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My target area for this day was the Fort Smith, AR. area, and I left Conway, AR. at 2:30 p.m. While driving west on I-40, I watched a couple of storms fire ahead of the warm front. One of these produced a decent shelf cloud.1. I continued west towards my target area, and after emerging from these storms, sheared towers were evident across the border in Oklahoma.2. After stopping to check the radar in Roland, OK., I set off after a tornado warned supercell that was moving SE in Haskell Co. As I drove south on HWY 59, some inflow bands and the mammatus filled anvil came into view.3. Turning west on HWY 270, I began to get a good view of the fantastic inflow and updraft structure of this supercell.4. Continuing west on HWY 270, I arrived in an area with a good contrast view of the updraft base and watched as a beautiful wall cloud rotated behind a small ridge.5. The mesocyclone moved over the ridge, and I finally had a good view of what was going on beneath the meso.6. Soon after, the wall cloud became striated as the RFD started to become evident.7. The RFD continued to wrap around the mesocyclone that was approaching HWY 270.8. After running out of road options, I had to settle for this view of the supercell as it produced a tornado near Hodgen, OK. just before darkness started to prevail.9. Thanks to Scott Blair for capturing this radar image of the Haskell/LeFlore Co. supercell.10.
