Biding time and watching the sky, while choosing which of two storm-initiation areas to target, we found this great little relic of the Great Plains heritage of western Oklahoma. The blades still spun, creaky and squeaky, even if rust kept the rudder from pointing them into the southerly breezes. In the moisture-rich warm sector air, cumulus mediocris clouds, along with a little cumulus humilis and fractocumulus scud, wafted overhead. It was a placid, idyllic scene that belied the trouble soon to come from that eastern sky.
1 E Thomas OK (19 May 10) Looking ENE
35.7477, -98.721