Start: Dalhart , TX
Lunch: Hooker, OK/Mr. Burger
End: Hugoton, KS
414 miles
Chase account by TT guest L. Ryan
Today was looking a little better for severe weather and maybe an outside chance for a tornado. I was thinking that the Liberal, KS area looked like a good starting point. Dew points were easily into the low 60s. After lunch in Hooker, we headed north, and north and north — an area of good convergence was up in western KS, with a cumulus field. A very nice and isolated updraft went up near Leoti, and I managed a couple of iPhone shots of it. These are looking NNE, from a little east of Syracuse.
This storm was moving into an environment which had pretty good tornado potential. We just needed to catch up! But it looked good for only 20 minutes or so, and then it stopped trying. The strong cap turned it into a blubbering mush blobfest. I guess the only good thing was that it decided to go mushy before we wasted another hour or more trying to get to it.
Back to the southwest, more storms were brewing, much like coffee. These were high-based and visually interesting, and the one near Manter and Johnson had a good CG spurt or two. But, none that we watched could really get cranking. The consolation prizes, as often happens, were the rainbow and nice light on the storm at sunset.
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