5/13/09 NOW: MO/IA/IL/KS/OK

[Elinor McLennon]

Storms are separating right at Logan county, Ok. Starting to get slight rotation on the south end around Mulhall.

 

[Mike Johnston]

Per warning text, tornado observed 5 miles west of Fort Scott, KS by county emergency mgmt., moving southeast now. Haven't heard of many chasers targeting SE KS / SW MO today, but perhaps we can get some reports.

 

[James Siler]

Seen a very large wall cloud for a bit west of the Darlington Game Farm on the Candian county storm but once we got a good look at it it appeared to be come rain wrapped, trying to repostion down towars Union City. Just seen a DOW.

 

[Angie K Holliday]

Saw this on the website for the town I live in:
Not sure if this is ok for this thread, please remove if I'm incorrect in posting here.

Hannibal, MO —
The high likelihood that some of the severe thunderstorms forecast in northern Missouri Wednesday afternoon would produce tornadoes brought a number of storm chasers into the region. Among them was Reed Timmer, whose team was featured last season on the Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers television show.
Timmer and his three-vehicle team rolled northbound into Hannibal on U.S. 61 shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday. The group turned west onto U.S. 36 and continued west to Macon, where at 5 p.m. all three vehicles had pulled off to see what was going to develop.
In addition to being on Storm Chasers, Timmer also operates TornadoVideos.net. The company features extreme storm chasing photography and research. It has over 50 storm chasing teams streaming live video through that Internet site.
It is believed on Wednesday in Hannibal that Timmer was behind the wheel of the team’s new armored radar vehicle (TVN Dominator). The red vehicle is intended to measure the vertical wind speeds next to strong tornadoes.

 

[Will Tinder]

Me my chase partner Kris Fuller are lodged up in Quincy for the night. Drove south from Peoria and he witnessed a "large truncated wedge," with a funnel trying to come down north of Canton, MO around 7:30 or so. Likely this was either the end phase of the Kirksville tornado or a large rotating wall cloud.

Right now in Quincy we've got heavy rain and lots of lightning, little else. The original Kirksville cell is now racing into Illinois proper.

 

[John Hudson]

I'm surprised there's no TOR warning on the cell west of Chickasha. It's showing TVS on GRL8, and a robust rotation.


John
VE4 JTH

 

[Angie Norris]

We've got a tor warning for Oklahoma and Cleveland counties. Nothing's been sighted. Here in Norman we've got continuous lightning, no precip, and just a light wind out of the SE.

 

[Jeff Richardson]

In the midst of a spectacular lightning show in Tulsa that's been going on for at least 30 minutes with no chance of letting up until the last cell to my northwest moves southeast of me. KINX radar site has a supercell sitting on top of it with a history of winds in the 70-80 mph range. Same potential situation on GR3 for KTLX site with a tornado warned storm over southern Oklahoma City.

 

[James Siler]

Beleive I may have seen the possiable "tornado" that was in between Verden and Anadarko. It got interesting on the west side of Chickasha. But just passed Rush Springs it appears that is went out flowish. Radar persenetation has also gone kaput.

 

[Jennifer Combs]

Storm in Greene County, Christian County, Webster County, MO is Tor warned with some rotation on the leading edge. Debris was reported in Springfield from at least a funnel, but so far no one is sure if it was a tornado. Storm is moving pretty fast SE at about 45mph, add that to it being nite makes it a bit tough to see.

 

[James Siler]

Beleive I just spotted a wall cloud about 4 miles NW of Hennepin. GR3 just pput up 4 TVS for the same area.