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4/3/11 NOW: IA,MO, KS

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New Storm SE of Salina on CF/DL here we go should be watch soon.

New storm now 55DBZ over SW of Manhatten KS north of CF.

I also exspect the area from Salina-Wichita to go soon -15C at 500mb moves over DL.

I can see over shooting top from EMP looks awsome NNW.

CF Exploding NOW Manhattan SW toward South of Salina.

Severe SOON!!!
 
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4/3/11 NOW: IA,MO

MD is out for se IA,n MO and may have a cu field starting around the 35 corridor.Think we may head a litlle farther ne towards to Ia/Mo line on Hwy 65.
 
Sitting in McPherson KS and see a tower going up to the NE. Probably a good 50-70 miles away.
Looks like just SW of Junction City.
 
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It's not smoke. I can see it about 60 miles to my southeast.. It was trying to put together some structure about 20 minutes ago, but it's falling apart fast.
 
Rapid development under way in Marion/Mahaska Counties in Iowa. Very high centroid storm.

Update: Warning just issued for Mahaska County.
 
Explosive development in IA at the moment... Going from nothing to SVR warned in 4 volumes.
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Agree with Matt no smoke in that direction. Just had line of winds move through, I would guess at least 60 mph.
 
It's not showing up terribly well on radar, but I can see the MASSIVE towers on the Manhattan storm all the way from here in Lincoln. Even from this far away it visually appears to be a very healthy storm with a backsheared anvil.
 
The Topeka storm sure erupted fast (and shows that Greg Forbes was off on his CI prediction), but I question the surface-based nature of it, being behind the cold front and all. It doesn't appear to have a motion vector that will take it back into the warm air.

The storms in IA also erupted very rapidly and appear to be quite intense. I could see some large hail reports coming from them. However, the discreteness of the storms is fading fast, as the entire cold front appears to be lighting up there. I'm amazed that initiation took place with 700 mb temps so high. I guess the surface conditons were unstable enough to get CI with the forcing from the cold front.
 
Seems like there is some rotation on the southern edge of the embedded supercell line (nothing too obvious at this point).. at the very least it looks like Iowa City/NE Iowa is in for some strong winds/hail.
 
That storm in between Manhattan and Topeka seemed to fire off a boundary that has been visible on Topeka radar for a few hours now. Looks fairly impressive at the moment, but I just wonder whether that boundary is the cold front itself; if so, the storm could be moving into a more stable air mass.
 
There is now some rotation at I-70 on the (western) border of Shawnee County. An appendage has formed.
 
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