June 13th, 2007 Ashland, Kansas Tornadic Supercell
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 21:02 Written by Roger Hill
June 13th ended up being a better chase day than I thought it would be. We started in Valentine, Nebraska after our South Dakota chase the day before and had to blast south quickly to get into position for this day. A boundary, decent shear, decent moisture and instability would set the stage for what we thought would be landspouts this day. Instead, we got a northwest moving supercell that produced baseball sized hail and a brief tornado near Ashland, Kansas.
Check out the photos below. Click on them for a bit larger image. These are all video stills and some not too clear due to constantly moving with the situation.
Cool white funnel formed as a cell interacted with the boundary. It did not touch down. |
Funnel becomes a near earring funnel! |
Hail to golfball size falls from supercell near Ashland. |
Very low and rotating wall cloud. I thought this might produce a decent tornado. It did not. |
Another meso to our north produces a brief pencil tornado. It was on the ground for 2 minutes. |
This was 7 minutes after the previous photo, a bit wider to gain perspective. |
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