2024--day 6

After spending an unheard of third night in the same place, we headed toward Elk City, OK, not too far from the OK panhandle.  (Elk City is the home of the Aloha Grill, a phenomenal Hawaiian BBQ--who knew?)  

One interesting thing we saw in some of the smaller OK towns was that there were several small dumpsters placed at the curb every few houses.  I'm guessing that the residents just bring their garbage to the nearest one for pickup.  It seems like a smart idea.

We spent a good chunk of our time between western Oklahoma and the north Texas panhandle, where we watched at least two potential supercells, the earlier one near Canadian, Texas being not particularly long-lived (i.e., it didn't have a mesocyclone for long).  

The second one to the east near the Texas-Oklahoma border proved more robust. Sadly, the ambient moisture made visuals somewhat hazy.  Nevertheless, there was a wall cloud, even if it didn't lead to a tornado. 

The storms were beginning to merge into a complex, making them much more difficult to chase and much less likely to produce tornadoes, so we abandoned the chase foe the evening.  We chose to head north back to Woodward, OK (home of the 5,000 year old dinosaur), and were treated to some of the finest mammatus clouds I'd ever seen. 

331 miles for the day.  Tomorrow promises to be a long one.