A warm front draped along northern Kansas. Lots of moisture hung around and the combination of the two caused severe storms to fire up western and central Kansas. For several days the storm outlook talked about an energetic high atmosphere that promised large to giant-sized hail. What interested me was the increase to 15% in the late afternoon convective outlook. Deep layer shear (winds twisting with height) and increasing lower-level winds increased the tornado probability.
We continued south through Lyons as the storm moved a little more southernly. The town sounded their tornado sirens and we stopped at a couple places for a quick bite. Most of the people were a little too freaked out by the sirens to give us food. We went further south and watched the storm start to fall a part. A lot of odd things happening where it looked like it was falling into a squal line. Then condense into a wall cloud, then everything softened and fell apart. We gave up on the storms and headed back towards town. Ultimately it was a very busy weather day that ended the tornado drought
The end of May is here and we are probably going to start warming up quickly. Chase season will probably be moving on soon. As a note. I recently started using my new phone for photos and have been pleasantly surprised with how well they have come out.