The 10th was a travel day from
Wall, SD down to Hays, KS for what was setting up to be a
good Wednesday for the central Kansas area. I awoke at about
6:30 am on Wednesday to a ton of unforecasted convection streaming north out of the Panhandles -- talk about a huge (unanticipated) fly in the ointment. Essentially, this morning convection overturned the atmosphere and made for a lackluster instability axis later that day. There was still some
hope, as clearing behind the morning storms provided a bit of heating, with sufficient instability/theta-e wrapping north and west around a surface low along the CO-KS border. I targeted the area west of
Oakley initially, and shifted northwestward during the afternoon. Eventually took off for convection near the triple point near Goodland. Viewed a couple of wannabe supercells near Goodland before finally diving westward to the better looking storms in Colorado, which were clearly elevated (it was very cold at the surface in the Goodland-Burlington area compared to the area south of the boundary where I had setup shop for the early afternoon). Despite the cold low-levels, these
storms did try their darnedest to produce, with even a few funnels reported. Alas, no tornadoes. Eventually shot east with the hope that something would fire ahead of the triple point before sunset. No dice. I finally broke northeast toward Nebraska, and intercepted a good-looking severe storm near
Oberlin. Ended the night in the Hastings Super 8 -- for some reason Priceline thinks that Super 8s are two-star quality. Yeah, right ... Anyway, ferried back home to DKB on Thursday.
Jet streak passes to my east as a traverse the Sand Hills on Tuesday.
Storm between Goodland and Burlington. More interesting storm off to the west (near Burlington) along the horizon.
Storm north of Burlington has a nice cut and even hang-me-down thingy.
Driving near Jennings, KS -- "Oberlin" storm traverses highway.
Ah, my kind of view ...
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