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5/12/10 NOW: OK/KS/IA

J Holder

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TOR Watch 155 issued for Ks and OK pretty much from KS turnpike/I35 to the West 100 miles. Looks like the Ames, IA area still SVR warned.

Again, anyone driving along I70 Eastbound through Topeka you may want to divert to the South as they've had a nasty car pedestrian accident involving 2 police officers, a K9 and 2 citizens. I70 East bound is locked down.
 
Severe Warning for Reno and Kingman Counties in Kansas. 2.25 inch hail marker already showing up. Got to love these high CAPE setups.
Seem to be riding a boundary and firing along it. Should keep going north along it.
 
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Looks like the tornado watch covers the same area that was hit yesterday just about. Looks like the storms in Kansas are quickly going severe and already large hail is possible. Wichita looks to be under the gun again. The storm by Kingman looks the strongest with hail up to tennis ball size possible.
 
There are currently two threads for the NOW for this day. Why don't we merge it into one? I would suggest using the other one since it was posted first. I'm sure the mods can take care of this.
 
Tornado Warning for Harvey, McPherson, Reno, and Kingman counties in KS (as per Severestudio twitter feed). Sirens going off in Hutchinson, KS, NW of Wichita; apparently conflicting reports of a funnel.
 
Storms continue to build back down the line into OK. An area of broad rotation just passed near or over Kingman, KS. Looks like road conditions will become an issue for chasers as one storm over another passes over the same area. A lot of the non-paved roads in that area do not do well with heavy rain.
 
Non severe t-storm currently passing through Lawrence, KS. This is just crap out ahead of the main line which is back in central Kansas.

Temp has risen from 57 to 67 degrees over the last two hours at my home here as the warm front passed through, currently lying just north of I-70 by my estimation. Still cloudy with the small storm currently passing through.
 
Multiple cells up and down the line beginning to exhibit supercellular characteristics. Nice hook now SE of McPhereson, KS on northern most cell.
 
Northern storm appears to have latched on to a boundary, apparently the dryline where it begins to curve east and merge with the warm front... So the cell is on the dryline/warm front triple point, which would definitely be a favored spot for tornadic activity.
 
The hook 6 mi. NE of Attica is going interact with a boundary laid down by the cell with the hook in far NW Sedgwick Co. If the storm takes a little bit of a right jog (so it can ingest the good CAPE air) we may have a long track tornado on our hands.
 
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