A few views of our closest approach to the widest tornado on record S/SW of El Reno, Oklahoma. This was a chase that I honestly left feeling pretty down about. The storm was pretty waterlogged at times, and the traffic was a nightmare on this day. There was a point when we were actually stuck between two mesos on the north side of the Canadian river (and their accompanying hail cores) because of traffic on US 81. At this point in the chase, we knew the tornado was moving southeast, and we were tracking with it, bouncing down the gridded road network. This was also when there were erratic subvorticies within the parent circulation, which you can identify on each pan over. Just after these shots, the tornado began to slingshot further north and east, which caused us to lose it in the aforementioned traffic. The u-shaped path of this tornado was not unprecedented, and on days like this one with extreme instability and strong storm-relative flow, we knew a big meso with erratic tornado behavior was likely. In those cases, we tend to stay S and E of things until it becomes clear there's a safe approach -- on this day that didn't materialize, which was part of my "well that wasn't what we expected" feeling. Now, looking back and knowing the history being made, I look at clips like this and am happy with how we worked the day overall. We still documented nearly the entire tornado life cycle from varying angles. 🎥 5/31/13 S and W of El Reno, OK #nature #science #supercell #oklahoma #tornado #TornadoScience #StormChasing