This chase started off with us leaving at 6 a.m (I do not think we will ever do this again). Our target area for the day was central Kansas just east of the dry line. This day was initially a slight risk day, but was upgraded to a moderate risk day. However, we were worried because we traveled through rain from Rapid City down to our target area and were unsure about how unstable it would get. Once we crossed the Nebraska-Kansas border, storms began to fire up. Two storms just south of Osbourne, KS quickly became tornado-warned, and we decided to go after the northern one. We headed south of Osbourne to try and catch it. This storm was looking good on radar. Plenty of CAPE and moisture were in place and we were getting excited. But then we lost our radar and did not know what the storm looked like. When we finally got an update, we saw that this storm was dying out. We then decided to head north and try to cut east so we can catch the southernmost storm. However, we were not able to make it east fast enough and decided to wait it out. By now, all of the storms that were developing were high precipitation supercells. Any tornadoes that developed would be wrapped up in rain and would be nearly impossible to see until it would be too late. At about 6:30 p.m., we called it a day and drove almost 10 hours back to Rapid City. We got in at around 3 a.m. and we plan on never doing that again.
These are all photos after we ended our chase:
The first time that we saw the sun all day long.
Under the anvil of one of the storms. There is another storm in the distance.
Thought this looked pretty cool.
Storm in the distance. I loved the structure. The phone line...not so much.
Beautiful sunset.
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