04/10/05 TALK: Central Plains

[Tony Laubach]

With the amount of Colorado chasers talking and planning for Sunday, I thought I'd open up the TALK thread for this pending event. Many chasers from Colorado are in exchange over plans to meet up and head out Saturday night and base camp someplace in Central Kansas. I being the only knucklehead stuck working, will be leaving Denver Sunday at the butt-crack of dawn and hauling out I-70 to meet with the group at the adjusted forecast area. More later, I'm sure!

 

[Verne Carlson]

Tom Dulong and I will be driving out Sat night hopefully linking up with Chris Rozoff and chasers from CSU for a caravan to KS. Meeting up with Tony as he jets out Sunday morning for some cold-core action!

 

[Carla Bisby]

Any chasers wanting to meet up at St. Louis and head west for Sunday's chase please PM me.

 

[Tony Laubach]

The pending snowstorm in Colorado has now come into the picture in regards to me chasing the Sunday system. Waiting to see what the rest in our large group are thinking before making any final decisions.

 

[Bill Hamilton]

Tony, I hope the snow doesn't hamper you efforts to chase tomorrow.

With this storm coming through on the weekend it is going to be a madhouse on Sunday with hundreds of chasers out like on May 29th of last year here in Okla.
Hopefully there will be a few different cells of great interest so everyone isn't converged on one lone cell. Either way it plays out I hope everyone gets out and enjoys the storms.

 

[Verne Carlson]

I'm still planning on heading to central KS today. I have the snowplow here at my house all gassed up and hopefully my wife will be able to dig out from the snowstorm. I won't be here so she'll have to do it. We live west of Denver at 9080 feet and got 7 feet of snow from the blizzard of 2003 so I'm thinking we'll have atleast 2 feet of snow from this one! I may be working Monday at a hotel in Limon if they shut down I-70.


There's even a little action saturday for our drive out, from the Goodland HWO:

AN ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT...MAINLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 24 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83.

 

[JHadorn]

The SPC is throwing Nebraskans a bone today. My area is currently in the 5% tornado risk cat. Not much, but it's a start. Cold front will move through, dew points are forecast to be in the 50 - 60 range, latest RUC run shows no solid 700 mb inversion, and the SPC mentions a surface low forming in Nebraska. For the first time this year I can say that we've got some decent backing winds. 850 mb winds are looking to be in the 20-30 kt range, 500 mb winds are looking to be in the 30 - 40 kt range. Both out of the south.

w00t?

w00t.

I see potential in today.

Maybe it's just the n00b in me, but I'm actually excited about this system.

 

[DanHinch]

I really like the set up in South central KS today and have for some time now. I am heading out soon, planning to be in ICT by noon to plan my next move. Good luck to all who are out today.

 

[nickgrillo]

Reports of a tornado touchdown were reported about a half hour ago in Scott County, KS. Public reported the touchdown for about two minuites.

..Nick..

 

[nickgrillo]

Rapid development now ... the dryline is lighting up like a Christmas tree! Cell is intensifying SW of Pratt, KS. Give it til about 4 PM CDT and warnings will start flying...

..Nick..

 

[Scott Olson]

Well looks like those who played east or ENE of the low should have had a pretty good day. 9 tornadoes confirmed so far, I've been watching from home and noticed some indication of some very large and strong rotation. around 5 p.m. Did anyone catch any of these cells?

 

[Ericka B. Gray]

Report from the field - KS tornadoes

Dean Cosgrove just called in to report catching 4-5 tornadoes - 2 of which were spectacular cones. First one briefly touched down on Cedar Bluff Reservoir SW of Hays, KS. Cones were in the Ogallala area. The last one was NE of Russell around 7 pm CT. He keeps saying "wow" and includes phrases like multiple vortices, incredible rotation, great video, and, once again, "wow." All I can say is I'll be out in a few weeks.

 

[nickgrillo]

Isolated supercell continues to blast northeast and it's right over Norman, OK's head. It's SVR-warned ... and I've been seeing a appendage. Some weak rotation and golfball sized hail with this storm...

Wonder what Norman is reporting.

..Nick..

 

[Jeff Gammons]

I just posted some awesome tornado video from Doug Kiesling that was shot about five miles south of Ogallah, Kansas this afternoon.

http://www.weathervine.com

Update - Just talked with Amos Magliocco. They were heading for dinner after having a very busy day seeing 5 tornadoes.

Jeff Gammons

 

[nickgrillo]

Supercell continues to move northeast and will effect portions of Oklahoma City for the next half hour. Showing absolutely no signs of weakening, and is moving at a very chaseable 20 MPH ... hope somebody is chasing this thing. Besides the golfball hail threat ... radar continues to indicate some weak rotation, so a tornado threat is possible...

..Nick..