2004-05-22 FCST: OK/KS/MO/IA Area

[mrobinson]

I know of a few chasers, myself included who have opened their wireless network and labled it chasenet. Mine is open today on 180th ST between Q and Center St SW of Omaha if anyone needs to grab some quick data out this way.

David Drummond and I are heading out now.... Good luck everyone

 

[John Sickels]

SPC has a new mesoscale discussion up, saying a tornado watch will be issues for Nebraska/Iowa, possibly northern sections of Kansas by 2100.

Will this be a PDS Watch?

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

TORN warnings in Western NE

TORN warnings posted for Western NE (Aurthur, Grant, Hooker):

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warn...TORNADO+WARNING

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warn...TORNADO+WARNING

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warn...TORNADO+WARNING

NWS radar out of North Platte shows those storms nicely. There is also a group of storms firing up in SW portion of NE:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r...0/si.klnx.shtml

I see initiation of a line of clouds in South KS between Dodge City and Great Bend.

This is like that pregnant moment before a bag of popcorn starts popping in the microwave...things are heating up!! 8) LJK.

 

[Austin Ivey]

I don't see why it wouldn't be a PDS box given the convection firing in the west with the shtwv moving east into an even better environment.

 

[Lance Maxwell]

PDS......we have a PDS.

 

[Lance Maxwell]

I think we can start a NOW thread now, lol.....several tor warnings out already.

 

[Amos Magliocco]

We're in York, and between the watch, the data, the chasers, and the humidity, it feels as though something momentus is building. Almost an eerie sense of expectation, which might jinx the whole thing. 8)

I've analyzed the intersection of an outflow boundary and west-east southern boundary just west of Hastings. I expect initiation to occur near this point (as it drifts east northeast) within the next 90 minutes.

Good luck all, be safe.

 

[Cstok]

Sitting at SAPP Bros on the wifi with a buch of other chasers. Looking over head you can see lower deck and upper deck sheer....gulp. :shock:

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

TORN Watch Box Posted

Post moved to NOW thread. 8) LJK.

 

[Lance Maxwell]

Well, this is one of the few times I have ever been at home and not chasing where a PDS was issued. The sinking feeling in my stomach gets worse every minute as I yearn to be out there in the field. Ah well, guess I will just contribute by nowcasting.