06/30/05 TALK: Central Plains

[Mike Johnston]

Kind of surprised talk not yet started re: setup in SE KS today, unless there are many more like me just waking up after traveling back from the great white north all night!

Anyway, parameters look pretty good w/ cold front encroaching on virgin juicy airmass, along w/ a bit of an inverted surface low trough to the west that may back surface winds. Pretty good directional shear, LCL's look to be at under 1,200 m or lower, and visible satellite at mid-day has the area in the clear. No doubt of surface moisture convergence; initiation shouldn't be a problem.

Anyone heading out?

 

[Eric B'Hymer]

I am already here so yes i probably will. :lol:

 

[Chris Nuttall]

I had considered it, especially with my dad being off work, so I have a chase partner today. But, I already have a prior committment today.

 

[Tony Laubach]

I went ahead and changed the heading to include other parts of the Plains today as High Plains chasers in CO, NM, and western Kansas as well as the Panhandles may get some action in these areas today. Low probs and okay setups would get me out today if I wasn't working all day, but I'm limited to Denver this afternoon.

 

[John Diel]

I will most likely be out this evening in North Central Oklahoma right along the I-35 corridor. My plans depends entirely on where the actual initiation develops and which way it's moves (of course we are all dictated by that aren't we?). Depending on timing, I may venture further east into SE Kansas, but most likley will stay closer to home with the MCS development.

 

[Jonathan Merage]

06/30/05 TALK: KANSAS & E. CO

I will be chasing with my partner Sean Mullen today, since SPC was so kind as to grant us a 2% torn. risk rather than just hinting at the possibility of "landspouts" in our area :wink:. Slightly further east, with a stationary front & sfc. mesolow pulling some decent WAA around it's north side, sw KS (around DDC-GDC) looks to have the "best" combo of severe parameters with backing winds, copious sfc. moisture & instability, and synoptic lift. However, I don't think the continued 2% risk (even out into KS, darnit!!) warrants the drive on such a marginal day (mid-level winds just totally lacking).
Will probably just play with any front range convection that's virtually guaranteed to fire today (and tomorrow) but sfc moisture is waay low out here today. We'll just wait & see what pops up around 3:00.
Looking forward to tomorrow 8) .

 

[Philip Flory]

I am possibly going to be heading out in the next 2-3 hrs. The area north of ICT (Mcpherson-HUT-Salina) area looks to be my play if/when things go and can mature. Shear appears sufficient for a few short-duration supercells.. very high T/TD bases should keep the storms mainly high based. Of note... ICT has been mentioning tornado threat in last two HWO..... SPC also maintains 2%.

... good luck all

 

[John Diel]

Over by Coldwater, Ks. there are a few small cells starting to show up along the statelane. Movement appears to be slowly eastward. These seem to be just ahead of the cold front which really isn't moving all that fast itself.

I would think this area (From about Alva, OK. to Wichita, Ks. may be a very good area to watch in the next couple of hours for development.

 

[Mike Johnston]

Dick McGowan w/ Darin Brunin watching the Coffey County, KS storm now doppler tor warned - seeing vertical motion at last report. Showing 43 /ks shear.

 

[Kevin Myatt]

Is anyone on the Parsons, KS supercell? Two tornadoes reported on the ground near sunset. Nice spin on radar, moving right away from EC KS cluster.

 

[Mike Johnston]

Yes - Dick McGowan and Darin Brunin have been chasing this storm all the way from when it was originally warned in Greenwood County and were following it near Parsons as of a few minutes ago. Heard a local radio report of public sighting of half-mile wide tornado, but haven't seen anything in warning statements to confirm this.

 

[Kevin Myatt]

NWS reported this in Public Informatoin:

0847 PM TORNADO 4 NE PARSONS 37.38N 95.22W
06/30/2005 LABETTE KS TRAINED SPOTTER

2 TORNADOES ON THE GROUND

 

[Mike Johnston]

Still reported on the ground per latest warning...approaching outskirts of Joplin. Dick and Darin have broken off the chase on account of darkness. This has been a very long-lived supercell, w/ continuous tornado warnings for ~7 county-lengths in a row now.

 

[nickgrillo]

Any word on how many tornadoes they got?

 

[Bart_Comstock]

It appers that the city of SCAMMON in CHEROKEE Co. KS has been hit by a Tornado....

"0225 SCAMMON CHEROKEE KS 3728 9482 KS HWY PATROL HAS REPORTED THE TOWN OF SCAMMON HAS BEEN STRUCK BY A TORNADO (SGF)" -SPC Storm Reports

.... Does any body know how serious the situation there is? Hope it wasn't to strong and the damage lvl is low.