Tour 3 - Day 5 (Western KS) - SLGT Risk

[MikeUpjohn]

Day 5 saw us start in Seminole, TX once again, and the hotel staff starting to think we were staying forever, and heralding a severe storm every time we came!

A long drive North today with a 7am get away to head for Western KS, for a SLGT Risk for severe weather, a couple of supercells and a 2% tornado risk. Glad to be leaving Seminole, as the forecast there was for 100° temps and blue skies!

Arrived onto a storm NW of Tribune, KS and watched it grow over the border in Colorado, but storms were generally struggling as the better moisture and winds were further East into Western KS. The storm did briefly yield a wall cloud but then collapsed back again.

Further down the road, new storms were popping and although the tornado risk had now gone pretty much, we were in for a treat with the lightning....and I mean a real treat. See pics below!

A storm went up to our East that ultimately became tornado warned, and we did see a brief funnel out of it, lit up by the lightning. Now, to say the storm went nuts is an understatement, the lightning pics below are between 10 and 25 second exposures, with C-G's literally raining out in front of us! Best lightning display I have ever seen (until Day 6 surpassed it!)

Enjoy!

Mike.