11 Jul 13) Looking SSW
35.2037, -97.3835