Tornadic storms in the Oklahoma Panhandle. 6/17/2023 — Bryce Kintigh

Published on June 17, 2023

An Enhanced Risk was painted across Southwest Kansas, Oklahoma Panhandle region and adjacent Western/Central Oklahoma. Our target was Beaver, Oklahoma.

Storms began to fire late in the afternoon near Adams, Oklahoma.

Trying so hard to tornado. 06:28 PM south of Floris, OK. #okwx

Storms tried multiple times to put down picturesque tornadoes, but was missing a little low-level spin to get them down to the surface.

Beast of a storm 3 miles west of Beaver, OK. #okwx

Timelapse of all rotation, plus a high-level funnel, from the chase day.

Bryce Kintigh

Bryce has been chasing storms since 2003. Growing up on a farm in North Central Kansas, weather has always played a big role in his life. In 2018, Bryce finished his Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. His favorite weather memory would have to be seeing a large wedge tornado with a satellite tornado in 2007. When Bryce isn’t on the road chasing storms, he enjoys spending time with friends, cheering on the Kansas State Wildcats, and traveling. He hopes to visit every National Weather Service radar site in the nation, visiting over 135 thus far. Bryce is often heard on KAKE-TV, tracking storms all across Kansas and the Midwest.

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