Kansas supercell – June 19, 2010

Doug and I had a couple of days off and felt this day looked good enough to make the long run toward the Nebraska/Kansas border where we expected supercells and tornadoes.  Supercells and tornadoes did indeed end up happening, but not quite to the extent that we thought they would.

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Before long the storm updrafts had congealed, the storm became severe and started rotating.  As we moved east of Cawker City, we had the plan of getting east of the storm as it approached Jewell.  Road options and timing didn’t allow that plan to pan out and we worked east along dirt roads toward Jamestown.  During this drive, we observed the storm getting better organized with several RFD cuts attempted and areas of strong rising motion and occasional rotation.  The storm looked its most dangerous when it was just northwest of Jamestown.  By this time, we had reached paved roads and were pleased to be dealing with a storm moving only about 10 mph.  Radar showed a couple of areas where tornadoes were possible, but the strongest one appeared likely to be embedded in heavy rain and hail and was moving northwest toward Randall.  Other storm chasers did manage to see a tornado with this circulation, but it was obscured from our view by heavy rain.  The closer circulation tried on numerous occasions to produce a tornado, but always seemed just one step away from getting it accomplished.  As sunset approached, we moved south toward Miltonvale where we got blasted by a different storm which was surging southeastward.  Between Miltonvale and Highway 81 – we encountered extremely heavy rain, small hail and winds which were gusting upward of 60 mph.  We called it a night in Salina.

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