Storm Intercept Summary

   Wow, I finally got to chase again, after a long break in the action.  The action finally decided to setup closer to home this time, but I got a late start anyway.  By the time I arrived in the Wichita, Kansas area, a tornado warned storm was located south of Hutchinson, Kansas.  I drove north towards Newton, Kansas.  I got my first glimpse of the storm and wall cloud to the north of Hesston, Kansas.  I stayed in front of the rotating updraft of this storm for quite some time, and it followed me to just south of Hillsboro, Kansas.  I took some amazing photographs and video of the awesome vertical motion in the updraft of this storm.  The fast vertical motion of the scud clouds being drawn into the updraft, was somthing that I have never seen before on this scale.  I decided to drop south from there, to see if I could get some photographs of this storm's shelf cloud.  I was rewarded with a great looking shelf cloud with the Kansas Flint Hills as my background.  Everytime I chase storms in the Flint Hills, it reminds me that Kansas does have some awesome landscape.  I didn't see any tornadoes today, but this chase was well worth the trip. 

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May 23, 2007
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May 23, 2007
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Wall Cloud South Of Hillsboro, Kansas
Shelf Cloud Northeast Of Newton, Kansas
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May 23, 2007

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