April 29, 2010 Washington, Kansas Tornadic Supercell
Last Updated on Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:56 Written by Roger Hill
April 29th took us to central/northern Kansas to play a boundary. Moisture was not optimal that day, but lift and shear were great. A supercell formed southwest of Cuba, Kansas and looked pretty respectable. It had a decent nonrotating wall cloud for a long time. Finally as it moved north of Washington, a new lowering started spinning rapidly, eventually putting down a brief tornado as it came directly overhead blasting us with strong WARM RFD winds. The wall cloud passed directly overhead giving us a moment of intensity hoping it would not drop a tornado until it passed us. It was on the ground off and on for about 3 minutes before disippating.
Check out this video time lapse:
Left split from our tornadic supercell, looking west from Cuba, KS.
Mature supercell with wall cloud and intense FFD looking west.
Tornado. Brief tornado under funnel 5 miles north of Washington, KS.
Ghostly shelf cloud of the supercell approaching Fairbury, NE a little while later.
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