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May 22nd, 2007 Hill City, Kansas Tornadic Supercells

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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 20:44 Written by Roger Hill

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May 22nd brought us to north central Kansas to play along the dryline. By mid afternoon it became apparent that north central Kansas would become the focal point for strong instability, good convergence, good shear and fair moisture. Enough to generate a few supercells, one of which became tornadic.  We had great positioning for them all, and at one point in time we had 3 in our view at once. Quite a sight! The photo above, was from the tornadic storm just southwest of Hill City. This storm produced two tornadoes, both of which were fairly brief in nature, less than 5 minutes each. Check out the photos below. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image. Enjoy!

 

 

Beautiful supercell with lightning strike. Looking southwest. It was tornado warned at this time.

 

Another shot moments later as it continued to intensify.

 

WOW!! What can be said of the structure of this monster supercell. As textbook as they come! Beautiful!!!

 

Another shot with a different lens for a wider view. Simply stunning structure!!! Nice updraft, vault region, mid level striations, wet RFD, and it just doesn't get much better than this!

 

Inside the core starts to be seen here. Nice lowering.

 

Tornado! Tapered cone touches down for a couple minutes. Looking west/northwest.

 

Tornado #1 dissipates as wall cloud and funnel fade away.

 

Supercell moves north and so do we. Second tornado forms. Slender elephant trunk only stayed on the ground for about 3-4 minutes.

 

Another shot as condensation reaches the ground.

 

A second "mothership" supercell forms and produced hail to softball sized. We encountered golfball size hail and got out of the way.

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