Report & Pictures Chase Day 27

[Paul Sherman]

Started Sunday May 23rd in Hays (Ks) with a prelimary Chase Target of that general area. Went to a National Park and chilled out having a picnic! A Tornado Watch was issued at 4pm and the first cells fired down near Garden City! As we neared Dighton I had a massive sense of Deja Vu! Was on the same road at exactly the same time and exactly the same date as 2 years earlier when we witnessed the 2 Tornadoes at once near Dighton, only problem today was this was a Slight Risk and that was a High LOL

Storm Motions today were straight North at 40mph so we let the first HP Beast rocket off to the North towards Oakley! Then went west and witnessed an Incredibly Pretty LP Supercell, this was tracked just due west of a straight North Road - Perfect! Followed this North and it tried so many times to Tornado, at one point a Rotating Wall Cloud was just off the road to our North West, the cell then died off and we were involved in the Vortex2 Circus for about 30 Miles! By this time the Burlington Storm was in our sites and we plotted a course to Intercept, went North towards I-70 & The rest is History - Chase over as a Dumper Truck was sprawled across the North Road, we could have easily intercepted the Stovepipe Tornado ongoing just 33 Miles to our West! One of those things but we all really enjoyed the Chase. Stopped South East of Colby and shot Lightning before heading back to Colby for the Night!

Saw 1 Great Cone Funnel Cloud today and an Incredible Shear Rope Funnel!

The others will upload their pictures in this thread, South Dakota tomorrow and an early start!

Paul S & Team

[nsrobins]

Great work - have missed the last few days activity but it seems you've managed to bag some good stuff in a flattish slight risk period.

Paul - would it be possible to start a discussion for the following day before you retire for the night so it's ready here for UK morning input? Thanks.

Edit: Umm, upgrade to MDT risk for N NE and W SD but 50mph storm motion. High munch parameters IMO

Edited May 24, 2010 by nsrobins

[AudMun]

A little bit late but early starts and late nights and all that......

Stewart

[pottyprof]

Great photos Stewart. Worth the wait.