2011-06-15 REPORTS: KS, TN

[edward oneal]

Chased first decent storm with good structure this year in SW Kansas today. Had lots of wind and dust, so dry here that when rain would start falling the down draft with it would kick up so much dust it would look like some thing more was happening than just rain starting to fall. Here is link to pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/27494159@N04/sets/72157626973370308/

 

[Drew.Gardonia]

I actually chased this one on foot...through my parents neighborhood in Spring Hill,TN around 7:00 pm or so witnessed a large shelf cloud with moderate rotation beginning to spin up a funnel...the chirping of the birds immediately stopped, the wind went completely still for a moment, then started blowing crazy hard, I ran inside to grab the camera and cell phone to call it in, but when I came back out the funnel was ascending back up into the clouds. I thought for sure it was going to put a tornado down right in our neighborhood. oddly enough our sirens didn't go off, although the storm was severe warned, I never saw any tornado warning for that cell.

and I did manage to take these gorgeous mammatus cloud pics about an hour and a half later (should have gotten the tripod out, the results would have been much better on the 24-105 f/4 lens in low light, but oh well.).