Jay and Jeff spent the previous night in Elk City OK, where they got to visit the friend they made a week earlier. Late in the morning, they went to the Elk City library to look at data. They decided to head to the Childress TX area, where the best instability would be, and blow off the area closer to Elk City where there would be better shear. To make a long story short, this would end up being a very difficult chase in an area with too many storms and limited access to good roads and TV/radio reception. You had to be in the right place at the right time to see a tornado today, and those who were caught brief tornadoes near Cordell OK and Vernon TX. The latter location was a place Jay and Jeff went through 30 minutes before the tornado occurred, but by then Jeff had already assumed everything had turned linear and had decided to head back to Norman. Upon returning back to Norman, Jay and Jeff decided to end their chase vacation, as the jet stream was forecast to head back north and Jay was offered a contracting job.
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