This message is in response to La' 
Rondine's question about where I 
chased a storm with 20 tornadoes on 
5/3/99.

La' Rondine-

Howdy again!  First, I looked at the 
map of tornado paths at:
<A HREF="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19990503/">
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19990503/</A>

and realized that I was wrong- the 
Minco, OK storm that we chased west of 
Oklahoma City (Storm B on the map) had 
only 20 tornadoes, not 21. 

After watching the F5 tornado form near 
Amber, OK (northeast of Chickasha) we 
traveled north and west to catch up to 
another thunderstorm that was producing 
tornadoes.  We were not always within 
sight of the tornadoes, so we do not 
know exactly how many different ones we 
saw, but I am pretty sure we saw at 
least 5 out of the 20. 

The tornadoes we saw were mostly in Caddo 
County, just north of Andarko, OK and up 
to the northeast to Minco, OK, which is 
west of Oklahoma City.  They were "small" 
compared to the F4 tornado the storm 
produced north of Guthrie, later on that 
evening.  We stopped chasing it at sunset, 
when the storm was passing by Minco.

Please let us know if you have any other 
questions... 

CD
2/26/2001