Start: Alma, NE
Lunch: Greensburg, KS (Crazy Mule)
End: Woodward, OK
414 miles
SPC Mesoscale Discussion 670 SPC Mesoscale Discussion 671
21Z Surface map:
Time-lapse video for the chase by Chris Gullikson (GBOR Cam)
Chase account by TT guest L. Ryan
A morning squall was raging eastward through OK and north TX as we made our way out of Alma, Nebraska, mid-morning. The atmosphere recovered enough behind that activity to allow a chance of severe in southwestern KS during the afternoon. We made our way into Meade County (southwest of Greensburg), and watched some strong storms develop to our west. These showed some organization and teased us a little with some interesting lowerings.
This activity produced some 2-inch hail to our north, in Meade County, but then became outflow-ish and linear. It chased us to Englewood, and we had a nice whale’s mouth underside to photograph. The cool outflow was rather strong.
Some new stuff was going up on the south end of this mess, and we got in front of that at Buffalo, OK.
The tornado chances were nil with these storms, but we stayed with them east of Buffalo and then down to Woodward. The mammatus display at sunset, just north of Woodward, was very high-end!
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