Chase Case #2

[Chris C Sanner]

Looking at this BEAUTIFUL Supercell off to my west here on I-80...looks like I got a nice lowering with some decent rotation developing...or maybe that's just my imagination talking?

 

[Chris Allington]

Hopping on the developing supercell between Grand Island and Central City and will follow it toward York. What amazing structure on the storm!

I'm streaming live video of the event...

http://www.tornadofx.com/live.wmv

Is this that day? I didn't think any other trailing convection developed that day down into Kansas like it did in this case.

 

[Robert Edmonds]

On my way to intercept from Phillipsburg KS... heading north east into Nebraska.

 

[Danny Neal]

From York, I am heading to Benedict (just north of York) To enjoy the show all evening long. I am sure I will run into many of you so "Hey" in advance! Got my cams locked and loaded.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Is this that day? I didn't think any other trailing convection developed that day down into Kansas like it did in this case.

Looking the radar the initiation is quite similar to may 10 2005, but I'm not sure that is right...Let's wait for the real conclusion

 

[Jake Wallentine]

As i watched the towers go up to my north and west(was sitting in Hebron) I jetted northwest to the cell near Grand Island. Looks like it has the potential to be a beast.

 

[Darren Addy]

I'm way too far south and now heading north on HWY 81 out of Belleville and hoping to catch something coming my way in Nebraska before dark.

 

[John Gnuechtel]

Pretty happy with my decision to head towards Funk, NE. With a name like Funk, it couldn't fail. Would like to think I'd head a bit northeast to try and chase that nice storm near Kearney. Whether I would've made the right choice in real life is an entirely different matter.

 

[Paul Austin]

Looking the radar the initiation is quite similar to may 10 2005, but I'm not sure that is right...Let's wait for the real conclusion

Not to hijack the thread, but as an aside, I was thinking the same thing. But I think the cell in Iowa was a bit further north and drifted S/SE toward Des Moines. The boundary was clearly evident on radar in Iowa on that day as well. We were late to the Grand Island storm (intercepted right at dark just W of York), as we had left Pine Bluff, AR after 9am that day to intercept whatever we could reasonably reach in NE (we were visiting relatives). I originally thought this might be May 11, 2005, when we ditched our original target for the warm front and were "rewarded" with cold precip-filled straight line winds and no visible cloud structure, while a beautiful photogenic cone tornado was photographed within about 20 miles of our original target on an isolated classic supercell along the dry line in SW/SC KS just prior to sunset. This is one of the reasons I resisted the urge to move up into NE on this chase case.

 

[Darin Brunin]

Don't drive into that thing...I just got all of my windows smashed by baseballs

 

[Shane Adams]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't the reveal about six hours late now? Is there anyway to get these cases done and over before 3 days go by? I don't even remember where I'm at anymore.

 

[Paul Austin]

Not to hijack the thread, but as an aside, I was thinking the same thing. But I think the cell in Iowa was a bit further north and drifted S/SE toward Des Moines. The boundary was clearly evident on radar in Iowa on that day as well...

Actually, I might be wrong about this. The link below is the reports for 5/10/2005.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/050510_rpts.html

It matches up pretty well. If I had noticed it earlier, I certainly would have played the I80 corridor. So? How about the reveal? Can we see it soon?

 

[Joel Wright]

Yep, that's gotta be it. Everything matches up perfectly.

If that is indeed the date then I busted. I was east of Amarillo and only saw some marginal hail/wind. Should have stayed closer to home up in Nebraska I guess.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

You guys are right, compare the SPC text Chad posted with the SPC text from that day, it's exact (sorry Chad, you took too long, the natives were getting restless). Here are my pics from that day on the Grand Island storm...

 

[Chad Cowan]

Sorry I'm late, the date is indeed May 10, 2005. Although the radar presentation wasn't as good as the Iowa supercell, multiple tornadoes were reported with the photogenic storm near Grand Island, NE but I believe most of them were brief spinups. This was likely due to the high dewpoint depressions/LCL's. The lone supercell in Iowa had 4 tornado reports attributed to it. Storm structure in the TX panhandle was generally multi-cellular thanks to the lack of upper support and veered surface winds due to the dryline bulging out to the north. Does anyone know about the tornado report in northern KS? Looking at radar, there was not a storm in KS at the time it was reported. The awesome pictures below are Mike Hollingstead's of the Grand Island, NE supercell. Congrats to all who picked the NE/ northern KS target early on!

Initial target map:
http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/export/54011

Forecast thread:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4127

Now thread:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4177

Reports thread:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4197