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Tornadoes near Ulysses, Kansas – May 11, 2005

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_82dV0npYE

A dryline would be the target of the day across Western Kansas as a strong upper storm system began to move over the Plains.  Fear of strong capping was what kept us out of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and we worked to get as far north as we could.

The result was us hanging around the towns of Scott City and Leoti, KS for much of the afternoon.  Things were starting to look bad for us as the cap ended up being stronger than forecast even across western Kansas.  It took until late afternoon before the dryline showed signs of life.  When storms formed, they were made up of skinny updrafts that had short lifespans.

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Despite being severe, the Lakin storm had what appeared to be an updraft too small to support a tornado threat.  I then targeted a storm near Ulysses that looked bigger and had signs of sustained shear on radar.  Less than 10 minutes after starting toward this storm a Tornado Warning was issued based on spotter reports of a tornado near Ulysses.

A large tornado became visible (barely, due to darkness) to my east.  Starting east from about six miles north of Ulysses, I could see the tornado was still on the ground.  With the grain of the video being on the poor side, I switched to “super-night-shot” mode.  The tornado caused damage at a farmstead as it crossed the road in front of me.

Later I was shooting lightning as the storm approached Garden City.  I captured one image that not only shows the impressive updraft and lightning, but a small tornado under the center of the updraft.  A bonus tornado and an great end to what appeared was going to be a bust of a day.

Cold core tornado event – March 21, 2005

I spent most of the morning concerned that instability would be lacking for any significant severe thunderstorms this day.  However, morning storms moved out of Central Oklahoma and by Noon we started getting some surface heating along the dryline that was located from Northwest to Central to South Central Oklahoma.  SPC meso analysis showed an area of Northwest Oklahoma had improving low level CAPE and a modest amount of low level shear.  I felt there was a chance of low-topped supercells under the cold pool of air aloft and with increasing towering cumulus on satellite less than an hour from Okarche, I decided to start north on Highway 81.  While in Enid, the Dodge City National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for a storm just north of the Oklahoma border near the town of Protection, KS.  I made a phone call to confirm why the warning was issued (a reported tornado) and figured that the potential extended to storms that were developing in Alfalfa and Grant counties.

I targeted a storm near Great Salt Plains Lake that had a large hail signature on radar that had a severe thunderstorm warning issued for it.  Visually there was nice structure with a dark rain/hail core, rain-free updraft base and vivid cloud to ground lightning.  About the time I pulled up just east of the updraft, a tornado warning was issued for the storm.
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I drove west, just north of the updraft to a point three miles east of Byron when a funnel cloud became visible to the south.  It was moving slightly east of due north and a short time later showed signs that it had become a tornado.  I continued to watch the tornado to my southeast as rain and hail increased at my location.  Eventually, the tornado became obscured and for a short period of time I didn’t know if it was still on the ground or not.  I started driving east toward where I thought it would be and it didn’t take long to become visible again.  By this time it looked smaller, but was still photogenic.

Later, and back east toward the Grant/Alfalfa county line, I came close to another tornado.  I would only see this multiple vortex tornado for a brief period of time before it became obscured in rain.  It had some nice motion with it and leaves and twigs dropped to the ground after it passed the road.