I was in Platt City when the storm hit
Hey Melanie
Nice report. I was little North in Platt City, MO after coming up from the end of school . It was too late to go further West so I headed North. While looking south and west at the stuff coming toward you and me in PC I got some nice views. I will get some video grabs Sat to see what I show.
I had heard about this stuff going on in Atchinson but I decided to stay in PC instead of punching south. I had already been off the 435 at Weston where I saw the Mammatus earlier (pic soon).
What I saw that no one else had mentioned yet is the green sky (a little lime tinged with olive color) that was in the sky as the storm cell approached. Any of you notice that? Best Green since 1980s in Michigan when the lime green was just incredible. I think I finally have good green tinged sky that I have been looking for (I have only found 1 person who had a photo last year ) but I think my video footage may be better.
Dr.Eric Flescher (
[email protected]),Olathe, KS -Storm Satori-http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:52:02 +0000
From: Melanie Metz <
[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 4/21/05 Chase Report
Sounds a-lot like our day! Peggy and I drove into the rain wrapped meso
just south of Atchison and were breifly under a very low base with rotation
and lowerings above us. That was the most exciting part of the day since
most of the time we were driving though wrapped rain and hail and hail fog.
We crossed the river near Leavenworth and continued following the cell
driving through heavy rain, hail, and strong winds to finally abort just
south of Liberty. The mammatus were incredible as we pulled in for dinner.
I would love to hear reports from the tornadic storm down in SE Kansas that
looked so great on radar!
Melanie and Michael
http://www.twistersisters.com
>From: Michael Peregrine <
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>Reply-To: Michael Peregrine <
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>We had targeted NE Kansas/NW Missouri today and decided to head west
>toward what became the Atchison cell as it was forming to the
>southwest of Hiawatha, Kansas. We got under the anvil ... saw some
>nice crisp mammatus, and headed south on 75 to intercept the rotation,
>meeting a couple fellow chasers from the board here (Ryan Pfannuch I
>think?). Interestingly, near Horton there was what appeared to be a
>house on fire JUST EAST of the primary rotation on the storm, with
>firetrucks and police surrounding the place. I was hoping the storm
>would spare them while they were trying to do their job and it
>narrowily did. I was not anticipating such a right turn in this storm,
>moving it to the southeast. We followed directly east, then south,
>then east, then south again. Each time getting lost in horrible
>wrapping downdraft and then re-emerging into the cage to see the meso
>again. To the west of Atchison the storm produced ground circulation
>in the middle of some light wrapping rain, and then again south of
>Atchison it produced again, this time with a condensation funnel ...
>Ben, you describe your position really close to the location where we
>observed this ... we were just north of you. It's difficult to make
>out in the photos/video, simply because we were surrounded by rain and
>hail (YUCK!) ... but then the real fun begins. The hail core caught up
>with us in a BIG way. There was nowhere to go but to take shelter to
>the side of a large oak that offered minimal protection. My car still
>has a million new dents thanks to today's storm. The hail piled up
>like snow around us, mixed with limbs, leaves, etc. The storm
>continued a southerly turn over the river and we decided that the meso
>was appearing too disheveled at this point and wanted to get home and
>work on the vid. Were glad to catch what we did, but these super HP
>storms wear me out big time ...
>
>For a few pics, visit the ST thread here:
>
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6070
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:50:50 -0500
From: Ryan McGinnis <
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Subject: Re: 4/21/05 Chase Report
On 4/21/05, Melanie Metz <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds a-lot like our day! Peggy and I drove into the rain wrapped meso
> just south of Atchison and were breifly under a very low base with rotation
> and lowerings above us.
Yikes! You punched that monster all the way to being directly *under*
the rain-wrapped meso? That's not just exciting, that's crazy!
Congrats on a good chase.
-Ryan
