Chased with a plethora of folks during the course of the day including Blair, Burtis, Pietrycha, Magliocco, and Fritchie observing two tornados and incredible structure across southern NE/northern KS. Began the day in Kearney, NE with CI taking shape across NW KS/SW NE. Intercepted the first cell southwest of Elwood and followed it back toward the Kearney area, pulling east of it as it approached the city with incredible storm structure taking shape. A bowl shaped lowering developed at this point, with occasional power flashes and dust/debris witnessed as it moved through Kearney. As the storm moved east, it became fairly wet, taking on hp characteristics. Decided to abandon this area and make a dash south for activity across northern KS. Eventually caught up with the storm which moved from Stockton to Osborne, west of Beloit. Observed a multiple vortex tornado which moved close to the town of Glen Elder taking on many shapes through its lifecylce. For all practical purposes, ended the chase at this time as the storm raced off to the northeast.
Chased with Katie Burtis, Scott Blair, Al Pietrycha, Scott Currens and Amos Magliocco targeting near the dryline/outflow boundary intersection near Dodge City. Initial convection developed and became dominant near Kinsley. However, it quickly became outflow dominant and observed some 1.25″ hail while dropping south ahead of it. New convection soon developed near Greenburg so we decided to target this area as it quickly became tornado warned. As we approached from the north near Haviland, a nice updraft with long inflow band was noted. New convection was soon ingested and the storm became disorganized. Ended the day in medicine lodge with dinner at good ole pizza hut.
Chased the north-central Oklahoma supercell with Scott Blair, Katie Burtis, Amos Magliocco, and Scott Eubanks observing 6 tornadoes. We departed Salina, KS by late morning with a target near the intersection of the dryline and outflow boundary. We obtained our first visual of the storm near Bison, OK with a well defined wall cloud quickly developing. An elephant trunk tornado soon evolved, persisting for approximately 5 minutes 6 miles WSW of Douglas. The storm slowly moved east from Douglas to south of Covington, producing several more tornadoes including a large cone. Another photogenic tornado developed about 9 miles SW of Perry and persisted for approximately 10 minutes. Ended the day in Morrison with a fantastic chicken fried steak dinner.
Katie Burtis and I observed 5 tornadoes near Quinter, Ransom to Ellis. Chased with Scott Blair for most of the day observing the first tornado, a stovepipe which transitioned into a wedge north of I-70 near Quinter. The second tornado developed persisted for approximately 2 min as a narrow cone with small debris whirl southeast of Ransom. The third tornado occurred as the meso began to occlude east of Ransom, with the tornadic region crossing Hwy4 while becoming rain wrapped. We headed east and then north to keep ahead of the storms as a new meso developed. A quarter to half mile wide wedge tornado soon after south of Cedar Bluff State Park. This tornado eventually wrapped in rain and crossed I-70 west of Ellis with numerous power flashed observed. The final observed tornado occurred just south of Ellis with power flashes along the south side of town, eventually forming a narrow cone.
Observed 4 tornadoes across portions of NW Kansas. Scott Blair, Katie Burtis, Al Pietrycha, and I began the day in GLD with an initial target of Scott City, KS. Chased several storms from Scott City to I-70 as they moved north-northeast. Observed the first tornado at 5:28pm, an elephant trunk tornado near Grainfield which persisted for 17 minutes, becoming a long rope as as it dissipation. We observed the next storm south of Collyer. This tornado produced two tornadoes simultaneously at times; a skinny cone with a debris whirl and another tornadic region that evolved from a dust bowl into several condensed tubes. We headed eastbound on I-70 to keep ahead of the storm and stopped to allow a new region of violent rotation pass to the west. The fourth tornado developed just south of I-70 with a near continuous debris whirl underneath intense rotation, occasionally producing a cone beneath the central axis of the wall cloud. We ended the day with dinner in Oberlin, KS meeting up with Magliocco, Fritchie, Currens, Eubanks.
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