{"id":32667,"date":"2021-05-08T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=32667"},"modified":"2021-11-07T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T01:58:56","slug":"may-8-2021-red-cloud-dusty-inflow-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2021\/05\/08\/may-8-2021-red-cloud-dusty-inflow-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8, 2021 Red Cloud Dusty Inflow Supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Start: \u00a0Woodward, OK\/Lunch: \u00a0Kinsley KS, Romano’s Pizza\/End: \u00a0Park City, KS\/538 miles<\/p>\n

SPC Storm Reports<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Day One\/20Z<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 561<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0SPC Mesoscale Discussion 563<\/a><\/p>\n

SPC Mesoscale Discussion 564<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0SPC Mesoscale Discussion 565<\/a><\/p>\n

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21Z\/4 p.m. CDT surface map<\/p>\n

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Chase route into and out of southern Nebraska<\/p>\n

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Time-lapse “green bucket” van roof-cam video by Chris Gullikson<\/a><\/p>\n

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The final chase day of Tour 2 was blessed with a 5 percent tornado risk and a 30 percent hatched hail area by SPC! \u00a0These swaths were generally along and north of I-70 in north-central Kansas to the Nebraska border, in the vicinity of a triple point (out west near Wakeeny and Hays) and eastward along a warm front. \u00a0Dew points were in the upper 50s to near 60F…not fabulous for tornadoes, but quite a bit better than what we had been working with for a while. \u00a0Lunch was near the center of Kansas in Kinsley, and I directed Chris and Bill northward towards I-70 at Hays. \u00a0Development here in the Hays area looked like a sure bet in the next few hours. \u00a0But, I was intrigued by another play to our northeast, near the KS\/NE border. \u00a0This latter area had much better backed winds (compared to southerly at Hays), and slightly better (lower) temp\/dew point spreads. \u00a0And, it was near the warm front. \u00a0I suspect that some CAMs (convective-allowing models) helped me to decide on this day, but I can’t recall! \u00a0I blew off the triple-point play and continued north to Phillipsburg. \u00a0By this time a storm was developing to our NE, maybe a county distant, in the vicinity of Red Cloud, Nebraska. \u00a0I was a little worried that it might zoom off to the east a little too quickly and that we would have problems catching up.<\/p>\n

We gunned it east to Lebanon and then north on 281 to Red Cloud. \u00a0The timing worked out perfectly, as we came right up to the storm base of this new supercell!<\/p>\n\n\t\t