Sparky-Watts
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After a slow start, the tornado season should have kicked into high gear today. There was tons of energy in the atmosphere, a system set up to bring cool dry air in from the Rockies colliding with another bringing warm moist air up from the gulf. All the prediction centers were buzzing with the news, giving a high probability of a major outbreak in the central to north east parts of Kansas. Sunshine and I took off around 2pm, heading north on I-135. Just 15 minutes out, we got our first report of a funnel and subsequent tornado warning. It was 4 counties away, or about 80 miles, and moving away from us. We continued up to Salina, then east on I-70. Well, we tried to, anyway. There was a ton of construction on both interstates which slowed us down quite a bit. By the time the second warning was issued, they had begun shutting down sections of I-70 between us and the tornado because of flooding and the subsequent accidents it caused. We managed to catch one wall cloud and some small hail before the storms died down. On the way back home we got some nice shots of mammatus cloud formations, as well as a shot of the storm that was south and east of home base.
The wall cloud:
The mammatus formations:
And the storm southeast of home:
The day was pretty much a bust, as there were only two funnel clouds sighted and we were nowhere near them. They never reached the ground, and only lasted a couple of minutes each. This week is supposed to bring yet another similar system in, so chances are good that something will come to fruition.
On a happier note, I did find this interesting sign along I-70:
Unfortunately, it was a paved road.
After a slow start, the tornado season should have kicked into high gear today. There was tons of energy in the atmosphere, a system set up to bring cool dry air in from the Rockies colliding with another bringing warm moist air up from the gulf. All the prediction centers were buzzing with the news, giving a high probability of a major outbreak in the central to north east parts of Kansas. Sunshine and I took off around 2pm, heading north on I-135. Just 15 minutes out, we got our first report of a funnel and subsequent tornado warning. It was 4 counties away, or about 80 miles, and moving away from us. We continued up to Salina, then east on I-70. Well, we tried to, anyway. There was a ton of construction on both interstates which slowed us down quite a bit. By the time the second warning was issued, they had begun shutting down sections of I-70 between us and the tornado because of flooding and the subsequent accidents it caused. We managed to catch one wall cloud and some small hail before the storms died down. On the way back home we got some nice shots of mammatus cloud formations, as well as a shot of the storm that was south and east of home base.
The wall cloud:
The mammatus formations:
And the storm southeast of home:
The day was pretty much a bust, as there were only two funnel clouds sighted and we were nowhere near them. They never reached the ground, and only lasted a couple of minutes each. This week is supposed to bring yet another similar system in, so chances are good that something will come to fruition.
On a happier note, I did find this interesting sign along I-70:
Unfortunately, it was a paved road.
