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Meade, Kansas


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sr990531stormviewa2x96.jpg (8011 bytes) Here is the beginning of the Meade, KS storm.   I was about 60 miles away when it started to develop.
sr990531stormviewb2x96.jpg (7626 bytes) Getting better organized
sr990531stormviewc2x96.jpg (7878 bytes) Developing an impressive anvil.
sr990531stormviewd2x96.jpg (8220 bytes) This is about 30 minutes after the first image was taken.
sr990531mesoa2x96.jpg (7514 bytes) Under the meso driving east.  The storm was just starting to show rotation at the lower levels.
sr990531beavertailb2x96.jpg (7773 bytes) Near the east side of the meso looking west.   Notice the well defined beavertail.
sr990531wallcloude2x96.jpg (7411 bytes) Still looking west, a lowering produced some interesting dust inflow.
sr990531wallcloudb2x96.jpg (7251 bytes) 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.
sr990531wallcloudf2x96.jpg (7381 bytes) 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.
ce990531sunsetchasecar2x96.jpg (7959 bytes) 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.
ce990531chasercircus2x96.jpg (7670 bytes) 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.

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