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Tour #2 Tornado Bliss Tour For people who love tornadoes.
This is statistically the most active tornado period of the year based on one analysis (see map).
Base City: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Depart from and return to Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City (OKC) becomes our base city beginning with Tour #2 as the average annual tornado activity shifts slightly northward. Weather venues located nearby in Norman include the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Storm Prediction Center and the OU School of Meteorology. Allow extra time to see Oklahoma City prior to and after your tour! Our Oklahoma City base hotel offers a free airport shuttle, complimentary continental breakfast, exercise room and swimming pool. Nearby attractions include: Fairgrounds, Myriad Convention Center, Downtown, Remington Race track, Cowboy Hall of Fame, OKC Zoo, Frontier City, 89ers Baseball and White Water Bay.
The Meteorology of Tour #2
This is the most volatile portion of the storm season in Tornado Alley, when potent upper-level dynamics clash with emerging thermodynamics. These parameters sometime lead to tornado outbreaks, when multiple storms produce significant tornadoes within a 24-hour period. Texas is especially active during the early-May period, with the focus translating slightly northward to Oklahoma in mid-May.
Some noteworthy events intercepted by our staff during this period include:
May 12, 2004, Attica, Kansas (4 tornadoes).
May 22, 2004 Jefferson - Saline Co., Nebraska (2 tornadoes).
May 24, 2004 Thayer Co., Nebraska and Republic Co., Kansas (4 tornadoes).
May 26, 2004 Noble Co., Oklahoma (1 tornado).
May 8, 2005 Bellingham, Minnesota (2 tornadoes).
May 10, 2005 Central City, Nebraska (1 tornado).
May 13, 2005 Weinert, Texas (2 tornadoes).
Our goal is to intercept the best storm of the day anywhere on the Great Plains, from Texas to the Dakotas, and from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River.
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