Friday, May 20, 2011

Quick update from Salina KS

Yes, we HAD to visit Wakita...which chasing aficionados recognize as the town that was destroyed in the movie "Twister".  The museum commemorating the movie wasn't even open, but we took lots of pictures.  This one shows the anemometer on top of the mesonet probe pointing at the iconic water tower in the town.

After that was done we headed for south central Kansas to position ourselves between the dry line and a warm front.  To make a long story short things didn't work out as we planned even given a tornado watch. The storms that did survive congealed into a low ceilinged mess, but we did salvage a very late evening chase that produced a wall cloud while we watched and a tornado report after dark (that we didn't see).  Here's a couple of the Hokie chasers watching the action north of I-70:
That's about all my muddled brain can think to write tonight...maybe more tomorrow after a night's sleep.

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