Sunday, May 19, 2013

5/18/13: TWC



Today is Saturday and also a day that has been published for quite a few days now that this whole weekend is supposed to be the biggest severe weather outbreak of the season. This means that hundreds of chasers will be out on the roads making it harder and harder for us to move and harder to find good spots to storm watch. We ended up chasing in central Kansas west of Salina but did not see any tornadoes. We once again did see some good storm structure and experienced a couple firsts in my book. We witnessed wind gusts up near 70mph, a heat burst which is warm storm air flowing down out of the storm during the dying phase, and lastly, a fairly decent sized dust storm due to the very high wind gusts. The location we were sitting at while experiencing all of this was also the same spot where The Weather Channel was sitting. About 50 yards away from us was Dr. Greg Forbes and Mike Bettes doing a live shot. I had wanted to go introduce myself, but we had pulled out of the location before they were off camera. It was sort of depressing to see online and Facebook that only 30 miles to our south, the storm we had wanted to go chase after but couldn't because it cut us off of the route we were going to take and we did not want to punch through the heaviest part of the storm, had dropped an amazingly photogenic tornado in the middle of a field that hit only one house and injured nobody. Those are the tornadoes we want to see.



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