John Diel
EF5
Opening the Reports thread:
Left home about 5:30 p.m. and staged at Braman, OK. I heard the reports for the thundertorm warnings in the Udall, Ks area, but went ahead and stayed put (outside my coverage area anyway). I watched the storms building into the SW of the main storm. Moved to South Haven where I saw a dark area between the trees over Hiway 81. As I moved north, this became a straight vertical tube. Not very powerful by any stretch, in fact, I thought it was a landspout as I couldn't see the parent circulation. This spun itself out and I started to move back south. Looking in the rearview mirror and saw another funnel extending from a small circulation halfway to the ground. I whipped back to the north and watched this for about 20 minutes. This was 3 miles south of Wellington, KS.
Remembering to keep my head on a swivel, I saw yet another dust swirl not 200 yards to the west and south of me. I wasn't going to find out if this was a gustnado or not. The circulation was just to heavy. I moved to the north and west of this new circulation and finally the second tornado started roping out to the north. There was never a condensation funnel with the 3rd tornado, but there was cloud circulation overhead.
After this, the storm simply dumped rain eaast of Wellington into the Udall area. Radar estimates were in the 8 inch range.
From here, I headed on home.
Awesome day. 3 tornados in a five mile area.
John
Left home about 5:30 p.m. and staged at Braman, OK. I heard the reports for the thundertorm warnings in the Udall, Ks area, but went ahead and stayed put (outside my coverage area anyway). I watched the storms building into the SW of the main storm. Moved to South Haven where I saw a dark area between the trees over Hiway 81. As I moved north, this became a straight vertical tube. Not very powerful by any stretch, in fact, I thought it was a landspout as I couldn't see the parent circulation. This spun itself out and I started to move back south. Looking in the rearview mirror and saw another funnel extending from a small circulation halfway to the ground. I whipped back to the north and watched this for about 20 minutes. This was 3 miles south of Wellington, KS.
Remembering to keep my head on a swivel, I saw yet another dust swirl not 200 yards to the west and south of me. I wasn't going to find out if this was a gustnado or not. The circulation was just to heavy. I moved to the north and west of this new circulation and finally the second tornado started roping out to the north. There was never a condensation funnel with the 3rd tornado, but there was cloud circulation overhead.
After this, the storm simply dumped rain eaast of Wellington into the Udall area. Radar estimates were in the 8 inch range.
From here, I headed on home.
Awesome day. 3 tornados in a five mile area.
John
