High Plains Drifter

I decided to chase on July 9th since a potential target for severe storms was somewhat close to my route home in either far south-central KS or northwestern OK.  I targetted the area between Woodward, OK and Anthony, KS.  The storms weren’t all that spectacular, but one small storm was rather photogenic near Cheyenne Valley along US Highway 412 in northern Major County along the Cimarron River (near the Gloss Mountain State Park).  This particular storm did reveal decent overall rotation, but given its size, I don’t think it was severe.  I was in a data network black-hole… there is no Alltel coverage (or even Sprint or Verizon for that matter) in a lot of Northwest Oklahoma…still… so I had to rely on old-school tactics (really the way it should be)… using my eyes only to make decisions on where to go next.  The strongest storms of the day were near the Oklahoma City metro area, but I decided not to go down there.  It was still a fun little chase… I really wanted to try out my lightning shutter trigger device on my Nikon D200 (www.lightningtrigger.com), but I saw maybe 2 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes the entire chase!  Oh well