June 12 Storm Chase

10:15 PM Update: It sounds like we'll finally be calling it a night, currently just about to turn northwest towards Wichita. Enjoyed the show just to the east of Wichita, beautiful striated storm that I believe I captured with some lightning illumination. Some other nice lightning strikes throughout the night, even now as we look towards our west/southwest as another storm has formed and is looking impressive. While sitting ~7 miles east of Rock, KS we did see several power flashes to our northwest, at this time its' unknown what damage was caused and what caused it. This will be our last day for this trip, looking to head home tomorrow...

8:20 PM Update: Hanging out between Emporia and Wichita, watching the continuous line have its' fun. The highlight of the day has likely been the light show, in which several people have gotten great shots from including Tony (already posted on his blog). We'll likely end up spending the night in Wichita, with a hopeful view of lightning to continue our fun. One thing that I will have to post is a lot of panoramics of shelfs, and a few general storm bases with wall clouds.

5:10 PM Update: Storms have fired and we are now on the chase with storms becoming severe warned already... Heading west out of Emporia.

4:45 PM Update: Sitting in Emporia, KS; awaiting the storms to finally root in and begin to become severe/tornadic. Currently watching a broken line, or line, taking shape just to the west of us... Getting everything going in the cars and then we'll be ready to head out and hopefully catch something a bit better than yesterday.

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10:45 AM Update: Packing stuff up to leave from Lincoln, NE; believe we'll be taking roads down out of Nebraska City, NE and thus landing ourselves around Yates Center, KS by 3:30 PM. More updates are possible if we stop for lunch, otherwise once we arrive in the likely sunny Yates Center!

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9:45 AM Update: Although initially on the trip it looked like this would be a one-day chase event, with the very small chance of a Tuesday storm when we went into southern South Dakota, it has turned into a little more. Today's forecast took a nice turn into being a little more active, especially for the threat of tornadoes today in southeastern Kansas. The entire group is ready for an actual supercell that is not embedded within some long line, and one that we can actually obtain data on. That is the goal for today, leaving Lincoln, NE sometime around 11 AM to head south into Kansas and begin one last day of chasing before a ridge sets in and the TWISTEX crew will likely be down for a while. More updates later as the forecast becomes more defined, as well as our route...