Oklahoma and Texas Tornados 21 April 2004

by Frederick C. Kruse III (Fritz) - Email ftornado@cox.net

7:25 Pm CDT Funnel about 12 nw Shattuck

Tornado Touchdown 7:27:18 pm (Corrected to GPS time)

Tornado Continues

Small Tornado lifting and large Tornado forming at 7:28:10

Very Large Tornado at 7:28:19

Multi-Vortex filaments under Large Tornado at 7:29

More vortex condensation filaments touching down

Large Tornado on north side of Multi-Vortex Structure

Large Tornado continues at 7:30

Multi-Vortex Tornado getting rain wrapped at 7:31 pm

Tornado not visible and rain wrapped at 7:31:12

Just got back home after a chase into my target area...and Bingo! A small narrow
tornado followed by a very large multi-vortex tornado. I had a friends cell phone
but for some reason it was not working in Oklahoma, and I was cursing it. Anyway
as soon as I saw the tornados there were several police and spotters. I talked to
one that was with the fire department and he saw it also and had called it in. This
is probably the report on the SPC Severe Weather Log:

0030 UNK 6 NW GAGE ELLIS OK 3638 9983

As far as I could figure with my GPS, I was watching the tornados from 5 north of
Shattuck on Highway 15/283 looking to my west northwest.

Details and exact times from video (set to GPS)

About 12 miles nw of Shattuck near or on the State Line (guess)

7:24:59 Funnel narrow (times in CDT)
7:27:18 Tornado, very narrow condensation to ground
7:27:50 Tornado condensation lifted

Very Large Wedge looking Multi-vortex Tornado a few miles nw of first tornado or
approx 14 to 16 nw of Shattuck possibly into Texas corner a few miles east of Follett?

7:28:19 Large Multi-vortex tornado, several condensation funnels intermittent touching ground
through rain wrap time. At times large condensation visible under huge lowering.
7:31:02 Large tornado rain wrapped and no longer visible.