Within a minute or less after this tornado started, this obviously was shaping up to be an epic scene, a fulfillment of a storm observer’s dream, with an organizing tornado beneath a well-defined, High Plains supercell. Contrary to some social -media claims, it was not a true low-precipitation (LP) storm at any point during this tornado! Just because one can see all the structure doesn’t mean it was LP. In this case, it simply was highly visible, with good separation between the heaviest precip and the updraft. In fact, plenty of moderate to locally heavy rain with embedded severe hail was falling already to the right, in the forward-flank core, and extending back into the rear flank. Archived radar, which anyone can download and examine now, and which I was watching in the field, resoundingly verified this. As the supercell swirled ever closer, it continued dropping sporadic hail up to two inches across on my location, and dense rain and hail further into that forward-flank core, while becoming even better defined in a structural sense.
6 E Arnett OK (18 May 25) Looking W
36.1369, -99.6679