07/24/10 Reports Ks

[edward oneal]

Chased storms moving north into Ford and Edwards Co, had a gust front out ahead of them with a lot of interesting stuff going on under it. Many gustnadoes, but at the same time a lot of cloud based rotation and some brief funnels some over the ground rotation. so landspouts might be the word to use. Here are a few pictures

 

[Jim Saueressig]

(Spoiler Alert - No Tornadoes, Just Storms)

The storms were moving SE originally with plenty of lightning which sparked off an oil tank fire near Leroy KS.



Some video of the fire!

And after running some video of that I headed back towards Burlington to see this coming back up from the South:



then the cell that had passed over the oil fire started back to the NW and met up with that structure for this. The black tube is the smoke being funneled back WNW with the cell coming back NW



So I headed North in a hurry to get a better view of the structure as it formed and managed a few more shots further North before it lost a lot of form:



I went up North of New Strawn to see if any structure would reform and got treated to the second purple sunset I can recall ever seeing and was this thing really eerily purple: (the saturation was left as was) (Shot at superwide 10mm)

Looking at the returning cells SSE:




Over my shoulder to the NNW: