{"id":38878,"date":"2023-05-10T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=38878"},"modified":"2023-12-30T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:46:25","slug":"may-10-2023-selden-ks-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2023\/05\/10\/may-10-2023-selden-ks-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 10, 2023 Selden KS Supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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May 9) Start: Kiowa, KS\/lunch: Yur Place in Hardtner\/End: Burlington, CO\/370 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 10) Start: Burlington\/lunch: fast food in Limon\/end: Wakeeney, KS\/541 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First, a brief look at the dud chase day of May 9th:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 9 was looking like a decent chase day, as SPC showed an enhanced slight risk and a 5 percent tornado risk for central Kansas. We scampered north from Kiowa to the Hoisington area and found a somewhat discrete storm forming on a pronounced outflow boundary. The boundary was coming off of a bowing line of continuing morning elevated storms in NW and NC Kansas. See this MCD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPC-Mesoscale-Discussion-744<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And if you haven’t figured it out yet…since this entry is for May 10 and not May 9, the 9th must have been a big DUD. And it was. May 9 does not deserve its own entry on Stormbruiser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our storm near Hoisington and then our storm WNW of LaCrosse were quickly undercut, and the tornado threat was zero. There was a little semi-impressive low-level structure. The dumb morning activity had done its damage, and this undercut junk was not for me. We went west and NW into western KS, hoping for a miracle in the sunshine. There was a weak attempt at something near Scott City but it fizzled. I took a screenshot of the radar east of Dodge City at 6:09 p.m. CDT. Note that the boundary is well south of the severe storms. It might have been worthwhile to see how those storms evolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So let’s get to the better chase day, May 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

SPC-Mesoscale-Discussion-754<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Surface Map for 3 p.m. MDT on May 10 above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video of the Oberlin supercell<\/a> during the “tornado warning” phase by TT guide Chris Gullikson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The corridor to consider today extended from about Denver to Fort Morgan to McCook and Norton. SPC had it cranked up to a 10 percent tornado risk, with an enhanced risk of severe. Really nice easterly upslope flow was in extreme NW KS, with a surface low and convergence along I-70 from about Limon to Flagler. Intital storms would be out west, near Denver and Las Chance. We headed that way for lunch, but then I came to my senses and went back into NW KS, where instability and tornado prospects looked quite a bit better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strong storm or two developed to our southeast as we headed east on U.S. 36 in the vicinity of Atwood. A tornado warning was issued along our way between Atwood and Oberlin, but that seemed to be a nothing burger. We continued east to Oberlin and dropped south, stopping about halfway to Selden. A beautifully sculpted supercell was due south!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first six images below are looking south. A tornado occurred with the cell, near the western fringe of the core. We saw some suspicious activity but were not certain whether we saw the tornado or not. I zoomed in for some front-end structure shots to our southeast, and then we were forced back north to 36 and east to Norcatur and Norton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The severe storm morphed into a big, wet and nasty HP. We stayed with the same stuff south and southwest of Norton for a while, but it was more of a messy outflowfest towards sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 9) Start: Kiowa, KS\/lunch: Yur Place in Hardtner\/End: Burlington, CO\/370 miles May 10) Start: Burlington\/lunch: fast food in Limon\/end: Wakeeney, KS\/541 miles First, a… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"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":[86,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-86","7":"category-supercells","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38949,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878\/revisions\/38949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}