Ryan McGinnis
EF5
Pics later.
Chased today with Darren Addy in Kansas. Started out in Kearney, dropped down to Arapahoe, then down to Norton. Saw the initiation atop Goodland and slid over a county to Atwood to try to get in place for it to come over top of us. Didn't look too impressive from Atwood Then the thing split and took a left turn; we backtracked to Oberlin and then south to the Seldon intersection to try to get underneath it. About that time it started to go crazy-go-nuts, and took on the appearence of a bit of a mothership -- we couldn't see much of it, because we were right under it. It put down a few very organized wall clouds before we had to jet east and then south to Hoxie to avoid getting run over by the thing. Lots and lots of outflow on it; continued looking like a mothership. We stopped a few times, snapped a few more photos, and followed it east. TWe stopped briefly somewhere west of Hill City to snap a few shows of the DOW armada; the key to the DOW armada, though, is to leave BEFORE they do, otherwise you get stuck behind their redonkulous convoy, as we did. Not cool when the softballs are on their way and you need to drive fast.
We got to Hill City, went atop a hill south of the town, and snapped a few photos of the city while we wondered if they were going to take a hit. Luckily, they didn't. After that we called it a night and drove home. That super is still tearing across Kansas as I type this -- that one HECK of a long lived cell, originally intercepted at around 6:30 or 7, STILL chasing it at 10:30PM, and it's still chugging along at midnight.
No tubes, but a GREAT chase.
It was nice to see a good, LONG lived storm.
Chased today with Darren Addy in Kansas. Started out in Kearney, dropped down to Arapahoe, then down to Norton. Saw the initiation atop Goodland and slid over a county to Atwood to try to get in place for it to come over top of us. Didn't look too impressive from Atwood Then the thing split and took a left turn; we backtracked to Oberlin and then south to the Seldon intersection to try to get underneath it. About that time it started to go crazy-go-nuts, and took on the appearence of a bit of a mothership -- we couldn't see much of it, because we were right under it. It put down a few very organized wall clouds before we had to jet east and then south to Hoxie to avoid getting run over by the thing. Lots and lots of outflow on it; continued looking like a mothership. We stopped a few times, snapped a few more photos, and followed it east. TWe stopped briefly somewhere west of Hill City to snap a few shows of the DOW armada; the key to the DOW armada, though, is to leave BEFORE they do, otherwise you get stuck behind their redonkulous convoy, as we did. Not cool when the softballs are on their way and you need to drive fast.
We got to Hill City, went atop a hill south of the town, and snapped a few photos of the city while we wondered if they were going to take a hit. Luckily, they didn't. After that we called it a night and drove home. That super is still tearing across Kansas as I type this -- that one HECK of a long lived cell, originally intercepted at around 6:30 or 7, STILL chasing it at 10:30PM, and it's still chugging along at midnight. No tubes, but a GREAT chase.
It was nice to see a good, LONG lived storm.
