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Here is the beginning of the Meade, KS storm.
I was about 60 miles away when it started to develop. |
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Getting better organized |
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Developing an impressive anvil. |
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This is about 30 minutes after the first image was
taken. |
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Under the meso driving east. The storm was
just starting to show rotation at the lower levels. |
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Near the east side of the meso looking west.
Notice the well defined beavertail. |
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Still looking west, a lowering produced some
interesting dust inflow. |
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The rotating wall cloud moved just south of me as it
traveled east-southeast.. You can see clockwise (as viewed from underneath) rotation
in the lowered cloud bands. The time lapse of this is incredible. |
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The wall cloud continued east-southeast and
continued to wrap up. You can just see the rain curtains starting to wrap around
from the far right. A tornado developed about 20 - 30 minutes later.
Unfortunately, I had to hold up to the west of the hail core wrap around due to a lack of
road options and baseball hail. This prevented me from seeing the tornado. |
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The sun set on this storm. View is looking to
the west northwest as a chase vehicle with a flashing yellow light drives through the
picture. The main portion of the storm is to my north. We were hit with the
gustfront about 5 minutes after this picture was taken. |
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This storm seemed to be the biggest show in town.
Given that it was a holiday, there were numerous chasers in pursuit. I
estimated up to 50 chase vehicles along this road just prior to sunset. View is
looking south away from the storm. Notice the chasers on the hill in the left side
of the image. |