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\"Kansas<\/a>

Kansas funnel cloud. Getting closer!<\/p><\/div>Its going to be a short update tonight as I’m back really late. I’ll put a more detailed write-up in the morning. The good news is that we picked the storm of the day pretty much, a tornadic supercell just south of Hays on the I70. The supercell dropped at least 2 tornadoes, one shortly after I got the shot below. Unfortunately our view was obscured by hail-containg RFD shortly after this shot was taken, so we didn’t get a better shot, but the tornado was confirmed on the Weather Channel, shortly after this shot was taken, as the storm passed close to Hays.<\/p>\n

\"Kansas<\/a>

Kansas funnel cloud. Getting closer!<\/p><\/div>\n

5:49pm<\/p>\n

\"risky\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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6:41pm<\/p>\n

\"notch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But I’m ecstatic. We got to experience a pretty mean RFD (rear flank downdraft), a funnel and I gained a load of experience around a pretty big supercell. We also have some footage of a much larger rotating updraft on Tony’s camcorder, which I will get on here once we get it off the tape.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is going to be massive – the strongest & probably most dangerous day of the trip. Strong tornadoes are possible. I will need a good night’s sleep! Tonight we are staying in Russell, on the I70. A 300 mile trip to Tulsa awaits tomorrow (changes in the models not withstanding). Yes, I have become Chandler from friends – I am off to Tulsa.<\/p>\n

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Its going to be a short update tonight as I’m back really late. I’ll put a more detailed write-up in the morning. The good news is that we picked the storm of the day pretty much, a tornadic supercell just south of Hays on the I70. The supercell dropped at least 2 tornadoes, one shortly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}