This chase is not heading out how I had hoped. I had abandoned the Sand Hills area, and heading back south. There are too many storms developing now. At this point I just hope for some decent lightning or something around sunset which is coming up here in about an hour. Again, this is not turning out how I would hoped. But never the less, there’s storms onto the west. Maybe I’ll get some lightning and do not do this in the future, some marginal storm structure or something. There’s a lot of weak storms at this point. More later.

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Looks like I am heading for the hills, Sand Hills that is. Dealing with left moving dominant storms, and I’m going to drive towards Lincoln county and try to get some storm photography near sunset as a storm’s approached Sand Hills. More later.

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currently photographing nice tall cloud-to-ground lightning flashes
near Johnson, KS. It was a fairly successful day of storm photography
despite storms being way outflow dominant (not a surprise given the
environment). Will be in “lightning photography” mode until the end
and hopefully some nice colors here in a bit at sunset… then back to
Dodge for my first midnight shift.

I decided to make a run at this "no risk" outlooked area of northicentral kansas where there is mesoscale convergence from Hays to east of Hill City KS. I am in Plainville where it is a blast furnace 104 degrees and a dewpoint around 70! Its a nice clumped cumulus field here but will it lead to anything exciting? Models say NO but what will the real atmosphere say? Stay tuned