Departed
for Overland Park, KS with my son Ryan and his
friend, Jeremy Brendal in the early evening of
"chase eve". Spent the night at Brian's
place and up the next morning ready to go.
The target was Kingman, Kansas. The initial
target held as we had lunch at the Kingman Kansas
Pizza Hut. After lunch, we decided to move
just a bit south as we began seeing returns on the
radar down inside the Oklahoma border. As we
headed south, we began seeing cells erupting right
in front of us in southern Kansas. Wasn't
long before we could tell these cells were gaining
strength. We worked our way east to get in
an ideal spot and watched as the back end of the
storm came right to us as the storm became tornado
warned.
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As
the storms moved by us and we followed, we were
treated to many shapes of the wall cloud and many
funnel clouds with several nearly touching the
ground. It was later reported that one of
these funnels (picture #2 below) did indeed touch
the ground although we were never close enough to notice
anything swirl up on the ground ourselves.
As these storms moved away toward
the Wichita, Kansas metro area, we saw more
storms developing to our south. We moved
our way south into Oklahoma to get in line
with these storms, but our hope of them
developing into tornadic supercells never came
to be.
TOTAL
MILES: 1140
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Click
on the link below to see video of
some of these storms.
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April 26, 2016 
