Tour 2 2019 - Chase Day 2

[Allseasons-Si]

Cells west and southwest of Dodge city now firing up with a severe thunderstorm warning now,they have really got goin.

Edited May 18, 2019 by Allseasons-si

[samadamsuk]

10 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

Cells west and southwest of Dodge city now firing up with a severe thunderstorm warning now,they have really got goin.

Cool - Ed Aldrine looks to be on these

[Allseasons-Si]

3 minutes ago, samadamsuk said:

Cool - Ed Aldrine looks to be on these

Ken Engquist with a nado on the ground SW of Dodge city

[Allseasons-Si]

Things getting a bit hairy on Roger Stoltenberg's feed

https://www.severestudios.com/livechase/

 

[Arnie Pie]

 

 

Edited May 18, 2019 by Arnie Pie

[Arnie Pie]

Live on Weather Channel

 

 

[Tom Lynch]

It was late/early when we arrived at the motel here in Colby , Kansas. Same town that we started from and I understated yesterdays chase. It had everything . To get to the area of rotation we drove though large hail. We sited ourselves in a position where we could watch the wall and could see endless rotation, two funnel clouds form. As we sat the rotating rain curtains got closer and right in front of our eyes a small tornado started to form. We drove into it to turn right away from it. Car three had it then pass right over their location. The area of rotation then crossed the road that we came down and in order to keep up with it we went back through very large hail and then back through part of the rotation to keep up with the main player, which dropped a huge tornado in the fields to our left west side of McCook.

From there on in we had to keep with that critter down dirt tracks, hail fog, fallen trees and mud. We saw 4 more tornadoes and our chase was only called off because the road was closed off ahead us. Down electric lines and a farm house had been demolished, ambulances where racing passed us to the location. The supercell that we where chasing was a cyclic supercell and dropped tornadoes all along its track , maybe well over an hour, who knows even longer. Sadly I would imagine people we hurt which is the sad side of these types of weather situations.

[Tom Lynch]

Some videos from yesterday

 

 

[Tom Lynch]

and another 

 

[Tom Lynch]

another

 

[Tom Lynch]

and one more

 

[Tom Lynch]

The last for today

 

[Jezza]

Some pictures from yesterday's chase near McCook, NE

[matty40s]

Fantastic stuff guys, today is kicking off already!!

[nsrobins]

Great reports and videos - much appreciated.

As suspected an active few days now underway with a potential major OK dryline day on Monday should the NAM be on the money. 

[Nick F]

Thanks Tom and Jezza for the account / photos of yesterday's chase, will go down in the Netweather Chase Chronicles of one of the more epic chases over the years!

Will be watching closely Monday's streams, Netweather teams updates on facebook and media updates for what looks to be a significant severe weather event which is likely to be upgraded by SPC to High Risk.

 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Just been looking at the US charts for Monday, and it really looks like it could be the tornado day to end all tornado days! Screaming jet aloft, with a sharp dryline and very humid backed SE winds with a well defined triple point over OK towards KA. I’ll be watching it, but wishing I was there big time. 

I wonder if El-Reno could be rivalled during this setup! 

[matty40s]

Some big population centres within that area, not good news. Inremember downing tools to watch the Moore biggie. 

Oklahoma City, OK...Lawton, OK...Edmond, OK...Midwest City, OK........and.........Moore, OK...

[Cloud]

Dangerous part of the set up looks Texas panhandle into western Oklahoma.      

Edited May 19, 2019 by nzstorm

[svrwx]

9 hours ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Just been looking at the US charts for Monday, and it really looks like it could be the tornado day to end all tornado days! Screaming jet aloft, with a sharp dryline and very humid backed SE winds with a well defined triple point over OK towards KA. I’ll be watching it, but wishing I was there big time. 

I wonder if El-Reno could be rivalled during this setup! 

Also 6 years to the day of the Moore EF5 wedge...

Relevant parameters do look alarming.  Strong MLCAPE and up to low 70s DPs, but, as you say, a notably strong veering windfield through the mid-level ramps up this risk.  Late night for me Monday. 

Edited May 19, 2019 by svrwx

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

7 minutes ago, svrwx said:

Also 6 years to the day of the Moore EF5 wedge...

Relevant parameters do look alarming.  Strong MLCAPE and up to low 70s DPs, but, as you say, a notably strong veering windfield through the mid-level ramps up this risk.  Late night for me Monday. 

Exciting, but also terrifying, especially for those who will be within the area at risk. We often tend to forget that as storm enthusiasts. I can’t see this evolving without some devastating results unfortunately. The only chink of hope, is the timing and where probable tornadoes hit and miss. Hopefully non densely populated areas. 

Indeed you’re right. That tornado was incredible, and contained some of the most unmistakeable, frightening roar I’ve heard on videos yet to date. I couldn’t imagine the sheer terror of what would go through anyone’s mind if you heard that thing edging your way! 

[Nick F]

A lot of parameters falling into place for a significant severe weather event across NW Texas, western Oklahoma and perhaps into southern Kansas tomorrow, notably quality moisture return and strong heating building CAPE values into 3000s of j/kg CAPE range and strong directional shear as strong 70 kt SWly 500mb flow overlaps strong LLJ and backed surface upslope flow in response to lee trough developing over SE Colorado/OK Panhandle.

However, SPC may hold back on going for High Risk for a few factors - perhaps the large scale forcing for ascent may not arrive in time to take advantage of diurnal / peak heating cycle + storm mode may quickly become linear and messy with embedded HP supercells rather then discrete storm mode. Also models break out quite a bit of morning/midday convection over W/NW Texas and western OK Panhandle to clear north - which could affect quick recovery of airmass for subsequent severe storm development along dryline expected to move east. No doubt there will be some tornadoes for sure, some strong and long tracked, but difficult atm to see exactly where to target until morning crapvection clears.

Edited May 19, 2019 by Nick F

[Mark71]

lots of nice storms at the moment and by the look of thing more bad weather today

[matty40s]

7 minutes ago, Mark71 said:

lots of nice storms at the moment and by the look of thing more bad weather today

Theres a new thread for today's High Risk weather situation Mark

[MikeUpjohn]

Hey everyone,

Attached some un-edited photos for you to see of this chase day. We got 5 tornadoes officially, making Paul's 200th in Nebraska! We got on the storm early on and watched with locals at a gas station as it developed a nice base and started pinging out lightning and the hail markers in the storm got bigger. Before long it started to rotate and quickly went tornado warned.

We stopped down a road South West of McCook, NE and watched the meso spin, and then two little spin ups in the field. Got back in the cars as the RFD came over, and a small funnel produced a breif spin up right over the cars! A very windy 10 seconds with tumbleweed being blown around!

Dive South a little then back North and hook sliced, and on the other side a tornado had just touched down 5 miles West of McCook Nebraska in a field, looked like Wray Part 2! We then had a great chase North with the meso clear at all times, and the storm becoming cyclic, and regularly wrapping up and dropping tornadoes in the field. Down a dirt track, all the chasers stopped as a large funnel came across the road at the end, we could just see a huge lowering spinning about a 1/4 to 1/2 mile in front, and this put down the 5th tornado, but unfortunately, hit a house, and also snapped power poles clean off about 4ft height. This has now been rated EF3 for this last one.

Got to Farnham, NE and the road was closed so we went back to Colby, KS for the night. Some photos below for you, including the tornado damage (look closely and you can see snapped power poles in the road).

Mike.