Arizona Monsoon 2019 - Chase Day 4 (15 August 2019) - ENHANCED Risk - C & E KS

[MikeUpjohn]

Morning guys,

We stopped at Limon, CO after an AMAZING chase yesterday. Heading East towards Hays/Topeka, KS area for the ENHANCED Risk and another 5% tornado risk!

Mike.

[MikeUpjohn]

3 inch hailstones yesterday

 

A stunning classic supercell!

[MikeUpjohn]

Ignore the above post, will re-post in Day 3.

Yesterday was another hugely successful day with us catching another 2 tornadoes in Eastern Kansas not far from Alta Vista, KS. We sat and watched, and timelapsed the meso on a classic supercell spin right at us and plant a tornado in the field in front of us!

We moved back to get the structure of this amazing storm, and started doing long exposure of the amazing C-G bolts from the anvil of the storm. While doing this, we suddenly noticed a second large cone tornado about 15 miles away in the storm behind, being backlit by the frequent lightning. This was down for maybe 5 minutes or so that we could see before a third storm came towards us and meant we had to off-road and move back South.

Ended the day with yet more C-G's and nighttime lightning structure.

[Cloud]

Great Photos.  Amazing action for the month of August!