Tuesday 9th May 2023 - Kansas (Slight Risk)

We started today from Joplin and again with lack of 500mb flow we had a confluence boundary that would kick storms off around the Great Bend area of Central Kansas. SPC again went with 2% for the Tornado Risk and 30% for Large Hail and Wind. After a quick lunch in Wichita we connected with the storm of the day around Great Bend and saw a structured HP Supercell which was moving SSE. Lots of Dust was being ingested by this storm initially but once outflow dominant that same dust came piling out of the storm as well and boy was it cold with the temperature dropping to around 55f at times. These type of storm days are generally very low on the Tornado chances but make up for it with the layered structure and thats what we got for most of the day as the storm rolled back SSE towards the Pratt (KS) area. We let the storm go over us trying to get some hail but was unsuccessful on that front as well. Just west of Pratt with the sun setting we did get some lovely Mammatus being lit up in the setting sun.

The Outlook going forward looked much better with an area of Low Pressure moving from Colorado into the Great Lakes so finally some better Tornado chances coming up for the 2nd half of Tour 1.

Some Pictures of the HP Structure and Mammatus below.