Ryan and I got on the tornado warned storm that was south of Hutchinson and followed all the way through Wichita. We got on it right as it went tornado warned, which obviously was exciting.
The storm was never terrribly impressive, but it did have a striated mesocyclone at times with a nice feeder band. There were also a few lowering with decent rotation and vertical motion, but nothing that ever got close enough to the ground for you to take it too seriously.
It was the only tornado warned storm in this part of the state until they later warned the storm south of us so I feel pretty good about our forecast and chase.
I was streaming video back to KWCH for the first time today so they used my video live on air several times when there were wall clouds and nice looking mesocyclones. I got to do quite a few call ins too which was nice, because it’s been a while sine I got on air. I was a little rusty, but did OK. The cell coverage sucked out there and I kept dropping my calls and my stream would go down. I have a cellular amplipher that is supposed to boost my signal and I swear it doesn’t do a damn thing. I’m going to try to send it back. It’s ridiculous that I am dropping calls 15 miles west of Wichita. I dropped two calls when I was live on air reporting on the storm. I am not really happy about that. I’m going to have to call the amp guy and check with verizon too because the aircard kept going into this dormant mode and everything would shut down. It’s like it just decides it wants to take a break for a while. I need a new laptop and the new equipment is coming next year. My stuff is getting outdated.

I’ll probably post a long range forecast tonight or tomorrow morning.