Mike Peregrine
EF5
Think it's early for a chase report? So do I ... Woke up at my mom's this morning to the sound of the wx-radio blaring a tornado warning and svr t-storm warnings in Kansas. (3/14 EDIT: just wanted to note hear that the tor-warning was called for a high wind event in Lawrence that has later been confirmed as a bizarre downburst event ... this caused some noteworthy damage in Lawrence and even closed KU the next day.) Got ready real quick and went out to grab a couple shots of the elevated Buchanan Co. storm as it crossed the river into Missouri ... excellent shelf ... here are a couple quick pics ... could not get in a good spot in the hills. -- the bad news is that this storm had to have been moving every bit of 50 mph, if not more ... it took no time for it to cross over my head and move north over Agency and then to Dekalb Co. If they are all this way today, we're in trouble.
I'm talking to my mom on the phone as I write this and can hear the large hail hitting her house - it sounds terrible. She says it's covering the ground. My brother says it's tearing the trees APART in St. Joe ... he can't see across the street because there is so much hail coming down.
Then I came back to KC, where the hail was still covering the ground and lining the roads. North KC near KCI took this one on the chin, looks like - unfortunately the worst of it appeared to be around all of KCs most high-dollar luxury car dealerships ... Lexus, Acura, Humvee, etc. were all in the path of the hail core on this one. Zona Rosa also got it, looked like - getting ready to head back out - -
Here's a quick merge of the Buchanan Co. storm base ... no time to clean up now ...
I'm talking to my mom on the phone as I write this and can hear the large hail hitting her house - it sounds terrible. She says it's covering the ground. My brother says it's tearing the trees APART in St. Joe ... he can't see across the street because there is so much hail coming down.
Then I came back to KC, where the hail was still covering the ground and lining the roads. North KC near KCI took this one on the chin, looks like - unfortunately the worst of it appeared to be around all of KCs most high-dollar luxury car dealerships ... Lexus, Acura, Humvee, etc. were all in the path of the hail core on this one. Zona Rosa also got it, looked like - getting ready to head back out - -
Here's a quick merge of the Buchanan Co. storm base ... no time to clean up now ...