7/30/10 DISC: KS

[B. Kotcher]

My brother Charlie--a police officer living in Kansas City--shot these pictures from his back yard at 8:15 this evening. He said that the storm was only severe warned, but as big and nasty as this funnel looks I don't see how it could not be on the ground.

--Bob

 

[Stephen Locke]

I observed this storm from a high perch on the bluffs of downtown KCMO. No funnel observed from my vantage although the arcus cloud was of the ground scraping variety. Shot from my perspective;
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?p=280485#post280485

I'll post video at a later date.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Where is the funnel in those pictures? I am asking because I don't see one.

 

[Josh Richardson]

I think that Bob was assuming that the arcus cloud was a large lowering or funnel, Mr. Locke's photo gives a better aerial sense of what the storm really looked like.

 

[Stephen Locke]

Storm approaching Liberty, MO from downtown KCMO.

 

[B. Kotcher]

In my brother’s shots you can’t see the lower part of the cloud, but I assumed that it was a funnel because there appear to be striations, and also in the first picture the smooth left side of the lowering with a few wisps coming out looks exactly like the sides of funnel clouds I’ve seen. But from Stephen’s great time-lapse shots and other shots of apparently the same cloud here: http://community.fox4kc.com/service/searchEverything.kickAction?as=96364&mediaType=photo&sortType=recent&tab=yes&includePhoto=on&d-7095067-p=1 , I bet this is the arcus cloud. Sorry for the confusion. Cool pictures nonetheless.

Hey, Stephen, small world: my brother works for the Roeland Park P.D. and says he’s talked with you (hopefully not in a professional capacity! ).

--Bob

 

[Stephen Locke]

This storm was well documented with cell phone cameras.