05/05/2007 NOW: NE, KS, OK, TX

[Tony Laubach]

Tom, Ed, and I are sitting just outside Ransom, Kansas in very strong southerly winds as cu is flying by over our heads. We look to be just east of the dryline which appears to be moving eastward. PDS tornado watch out from our point northward to I-80. Things look to get cranking here soon...

 

[George Tincher]

An isolated cell has formed over WRN Norton County, KS. Other radar echoes are beginning to pop up on the radar S from that location, down across the Ness and Hodgeman County areas, though these are very weak echoes for now. Looks like things are getting ready to get underway again.

 

[mike scantlin]

SPC: <95% probablility of significant tornadoes. wow. i have never seen a probability that high.

the cell that went up NW of Hill City looks like its weakening. i'm at work, so i will not be out today. i'm not into the virtual chase blah blah but if i were out i would be in dodge city waiting for my storm.

with initiation this early, hopefully people in the paths of todays tornadoes will be aware of the situation and take care of buisness. good luck to all going out today. be safe.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Anyone else not thrilled with the backed mid-level flow? I'm not. Watching cell w of Norton now.

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Storms Now Kansas

Their is a broken line of storms starting to build slowly from Norton county southward toward DDC. The 1KM visible shows towering cu NW-NE & SE of DDC as of 11:30 am. Per ruc and DDC radar loop and SPC hourly Mesoscale the area around DDC looks explosive. Craven is now over 90 now in the DDC area.

The other area that also looks great is from McCook NE to Grand Island area.

The third area for explosive tornadoic storms is TX/OK border from Woodward NW OK southward to NW TX near ABI this area should go by 21Z.

Please be very careful today their will be Violent tornados before and after dark.

 

[Jesse Risley]

I'm currently sitting in Russell, KS. We're sitting in an environment with adequate large scale forcing. Cells are beginning to fire from Dodge City to Oakley and NE. Likely won't have Wifi much longer, but looks to be a significnat event given shear parameters, etc. in Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska.

 

[Tony Laubach]

We're currently sitting just outside of Damar, KS (east/southeast of Hill City). Eyeing this northern storm ahead of the line. It looks severely sheared right now and may elect to let it go and drop south back to I-70 to get ahead of developing line.

 

[Chris Hayes]

storms in SW KS appear to be going linear at lest for now. If I were chasing in real life, I'd be going for the OK/KS border. Storms appear to be more isolated in that area.

 

[Sam Shamburger]

gorgeous tornadic supercell already going in far western custer county in central nebraska south of arnold, nebraska. great hook and strong rotation on 0.5° srv slice from klnx radar.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Storm west of Broken Bow is now tornado warned. Has a pretty nice couplet on velocities and a nice core with baseball sized hail reported by the NWS. I'm wondering if the storm firing up to the south is going to disrupt it, though.

 

[David Wolfson]

Cells now firing south along the dryline into the ne TX Panhandle. If I were chasing ( Ryan) I'd be waiting in Ashland with data now to see how the storms develop before racing off after one. Might not have to move much at all.

 

[Jim Placzek]

Getting some reports on local radio of power lines down around Arnold, NE. very near Hiways 92 & 47 junction

 

[Bob Schafer]

Jody Radzik is at 283 and 270/412 S of Laverne.

 

[Jason McKittrick]

The tail end charlie near DDC definitely bears watching, WxWorx has shown some shear with this storm over the past 30 minutes or so.

 

[Michael P. Morris]

I am about to pick up my wife from work and get a VERY late start to the day. We will likely be headed to the Woodward area in the hopes that a tail end charlie or right split will still be reachable. Tucumcari profiler shows very strong WSWly mid and upper level flow increasing over the past few hours. I still don't think a long track tornado or two is out of the question here in Oklahoma...the question is will we get there in time?