4/22/09 REPORTS: KS

[edward oneal]

Did not hope for much today but storms were firing and that is all I need to go. Went east of Dodge headed for cell that was northeast of Greensburg. As I drove that cell looked like it was getting weaker. So stopped to check radar, saw a cell going up again north of Greensburg was high based LP but with what looked like a wall cloud as I got closer could see it had some rotation. Stayed with it as it tried several times to spin up but could only produce two brief funnels. Here are a few pictures.

 

[Brandon Ivey]

Nice photos Edward! I documented the same storm yesterday. It was a nice little high based cell with rapid rotation at times. The hail fall in the vault region was pretty awesome as well. The largest stones I saw were around the size of quarters.

http://thestormreport.com/blog/2009/04/april-22nd-2009-pratt-county-ks-funnels-and-hail/

 

[Niccolò Ubalducci]

Hello Chaser!

The first chasing yesterday for the Italian Thunderstorm Team... not so bad!

We have intercept the two Supercell of a day, the first near Greensburg and Trusdale and the second maybe some miles at east.

So... this is my photoes.

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[Jim Saueressig]

As those storms moved over us last night they provided some rather intense lightning which I went out to shoot. More Here!



Numerous lines of storms rolled through.



The 3 AM line had some awesome structure but it was hard to get the lightning to cooperate as a flash to illuminate it. As this was getting closer I could hear quite a roar down the line South and started seeing some power flashes that I attributed to high winds but I am not yet sure where they came from.