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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 00:22 Written by Roger Hill

2005

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June 30 was a surprise day! Things did not look that great to start, but intense instability along with an old outflow boundary would provide the focal point for severe thunderstorms. Elevated storms developed during the morning and early afternoon, followed by surface based storms along outflow boundaries later that day. We raced east from Wichita to catch this beast as it became an intense supercell. It produced at least one if not more tornadoes. One tornado was reported after we left it with a damage path of 500 yards!

As we caught up to this supercell, a large white funnel was evident (looking east). I wish the shot was clearer as we were driving trying to catch up to it.	Funnel dissipates. I cannot confirm touchdown or not here.
We drove south and east and finally got in front of this monster. Golf ball to baseball sized hailstones were all over the road as we got south of the core.	A shot of the updraft base, complete with clear slot. The storm was tornado warned at this time, and for good reason.
A view of the forward flank core and vault region of the storm.	A VERY intense hail core develops with rapidly rising scud.
An intense rotating lowering develops.