Quinter tornado day: new question...

[Andrea Griffa]

Hi all
I was trying to piece together in my mind all the moments of my chasing day of may 23. I remember that after the first supercell of the first wedge (EF2), we observed the tornado roping out;at that point we looked the awesome mesocylone drifting upon our head. Soon after that a new tornado came down and then a new one (the monster wedge north of I 70).
After this, a new hooking supercell approached and then crossed the I70: my Grlevel3 showed an hook echo with a TVS just upon the interstate. Too bad I arrived a bit in late and I was in the precipitation core so I couldn't see the base of the updraft. The I 70 was along the warm front with an enhanced quantity of orizontal vorticity, so I was quite sure that another tornado could have the possibility to touch down. Anyway I didn't read any comment about that supercell like it did never exist.
After that, the new Quinter EF4 tornado appeared on the fields and we all know how did the story go.

My question is: anyone filmed or took some pictures about the base of that supercell?

 

[Paul Knightley]

Andrea - I remembed a very dark cloud base appearing after the EF4 wedge, because we'd gone back to the gas station in Quinter (for the 2nd or 3rd time!), and were filming a rapidly developing base which subsequently developed an RFD/lowering.

 

[Jerry Prsha]

Hi all
I was trying to piece together in my mind all the moments of my chasing day of may 23. I remember that after the first supercell of the first wedge (EF2), we observed the tornado roping out;at that point we looked the awesome mesocylone drifting upon our head. Soon after that a new tornado came down and then a new one (the monster wedge north of I 70).
After this, a new hooking supercell approached and then crossed the I70: my Grlevel3 showed an hook echo with a TVS just upon the interstate. Too bad I arrived a bit in late and I was in the precipitation core so I couldn't see the base of the updraft. The I 70 was along the warm front with an enhanced quantity of orizontal vorticity, so I was quite sure that another tornado could have the possibility to touch down. Anyway I didn't read any comment about that supercell like it did never exist.
After that, the new Quinter EF4 tornado appeared on the fields and we all know how did the story go.

My question is: anyone filmed or took some pictures about the base of that supercell?

I was on Interstate 70 just East of Quinter arriving too late to videotape the F2 wedge but was filming what you described as it moved over the highway. (I had driven all day to just make it to Quinter in time for the storm to cross the highway) There was a lot of rotation (but never really saw a wall cloud) and this was during the wedge but seperate (which I missed btw). It wasn't until I entered Quinter heading North that I saw the original wedge roping out, the chasers in the ditch and power poles knocked over.

I'll try to put some of that footage online for you so you can hopefully see what you want.

 

[Bill Hark]

Andrea, I was on both storms that crossed I-70. Here is a very detailed storm report that I have done with maps and images. I missed the wedge north of I-70 from the first supercell but did see a brief tornado north of I-70 prior to the wedge.

http://www.harkphoto.com/05232008.html

Bill Hark