7/29/2008 REPORTS: KS

[Brendon Lindsey]

There was a line of storms that blew through N. Oklahoma and I went out seeing how the sky looked interesting.... I saw some minor rotation, reminded me of cold core sytems.... But I got some sick pictures soon to post... I came back home and saw one of the frames on radar went to MESO Marker :3 But the next frame it was gone... but I got cool pics.


UPDATE: Ok, Ok so they were not as good as Jim's haha , but I only drove 5 miles =)

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I got out to to the tornado warned cell a while before the warning was lifted. There continued to be rotation and a few possible funnels tried to form but it just couldn't get it together from what I could see from my vantage point.

This was taken in Southern Lyon County.

 

[Dick McGowan]

Same story as Jim's...I noticed (thanks to many Jon Davies case studies btw) the remnants of hurricane Dolly were providing sufficient shear/helicity yesterday, along a differential heating axis which served as a boundary for initiation.... and pooled enough 0-3 km MLCAPE along with strong surface vorticity and steep low level lapse rates against this boundary...... which was enough for this beautiful tornado-warned supercell to survive nearly 3 hours! So close to a tornado, but not quite....

9 times out of 10 things never fall into place, but yesterday did. I nearly bit on the stuff in Allen/Linn counties, then slapped myself when I saw the storm developing northeast of El Dorado, KS as it was moving into a better environment.

It had a very blocky wall cloud, when I first caught glimpse of it near Hartford...I lost it for the next 10-15 minutes, first to a train, then a one lane road construction wait! This thing was very classic in nature, with a low-topped appearance and was anvil-less...and took on a more shelfy look towards the end, but continued on its great structure up until about 7:30 p.m. before it's death...

All @ 10 mm


Pics available:
http://stackedplates.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-july-29th-supercell-photos.html

http://stackedplates.blogspot.com/2008/07/surprise-supercell.html

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I couldn't edit my previous post. This was the radar shot about 20 minutes before my pictures.

This was the backside of the storm as it over and just past Hartford. (Click for Larger)