Joey Ketcham
Had a pretty nice chase....
Springfield NWS issued a tornado warning close to 5:00 CST for Crawford County.. I left work at 4:55 and headed north on highway 69 towards Arma knowing that I would be able to intercept this storm.
I got to Arma around 5:20ish where I watched a nice wall cloud pass over Arma/Franklin KS with some very nice rotation... I follwed it back east with it just to my north also moving east. As the storm neared Missouri it seemed to lose organization and appears to be dying out. I called it off in Mulberry Kansas....
I talked to fellow storm chaser Russel Parsons on the phone, he continued to follow the storm over into Barton County where he said it began reorganizing itself and once again picking up in rotation. No touchdowns, but very nice and very well defined wall cloud. Definately made for a very nice late-season chase given the hot, dry, non-stormy weather we've been having...
Unfortunately because I was at work when I left, I didn't have my new Canon XL1S with me, which would had made for nice video.
All in all, can't complain. Now I'm watching the storms out west in Wilson, Neosho, and Montgomery counties.....
Springfield NWS issued a tornado warning close to 5:00 CST for Crawford County.. I left work at 4:55 and headed north on highway 69 towards Arma knowing that I would be able to intercept this storm.
I got to Arma around 5:20ish where I watched a nice wall cloud pass over Arma/Franklin KS with some very nice rotation... I follwed it back east with it just to my north also moving east. As the storm neared Missouri it seemed to lose organization and appears to be dying out. I called it off in Mulberry Kansas....
I talked to fellow storm chaser Russel Parsons on the phone, he continued to follow the storm over into Barton County where he said it began reorganizing itself and once again picking up in rotation. No touchdowns, but very nice and very well defined wall cloud. Definately made for a very nice late-season chase given the hot, dry, non-stormy weather we've been having...
Unfortunately because I was at work when I left, I didn't have my new Canon XL1S with me, which would had made for nice video.
All in all, can't complain. Now I'm watching the storms out west in Wilson, Neosho, and Montgomery counties.....