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Well, when you chase 40 to 50 days every spring, you are going to miss a few.\u00a0 I missed a few big tornadoes in May, 2013, and this day hurts the most.\u00a0 We began the day in Ogallala, NE, and we knew one thing for sure —- we needed to be in Kansas.\u00a0 A large moderate risk area extended from about Hyannis, NE, to Clinton, OK.\u00a0 A 10-percent hatched tornado area extended from about Norton, KS, to northwest OK.\u00a0 The target area was not especially clear-cut, though I figured that we probably needed to get south of Wakeeney a bit.\u00a0 Once we reached Wakeeney, I hoped, I would know exactly where I wanted to be by tornado time!<\/p>\n
By mid-afternoon we were headed eastward along Highway 4 in the vicinity of Ransom (south of Wakeeney), I think.\u00a0 There was a storm or two nearby, but these were racing to the NNE rather quickly.\u00a0 They were slowly organizing and looking better visually and on radar as they continued northward, but they would be difficult to stay with, and I was not overly impressed with the environment that they were moving into.\u00a0 There was weak low pressure at the surface near the OK\/KS border, south of Dodge City.\u00a0 It seemed like the best area to focus on would be, or might be, the area east and northeast of Dodge City — maybe a county or two away.\u00a0 I was not sure.<\/p>\n
If memory serves correctly (which is dubious as I have tried to forget this chase), we headed south from Rush Center on Highway 183.\u00a0 We were about where we wanted to be as far as east-west, and now I had to fine tune the north-south part.\u00a0 The air just to our south looked pretty good, and there was some new storminess beginning along the KS\/OK border area south of Sitka.\u00a0 We stopped for fuel at Kinsley, and saw quite a few chasers.\u00a0 I was fairly content about this spot, though there really was nothing going up yet.\u00a0 We were northeast of the surface low — in a good spot with respect to where tornadic storms like it form!\u00a0 But, there were those storm cells down to our south-southwest. \u00a0 Sometimes it is good to be patient, and sometimes it is good to go for something that is actually something!\u00a0 Today, I decided to continue south on 183 to Greensburg and Coldwater, thinking that Sitka\/Protection area “supercell” would be our ticket.<\/p>\n
Not too far south of Kinsley there is a jog to the east.\u00a0 I stopped here one last time to make sure that we were doing the right thing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I decided to continue south.\u00a0 We wound up with an outflowish junky storm near Coldwater.\u00a0 A cell that we saw going up not too far from Kinsley wound up producing some very pretty and long-lived tornadoes near Rozel and Sanford.<\/p>\n
Our Coldwater storm had a cold and junky look, though it triggered some new development south and southwest of Greensburg that looked promising for a few minutes.\u00a0 The new development became undercut rather quickly.\u00a0 As we were racing eastward on U.S. 54 from Greensburg to keep from getting run over by strong to severe “junk”, the nice tornadic supercell was doing its thing just 50 miles to our north.<\/p>\n
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