Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 375

10/13/07 Northeast/Central Kansas

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 555

09/30/07 Northeast Nebraska/Northwest Iowa

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 673

09/06/07 Southern Nebraska/Northeast Kansas

Chase Partner:  Scott Blair   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 655

08/08/07 Northeast Kansas

07/14/07 Northeast Kansas

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 94

 06/21/07 South Central South Dakota/Northwest Nebraska  

 
Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 930

06/20/07 Southeast South Dakota

Cap Bust.

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 520

06/07/07 Northeast Oklahoma  

Chase Partner:  Brian Stertz, Rich & Ryan Thies   Vehicle: Impala     Miles: 688

06/06/07 Central Nebraska

 

Chase Partner:  Brian Stertz, Rich & Ryan Thies   Vehicle: Impala     Miles: 850

05/22/07 Northwest Kansas

 

Chase Partner:  Brian Stertz, Eric Flescher   Vehicle: Town Car     Miles: 760

 

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05/06/07 Northwest Kansas

 

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 625

 

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5/04/07 Central/Northern Kansas

Chase Partner:  Solo   Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 598

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4/27/07 Southeast Kansas 

When I left work at 5pm LT supercells were ongoing southwest of the Kansas City metro. They quickly went tornado warned but the SE storm motions were too fast and I was only able to get a few structure shots from a distance.

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 300

04/24/07 Central Kansas

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 620

04/23/07 Northwest Oklahoma/Southern Kansas

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 720

04/22/07 Southeast Nebraska

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 420

03/31/07 Southeast Nebraska/Central Iowa

03/28/07 Northwest Kansas

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 873

03/25/07 Southern Minnesota

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 750

03/24/07 Northwest Kansas/Southwest Nebraska

Chase Partners: Eric Nguyen, Bob Frichie    Vehicle: Xterra     Miles: 970

03/21/07 Northeast Kansas

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 110

02/28/07Central Kansas

I wasn't expecting to chase today but rapidly developing thunderstorms on the south side of KC were more than I could resist.

 

Looking SW at the anvil of a soon to be highly tornadic supercell in SE Kansas. 

 

Although not visible in the above image this wallcloud apparently contains the latter stages of the Blue Mound EF-4 tornado. This image was taken 2 miles north of Mound City, KS looking north. NWS Damage Tracks

 

This is the last shot of the wallcloud that was likely associated with the Blue Mound, KS EF-4 tornado. 

 

One of very few cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. The lack of CG activity made it very difficult to observe the wallclouds/tornadoes with this supercell. NWS Damage Survey

 

I observed hail up to the size of golf balls in Harrisonville, MO as the meso from a second supercell passed just the south of me.

 

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 276

02/24/07Central Kansas

A textbook cold core tornado outbreak appeared to be in order for Central Kansas as Eric Nguyen and I made our morning forecasts in Hays, KS. We targeted the area between Salina and Marion, KS at 16z. Before leaving Hays the hard drive on my laptop crashed so I really don't know where any of my images were taken. The best I can do is say somewhere between Marion and Salina, KS. Without data or even a Kansas map I decided to stay close to Eric Nguyen and Scott Blair throughout the chase.

 

Having chased a few cold core setups before I was prepared. LOL

 

The funnel in the above image lasted ~7 minutes and at one point had small needle like vortices poking out of it. I was absolutely convinced that a tornado was developing but no evidence of a ground circulation became evident. In the end this funnel was the highlight of the day. Now I am left wondering why the cold core tornado event didn't happen. This nonevent is one that I plan to study very closely for it appeared to have all the ingredients but didn't produce much.

 

This was a fun chase and it was great to spend some time with old friends, something that I didn't get to do much of in 2006.

Chase Partner: Solo    Vehicle: S-10     Miles: 723