Pecos Hank | TORNADO AT NIGHT - Extremely Close to Kansas Wedge @PecosHank | Uploaded May 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
3 tornadoes including one huge wedge tornado were witnessed near Plains Kansas this evening after dark. for licensing contact hankschyma@yahoo.com
The first tornado was a brief rope tornado southwest of Plains KS. The second was a large wedge just north of town. The tornado dropped north of Plains on the north side of highway 160. Rain wrapped around the tornado obscuring it from view and eventually cleared revealing an elephant trunk rope out. Base velocity revealed an impressive couplet as the tornado moved northeast towards Dodge City. Thick fog set in be we continued to chase hoping that the inflow notch would be clear... It was. The unpaved road grid was too muddy to drive on so we waited for the tornado couplet to cross highway 23 a couple miles to our north. Just prior to crossing the couplet dissipated and it appears the tornado did as well. A couple scans later revealed a new circulation on the east side of 23. Here we were able to get a few glimpses of the third tornado, a large conish elephant trunk. RFD surged in shortly after hiding the tornado. Our chase was over.
3 tornadoes including one huge wedge tornado were witnessed near Plains Kansas this evening after dark. for licensing contact hankschyma@yahoo.com
The first tornado was a brief rope tornado southwest of Plains KS. The second was a large wedge just north of town. The tornado dropped north of Plains on the north side of highway 160. Rain wrapped around the tornado obscuring it from view and eventually cleared revealing an elephant trunk rope out. Base velocity revealed an impressive couplet as the tornado moved northeast towards Dodge City. Thick fog set in be we continued to chase hoping that the inflow notch would be clear... It was. The unpaved road grid was too muddy to drive on so we waited for the tornado couplet to cross highway 23 a couple miles to our north. Just prior to crossing the couplet dissipated and it appears the tornado did as well. A couple scans later revealed a new circulation on the east side of 23. Here we were able to get a few glimpses of the third tornado, a large conish elephant trunk. RFD surged in shortly after hiding the tornado. Our chase was over.
