09/15/10: DISC: NE/KS

[mikegeukes]

Wichita Area Pics of Storms, Hail, etc

Some links to check out:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=57687&source=0
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ict/wxstory/2010/915HailEvent/915107inchstone.jpg
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ict/wxstory/2010/915HailEvent/91510HailLARGE.jpg
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ict/wxstory/2010/915HailEvent/91510Hail4.jpg
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KICT/1009161859.nous43.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/

http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-cd-hail-goddard,0,2833074.story
http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2010-09/130425880-15190738.jpg
http://www.kwch.com/

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/16/1496381/powerful-storms-prompt-school.html
http://www.kansas.com/

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story...etting-hail-stone/1EY9osQ8jEmabegxviFelg.cspx
http://www.ksn.com/Photo.aspx?content_id=d9abfead-8507-47af-810c-f4fcd2a021c4
http://www.ksn.com/

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/103063564.html
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/102993054.html
http://www.kake.com/

Links Courtesy of NWS Wichita, KWCH, Wichita Eagle, KSN, KAKE

Mike
http://supercellweather.com

Preliminary New Record

The Hail stone below that is pictured at 7.5 inches may have broken a new record for Kansas Hailstones. The Hail stone may have broken the record Diameter of any hailstone at 7.5 Inches, other stats include 15.5 Inches in circumference and 1.1 lbs. This hailstone fell near Pawnee and 119th Street in West Wichita around 6pm on September 15th, 2010. The measured circumference and weight were measured 15 hours after the event. The previous record was 5.7 Inches in Diameter, 17.6 Inches in circumference, and 1.65 lbs and fell in Coffeyville, Kansas on September 3rd, 1970.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ict/wxstory/2010/915HailEvent/915107inchstone.jpg
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ict/wxstory/2010/915HailEvent/91510HailLARGE.jpg

Latest PNS Statement mentions the following

HAIL: WE HAVE RECEIVED PICTURES OF A HAIL STONE THAT OCCURRED IN
WEST WICHITA...ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF WICHITA MID-CONTINENT AIRPORT.
A TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS VISITED THIS SITE TODAY. PRELIMINARY DATA
SUGGESTS A RECORD HAIL STONE OCCURRED IN DIAMETER. THE SIZE OF THIS
STONE WAS MEASURE AS 7.75 INCHES IN DIAMETER...15.5 INCHES IN
CIRCUMFERENCE...AND WEIGHED 1.1 POUNDS. THE LATTER TWO
MEASUREMENTS...THE CIRCUMFERENCE AND WEIGHT...WERE TAKEN ABOUT 15
HOURS AFTER FALLING...WHICH REDUCED THE SIZE.

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KICT/1009161859.nous43.html

Mike

 

[Jim Saueressig]

It's official: Giant hail stone new state record

WICHITA, Kansas – Officials with the National Weather Service say a hail stone found in SW Wichita Wednesday night is a new record for the state and the second largest on record in U.S. history.

The stone was found by Melissa McCarter who lives near 119th and Pawnee.

The National Weather Service says the stone measured 7.75 inches in diameter and showed some signs it had melted some, meaning it was likely bigger when it fell.

It measures just shy of a hail stone that fell in Vivian, South Dakota this summer that measured 8 inches in diameter.

I also think some reports got merged in the wrong thread??

 

[Lanny Dean]

I decided nearly too late to head South as I was going to try to get on the back side of this cell but I ended up face to face with it from just East of Severy. All of this was shot at 10mm Super Wide.

(Click any for a bigger version.)

Jim, not sure if you saw it or not but it certainly looks like you have a tornado in the above image just to the left of center....looks like a smaller needle/funnel type tornado. Maybe you have already seen it but I was not sure. At least thats what it looks like to me.

 

[Rebekah LaBar]

Jim, not sure if you saw it or not but it certainly looks like you have a tornado in the above image just to the left of center....looks like a smaller needle/funnel type tornado. Maybe you have already seen it but I was not sure. At least thats what it looks like to me.

Lanny, I saw that and thought the same thing!

Did ANYONE get any images of the tornadoes that were reported from this Greenwood Co. storm?

Rick, see post #2. I saw a tornado, and a number of other chasers saw tornadoes as well. The tornadoes were all small and brief, from what I've heard and seen.

If we hadn't stopped where we did, just before going around a bend, I would not have seen this tornado. We stopped for a bit and looked back, and saw this quickly rotating funnel cloud come down, briefly saw a bit of a ground circulation, and then it dissipated, all within a minute or two.

Edit: Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought you were speaking of the main supercell that tracked through Wichita, but you must have meant the other supercell, as the big one only put down tornadoes south of 400 (in fact, all of the tornadoes were reported south of 400 with the exception of the Severy one).

This is more appropriate for the discussion thread, so I'll end here, but if you want to know about the reports, the Wichita NWS has a page up for the event: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=57687&source=0

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Jim, not sure if you saw it or not but it certainly looks like you have a tornado in the above image just to the left of center....looks like a smaller needle/funnel type tornado. Maybe you have already seen it but I was not sure. At least thats what it looks like to me.

Yes but I was waiting and hoping that some of the other chasers that were there with me in the general area watching could verify that it was actually down because it was just a few minutes behind the time on the official report for the one NNW of Severy and in the other pics surrounding it.

It was in the right location for that report but to me either the time on the report was off by a few minutes or this one reformed and though brief got close enough in this wide angle that it was quite probably a tornado but an unreported one due to the amount of rain in it and it was really not visible from my end except in the photos I cannot say for certain. It is also visible in the second shot but barely. There is only about a 3-5 minute time difference so short of other verification I would say this was probably the one and same that was reported.

I knew basically where it was at because of the intensity of the lightning. I know that has been discussed before and wrote off as not a factor but in my experience it has been true more often than not.