2:01 p.m. - 5:31 p.m. CST (3 hrs 30 min) (RR) 57424-57555 (131 miles)

The original target was north of Okarche… but, by early afternoon – storms started forming just southwest of the OKC area. These quickly became severe and organized into supercells that would become tornado producing. We left Okarche eastbound on Waterloo Road when the first tech problem occurred. The inverter stopped working. We made a quick drive to I-35 where we found a Love’s Truck Stop and replaced the inverter. During this drive… the lead storm (which was approaching us) started producing tornadoes in northwest OKC and western Edmond. Our detour to find a new inverter likely cost us a close encounter with the strongest tornado in the group as it crossed Waterloo Road. We viewed it from a distance while sitting on I-35 and started back southwest toward other storms. We saw the best storm structure of the day with the third storm in the line as it moved across Yukon. We may have seen a brief tornado from NW 10 and the Kilpatrick Turnpike. After searching for some large hail – finding near baseball size on the south and west sides of Yukon – we called it a day and returned to Okarche. It was a short – very early season – chase that helped work out some bugs, allowed us to see some decent storms and still get home early. One of the best parts of the day was the sunset in Okarche – complete with great mammatus, rainbows and anvil crawler lightning.