This large supercell sported an intense, nearly circular, heavy-precipitation (HP) core of flooding rain and severe hail (reports to near 1.75-inch diameter). Had there been a tornado in there, we couldn’t have seen it safely, and HPs with drum-shaped cores like this rarely “recover” back to classic structure with better visibility. As such, we soon left this big, dark mess for another storm to the south that turned out to be between tornadic cycles. Six weeks later, I would shoot another big, messy supercell with more cloud structure, from about the location where this one was dumping its precip load.
5 SE Ada OK (14 Apr 11) Looking NW
34.7115, -96.6182