We sit in Wakeeney this morning with an elevated supercell producing
baseball size hail near Oakley at 7:30am CDT. It's going to be one of
those days. There could be a tornadic supercell as early as noon or
1pm not too far north/northeast of where we sit this morning in
Wakeeney. It could be a long, tiring day of storm chasing.
Below are a few images from the backside of the Benkleman/McCook
supercell from south of McCook looking east-northeast at around the
time of sunset. It was all around a frustrating chase day as our
target around Last Chance to Akron failed to produce supercells.
Supercells did form east of the target and we were caught too far west
playing catch-up for a long time... and never really getting into any
good viewing perspective of the storm from the east/southeast side.
We ended the chase near Red Cloud and headed south to Wakeeney, KS for
the night. Managed to get a couple images that were decent from the
backside of that nice supercell, but the results of the day could have
been far better if we made a better forecast.
