5/8/08 NOW: KS

[Jay McCoy]

Add Kansas to this thread.....

Somewehat a sleeper setup in western Kansas today. Already some action in west central Kansas NW of Garden City..

AT 224 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTH OF SELKIRK...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

Storm was barely 45 dbz at the time. Must be an LP which would make the radar signature less. Most likey since dewpoints are in the low 50's at best.

A number of chasers heading that way but not there quite yet.

 

[Tony Laubach]

Talked to Michael Carlson enroute to Larkin about 20 minutes ago, but at this point, it looks too late. Spotters reported a couple of tornadoes with this cell in the area. Storm is currently severe-warned and doesn't have the couplet it had earlier.

 

[Michael O'Keeffe]

Well Tony it is looking nice in GR3 right now and moving into MUCH better air and CAPE. Also talked to Michael Carlson about five minutes ago and he was heading north out of Lakin and said he was seeing an incredible tower above the base. I think as it moves ESE VERY slowly the bases may lower and we could see a few more naders.

Edit: TVS now on that cell SW of Scott City, KS. Tornado-warning!!

 

[Andrew Stoller]

Wow, the cell in Wichita county Kansas has two couplets. Looks like the first meso is occluding and a new one has formed to the east.

There was another cell earlier today south of Limon that has a decent couplet and TVSs at various times.

Geeze, north of Tribune, everything kinda clumped together into a massive hooked out supercell - tornado warned.

 

[Hank Baker]

5/8/08 NOW: Kansas

Goodland is issuing tornado warnings right now.Looks like west central Kansas right now may be the first extremely photogenic tornadoes of the year. Will see if the visual reports verify. But storm motion is really slow, cloud bases are high, if there are tornadoes they are going to be very photogenic and easy to chase in great chase country. I wish I was up there right now.

 

[Tony Laubach]

The Sharon Springs storm is looking REALLY good right now... wow, what a surprise day in western Kansas... ugh.. the day before my vacation starts... never fails! LOL

Both storms with hooks at last look, the northern one with a mean looking hook. She's probably producing, but most chasers down south right now. Be anxious to hear reports out of that cell.

 

[Jake Wallentine]

The storm east of Sharon Springs just blew up and now there's a very defined couplet and hook on grlevel3. Looks like there was some boundary collisions there.

 

[Stan Rose]

Real classic cell split, with the right mover now moving into Scott cty.

 

[Andrew Ryan]

Been watching this storm, on radar, for awhile now. It's gotta be a high based LP since it shows up on radar very poorly. According the spc report page, the tornado was "confirmed" based on the very detailed time reports.

 

[Scott Lincoln]

Its too bad that no one is on the storm just ESE of Wallace, KS right now. The cell just crossed the boundary and almost instantly spun up a strong area of rotation and got a nice hook/appendage. GR2Analyst MDA was up to a yellow TVS for a scan. I would say that there is a decent probability of a touchdown occurring here soon.

 

[Andrew Stoller]

Chasers report a large rotating wall cloud near Lydia KS. I'm pissed. Had my car packed ready to go, but I decided to hold back.

 

[Andrew Stoller]

I wouldn't be surprised if the first reports of tornadoes, when the storm barely showed up on radar, were land spouts.

 

[Gerard Jebaily]

looks like the storms are starting to die out. They were impressive looking for a short time but this may be the end of em.

 

[Brian McKibben]

Those storms in SW Kansas have a pretty good environment to work with. 0-1 helicity around 150-200, CAPE near 2000, LI near -7.

 

[Mark Farnik]

I'm looking at the storms in western Kansas and wishing that I hadn't had my final high school band concert tonight... otherwise I was planning heading out today with an initial target of Tribune. I would have been perfectly situated. Aargh! Oh well, cest la vie...