As this spectacular supercell churned along past the OU campus, it gained instant-legend status precisely for not just its stunning appearance, but where it presented its very best views, right at the very locus of severe-storms research and forecasting in all of this world: the National Weather Center. Despite the countless many Oklahoma supercells I had seen and photographed in nearly four decades prior, and even a few witnessed from this and from my previous meteorological workplaces in northern Norman, Kansas City and Miami, none had presented such a dazzling structure show without having to drive anywhere. As I told my onetime synoptic professor Howie Bluestein, with whom I shared this experience on the rooftop, I would drive a thousand miles to witness this, but only had to go up an elevator.
Norman OK (24 Sep 24) Looking N
35.1818, -97.4398