This is what storm chasing is all about, when everything comes together!

The tornado continued for a few minutes not moving much and it continued to miss everything in it's path. I was very thankful that no one was loosing property or getting injured!

Just before the tornado began to rope out it quickly shrunk in size and started to become skinny.

I was so busy shooting video I almost forgot to grab a few stills! Fwef!

The tornado began to lift.

And just as quickly as it had all started, it was over! The tornado was no more and storm engulfed the wall cloud and wrapped everything in rain. I quickly moved down the road to keep ahead of this storm as it rapidly began to change into an HP monster.

The now officially tornadic supercell (since it officially has a history of tornadoes) morphed into a high precipitation because and began to wrap itself with rain. Unfortunately that meant my options were now limited as I was not going to fight with potentially rain wrapped tornadoes and monster hail.

I shot some video of a skinny rope tornado that formed and was quickly sucked into the storm. The storm by point was just looking mean and it was still tracking east into less favorable terrain. It was at this point I made the decision to bail and head back west where fresh storms were forming. This was a critical mistake/learning experience. Never leave a storm that has a history of producing tornadoes because it will likely keep producing them!!! Several storm chasers who stuck with this storm saw two more stove-pipe style tornadoes. Darn I should have stuck with it!

SEL0 URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 190 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 205 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF MUCH OF OKLAHOMA EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 205 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 3.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH OF GAGE OKLAHOMA TO 40 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MCALESTER OKLAHOMA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0). REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DISCUSSION...TSTMS EXPECTED TO FORM IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO INVOF SLOWLY RETREATING W/E OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN W CNTRL OK. OTHER STORMS ALSO MAY FORM A BIT LATER NEAR INTERSECTION OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WITH CONFLUENCE LINE IN CNTRL OK...AND IN MORE STRONGLY HEATED ENVIRONMENT NEAR WARM FRONT IN SE OK /REF MCD 623/. GIVEN STRENGTH OF WIND FIELD...EXPECTATION OF CONTINUED LOW LVL DESTABILIZATION...AND EVENTUAL ONSET OF MID LVL COOLING/ASCENT WITH UPR IMPULSE NOW IN THE WRN TX PANHANDLE...SETUP APPEARS FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG SUPERCELLS. ONE OR TWO OF THESE MAY BECOME LONG-LIVED...AND YIELD A COUPLE STRONG TORNADOES...AS THEY INTERACT WITH BACKED LOW LVL FLOW NEAR OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND/OR WARM FRONT. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26030.

This was the anvil of the next storm I had my eye on, a wonderful supercell just a little south of the prior storm.