{"id":5821,"date":"2011-05-20T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:28:00","slug":"may-20-2011-pratt-county-ks-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2011\/05\/20\/may-20-2011-pratt-county-ks-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"May 20, 2011 Pratt County, KS storms"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE:\u00a0 I made two Stormbruiser pages for this day.\u00a0 This one is the general \u201cchase\u201d summary with images.\u00a0 The other page for May 20th<\/a> is devoted to the spectacular and colorful storm images acquired around sunset (between Pratt and Kingman).<\/p>\n

Today was a somewhat marginal chase day.\u00a0 Strong to perhaps severe storms appeared probable, but conditions were not favorable for tornadoes.\u00a0 Of course, with the tour group and a Weather Channel camera crew with Jim Cantore depending on my expertise, it isn\u2019t a question of whether we are chasing, but where!<\/p>\n

Pasted below is my account, written late in the evening:<\/p>\n

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Our group targeted an area not too far southwest of Great Bend, which was convenient because we started the day in Great Bend.\u00a0 A lobe of decent CAPE was forecast to poke northward towards Greensburg, and the wind field late morning indicated a wind convergence and low-level circulation just east of DDC. N-S linear junk went up a county or two west of Great Bend early afternoon, and we moseyed on down to the tail-end cell near Greensburg. It had its moments as it moved NE, but it eventually fizzled as a new tail-end cell developed. This cell had a great low-level look for 10 minutes between Pratt and Preston, and then became outflowish with a large blocky non-rotating wall cloud. This cell dragged us NE a little, and we let it go to drop south again to get in front of a new tail-end cell near Pratt. This one was able to maintain a decent supercell look for quite a while, and it moved slowly east instead of moderately fast to the NE, like the others. It sported occasional shallow wall clouds, but never made a serious attempt at tornado production. As it drifted east to Cunningham, its large and medium-wet RFD loomed over U.S. 54 and a breath-taking TEN COMMANDMENTS sky materialized towards sunset. The colors and cloud patterns and structure and lighting in and around that RFD cut were absolutely insane! I filled up a bunch of camera cards, and I hope to get a free day soon to look the images over and to post some.<\/p>\n

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The images above were likely taken somewhere in Edwards and\/or Kiowa counties, not too far from Greensburg.\u00a0 Below is a cell which sported a rotating updraft for little while near Preston, northeast of Pratt.<\/p>\n

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The cell pictured above wimped out, and we dropped south to a new cell between Pratt and Cunningham (near Cairo).\u00a0 This was the view to the west.<\/p>\n

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Continue to sunset images for this chase day.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE:\u00a0 I made two Stormbruiser pages for this day.\u00a0 This one is the general \u201cchase\u201d summary with images.\u00a0 The other page for May 20th is… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-44","7":"category-cumulonimbus","8":"category-supercells","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}