September 3rd Hailstorm

A good cold front came down Wednesday night promising cool fall weather and a lot of hail.

I started watching the storms form near Salina and move to the south. By the time it hit McPherson it was going to be a not nice storm.

We were seeing prominent mamatus clouds from meaning the atmosphere was turbulent.

and the storm was coming our way.

there was an interesting feature with some SLCs.

other than that, a lot of gray.

I followed a lowering north of the city.

then the hail came. Lots of hail.

Then a nasty round 2 but that was all rain.

Some light damage around the house.

But a tree did fall in the neighborhood. Maybe struck by lightning.

We'll see what second season brings.

April 30th, 2024 Storms

I have to applaud the HRRR system for nailing this storm. There was a couple brief tornado warnings near Wichita due to radar indicated rotation. Lots of lightning and around 1 inch hail.

Possibility of storms later today.

Thunderstorm initiation around 3pm.     

Brief wall clouds and lightning

Mammatus clouds show turbulence in the atmosphere.

Crepuscular rays as the sunset shines through the clouds.