On May 23, 2024 we witnessed what was undoubtedly a violent tornado in southwest Oklahoma near the town of Eldorado. After starting and spending a majority of the day in northwest Oklahoma, hoping that storms would materialize there, we soon realized that they wouldn't and decide to drive south to the ongoing storms. It would take two hours to make the drive and the storm was already ongoing so we were just hoping that if the storm were going to produce a tornado it would wait until we got there. For the most part the storm did wait, until about 25 minutes before our arrival when it became very clear when looking at radar that a tornado was about to form. Soon thereafter we received reports from other storm chasers who were already on the storm that a strong tornado was on the ground and was getting even stronger. To try and cut our arrival time down we decided to take a shortcut that brought us through the core of the storm. Luckily for us (and our rental car) we didn't encounter any hail and when we popped out on the other side we witnessed the tornado churning towards us. The tornado went through many visibly different phases throughout it's entire life and for the part that we witnessed. The tornado also had numerous radar trucks recording data on the tornado, with one of which recording peak wind gusts over 200 miles per hour just above the ground indicating that this was a violent tornado. Luckily though this tornado for the most part didn't hit anything and there was no injuries or fatalities reported.
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