5/22/07 NOW: KS/NE/OK

[Bill Hark]

Towers are forming in the Hoxie area. Image taken at 3:50 PM CDT.

Bill Hark

 

[Dick McGowan]

Watching a very nice cell near Healy, KS that seems to be breaking through.

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[Mike Hollingshead]

Sitting at Wakeeney, can see anvil to the sw of here. Now it is on radar.

 

[David Drummond]

NOW THREADS:

(4) Forecasts & Nowcasts forum. In the Forecasts & Nowcasts forum, we allow two types of messages, as follows.
* FCST is for discussing forecast aspects of severe weather that has not occurred yet, from now up to 7 days in the future
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I am going to go ahead and leave this thread this time since I can't remove the first post without killing the whole thread and we do have a storm forming in KS (even though it's not severe yet although svr is probably imminant). In the future, let's not start NOW threads until the first warning has popped or you are observing SVR WX.

 

[Willoughby Owen]

Here's what it looked like 5 mins ago.. not much has changed, apart from the shaft has increased in girth.



Castle Rock Rd, sth of I90.

 

[Bob Schafer]

21Z mesoanalysis puts LCL's at 1750-2000m there. Hmmm... (Hard) right turner?

 

[Jordan Hartley]

I like the way the cell looks and in fact I think it just split or another cell formed to the north of this cell. Both cells have good looking cores on them just dont know if the southern cell is the tail end charlie since were only about 20 min into development. This is a good sign though for anyone chasing now that convection is underway. Like Reed Timmer stated on his website today

"If a storm can develop south of the cold front along the dryline in KS == MASS CHAOS!"

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

The shaft on teh north cell looks nasty now, with a nice rain foot at the southern edge. We really need that southern base to go nuts and turn right or road options are about to get real annoying.

 

[Eric Treece]

I am sitting in Quinter now. The north cell has a nice rain free base, but the rain core is growing huge rapidly......probably going to be an HP beast.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Damn, that entire area looks like it is congealing into one massive base.

Edit: Or not.

 

[Jordan Hartley]

Looks like new development to the SW of the cells in Gove Co in between Hwy 83 and 23 which has turned the middle cell to junk. Not all impressed with this line of storm that have fired. The dryline is bulged nicely and is showing up well on radar. Vis sat shows a few towering cu along the dryline extending down to ddc.]

Edit: Towering Cu mixed out in about 10 min. Lets not give up on the tail end charlie which is the cell i mentioned earlier. Has an impressive overshooting top on vis sat. Might take it a minute to detach itself away from the mess to the north.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

If we could just put these small bases together we'd have ourselves a nice little storm. The north of the southern two bases getting better and better structure, though small and high based....but not terrible. Been sitting here near Collyer.

 

[Donald Giuliano]

VAD from Dodge City is looking very impressive shear-wise...wow. Now if the storm can just right-turn a bit, things could get crazy. The dewpoint depressions aren't the best, but further east the situation improves some. The storms look very impressive on satellite with nice anvils and overshooting tops, and I'm told it looks like it's getting its act together in person as well.

 

[Willoughby Owen]

Looks like there is a funnel cloud in the meso from the south.

 

[Bob Schafer]

Parameters improve towards the NE state line, though if the storm's motion is really 50mph, which I don't believe, it is outrunning the sfc winds.