5/23/08 NOW: KS/NE/CO/OK/WY/SD

[Eric Flescher]

doppler indicates tornado Ness City

Nowcasting: doppler indicates tornado Ness City 7:00 pm my time

 

[Tyler Yarnell]

Matt Grantham has a wall cloud on camera WSW of Ness City.

 

[Sam Sagnella]

Greensburg looks to really be threatened by the storm near Ashland -- it appears to have turned slightly to the right in the last couple of scans. KFOR chaser believes storm will put down a big tornado at some point; no reason to think otherwise, unfortunately. Hopefully, it stays to the N/W of town -- we all know they've had more than their fair share.

 

[Tyler Yarnell]

Matt Grantham looks to have either a funnel or tornado on his cam, on the Ness cell.

 

[Brandon Clement]

Eric Perozo is reporting tornado on the ground with the Ness City Cell.

 

[Alex Lamers]

Matt Grantham looks to have either a funnel or tornado on his cam, on the Ness cell.

Can't say I'm terribly surprised. Also that other cell headed invof Greensburg has a nice BWER signature on it. Could easily produce a tornado too. Very impressive storms.

Just a question to throw out there...anyone see the 85kt peak wind at Garden City, KS earlier...1 inch hail also reported in the ob?

Talk about a bad couple days...they reported 2 inch hail in the ob yesterday.

AJL

 

[HAltschule]

Greg Stumpf appears to be on a major tornadic supercell to the southeast of the DDC radar site. He has been on it for awhile and it looks super-impressive right now with classic comma shaped hooks and supercell structure.

 

[Benjamin Smith]

Doppler indicated tornado on that cell southwest of Greensburg. Last couple of scans do show it is taking a slight right turn. Hope it goes to the NW of Greensburg.

 

[Heidi Farrar]

That cell sw of Greensburg keeps swinging to the right; TVS of 123 knts on it right now. It looks like it will be a real close call for them, but the towns to the west might not be so lucky.

Edit: I guess I should hit the send button a little more quickly... Also, has anyone noticed the massive squall line that has kicked up behind the line of supercells?

 

[Jim Zandonai]

Wow a very tight couplet SW of Greensburg too Velocity and srv ! Very impressive..a classic hook again..

 

[Mike Johnston]

Doppler indicated tornado on that cell southwest of Greensburg. Last couple of scans do show it is taking a slight right turn. Hope it goes to the NW of Greensburg.

Yes, looks most impressive and serious. The areal coverage of the max VIL core has been something. Current course is right to Greensburg and it's maintaining its organization despite merger w/ the much faster moving cell to its south.

Storms moving into the KSN viewing area, so if you want to monitor decent local TV coverage, go to:

http://www.ksn.com/

 

[Sam Sagnella]

 

[Heidi Farrar]

Thanks for that link, Mike.

TVS on that storm is now 158 knts. It is moving at 28 MPH and by the way it keeps hooking right, that seems to make the situation that much dire for Greensburg, since the slow motion would theoretically give it that much more time to continue to hook in that direction. Painful to watch.

 

[Heidi Farrar]

200 knts on that TVS now.

 

[Alex Lamers]

Unfortunately...according to the latest TOR, there is a report of a tornado on the ground with that.

AJL