* * Mike Umscheid PHOTOGRAPHY & STORM CHASE BLOG * *
Short videos from my HTC smart phone during 12 August 2011 chase in Southwest Kansas:
Severe storms organizing near Offerle, KS, including a rainfoot to my north:
Severe storms organizing west of Kinsley, KS:
Along Highway 54 just west of Pratt as a menacing severe storm approaches with 60-80mph winds about to come into Pratt:
A likely vortex of some sort... this feature was in the cyclonic shear area on the north side of the significant straight line wind event occurring farther to the south. Radar did reveal weak low level rotational signature near here... more of a "bookend vortex" type signature than anything else:
Near Spivey, KS ahead of a menacing shelf cloud leading 60-70mph winds:
