5/15/09 NOW: MO/KS/OK

[Greg Blumberg]

There's an interesting outflow boundary forming off west of Kansas City. It is pretty visible off of the KTWX radar. Meanwhile we're heading up to ICT to rest for a bit and then see what develops. There's a cu field that seems to be developing as we get closer, but it's all pretty high based due to the high LCLs around here. It's pretty visible on satellite as well.

 

[Eric Flescher]

tornado watch

Stretches all the way from Kansas City to St. Louis.
Very much like 5/13.
Attending KU graduation in Lawrence, KS for stepson so can't chase.
Good luck out there

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

Things starting to look much more convective South of Topeka. Tops just to my West up to 40k visibly low bases. Like the pocket of 150 m/s^2 1 KM Helicity just to my SW. Hopefully something can stay close to, but South of the grunge boundary to the North.

 

[jshields]

right now on grlevel 3 there are all kinds of tvs/shear markers on the edge of the line of storms east of kc. i wonder if something might try to spin up! the storm also shows 3.25" hail but there's no warning?!

 

[Mike Smith]

Dangerous "train echo" in progress across north KC area. Rainfall rates 2-3"hr. and flash flooding likely.

 

[John Gnuechtel]

Despite the temptation, I've been hanging here in a McDonnald's parking lot in ICT. The stuff up in the Topeka area looks like it's more of a progressive thing with moderate hail and some winds. I think the real good storms today will be more explosive (and probably need to be caught pretty early on). The intersection of the dry line and cold front down in TX has a nice big puff associated with it on sat now, but I can't make it that far. As such, I'll be sitting tight until something really fires hard near that bubble of highest instability just northwest of here.

 

[Brendon Lindsey]

Well, I am definitely wishing I was over by Alva, OK. Vortex 2 and other research groups all hiding out in Enid, behind homeland hahahah. TWC there also. Setup starting to look great. Crazy amount of instability in the atmosphere...

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Tornado watch KS/OK/TX

New tornado watch storm over Perryton TX storms new north of ICT now see new anvils.

UPDATE: Storms now exploding Salina SW to Pratt Now!!!

Streaming live now Reno county exploding west of ICT.

http://twisterchasers.com/twisterchaserslive.htm

 

[V. Gensini]

Siting in Medicine Lodge, KS right now watching a few towers go up just to my N. Hopefully this thing doesn't line out right away...Cap seems a little stronger than forecast, so maybe we will get lucky.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

North of EMP here looking west ... can see some crisp towers getting started, trying to anvil out. These appear to be firing along a prefrontal line. Sitting here for now, expecting explosive development to the west soon.

 

[Jason.Webb]

Tornado Warned Storm sout of Mt Sterling, IL Looks like several are on it. Skip Talbot is right under it

 

[Steve Miller]

NewsChannel10 out of AMA has a killer stream of the TX panhandle cell:
http://www.newschannel10.com/global/Category.asp?c=163630
Select "Stream 2"

 

[Glenn Rasmussen]

Markus Pfister is on the cell near Pampa Texas http://www.severestudios.com/cgi-bin/player.pl?username=markus.pfister&uid=338

Currently radar indicates 3.75" hail and ssw-ly movement abt 17kts directly toward Pampa.

 

[Brandon Headley]

Looks like NWS has issued a Tornado Warning for Reno Co in Kansas. Looking at radar there does appear to be a nice hook on it with some rotation. Appears to be due west of Andale.

Edit: Allowed to expire. Looks like Tx storms are producing.

 

[Jared Thompson]

The tornadic storm in Sedgwick county KS Kevin Rider has nice view of the base http://tinyurl.com/r54fxt