June 22, 2014

Bird City, KS Left-Moving Storm

We intercepted the left-moving split of a storm that developed south of Bird City, Kansas. we approached from the west, looked at the slightly healthier left-mover storm of the pair, and then decided that we'd rather look at the right-mover (southern storm of the pair). As soon as we did that, driving slowly over newly wet gravel/clay roads, it died, so we drove northwest to look at some other storms before settling in at Yuma, CO.

Approaching the storm from the west of Bird City, KS. A storm split is in progress.

The left split (left-mover) is closer and on the left. The flanged updraft base of the right-mover is farther away and on the right.

Updraft base of the left-mover.

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