After I got off work at 4pm yesterday, I decided to chase…and intercepted a fairly impressive high-based supercell between Scott City and Garden City, arriving around 5:30. This storm evolved into a larger HP supercell as it neared Garden City as other smaller storms west of Garden City were forming and congealing with the main storm. Some of the storm structure was fantastic, especially south of Garden City along Hwy 83 near the Finney-Haskell county line. I would estimate winds just to my north around the south side of the large circulation to have been 70-80 mph when I was a few miles north of Sublette. Another storm formed farther south…to the northwest of Liberal which attained nice structure. This storm was stationary right at sunset and also morphed into a big HP supercell as the northern activity was approaching. Quite a fascinating chase with excellent storm structure! Below are a few prelim photos:
Wow Mike,
Awesome shots you got yesterday! I saw you on spotter network as that cell blew up and had an amazing hook echo on radar! I really thought it was going to go tornado warned but I never saw it go. Great catch yesterday. Sweet shots as well!
Michael Carlson.
Comment by Michael Carlson — August 21, 2007 @ 11:01 am
Thanks Michael! I think one of the reasons why the storm was not “TORpedoed” was because of near-real time reports I was providing when there was a larger degree of uncertainty on tornadic potential on radar. The storm was always spewing a bunch of outflow, and the LCL heights were just high enough to keep the storm just enough outflow dominant to prevent tornadogenesis.
Comment by Mike U — August 21, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
That last one looks like the StarTrek Starship Enterprise. Thanks for sharing the pics.
Comment by Adam — August 21, 2007 @ 6:25 pm