[MCARC] Tornado - 2.53 miles WNW of Beattie

[Kenneth Kopp]

In the heat of the moment, Topeka NWS didn't think it was a tornadic
and did not issue a tornado warning.  I thought the couplet and
rotation on radar imagery were so clear, I actually made a recording
of it:

http://qsl.net/ak0a/files/IMG_0404.GIF

We were getting ground strokes in Topeka, some 70 miles ahead of this
main line of storms.

Ken



On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:11 PM Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
>
> * On 2017 19 Jun 15:37 -0500, Kenneth Kopp wrote:
> > A powerful complex of storms rolled through northeastern Kansas during
> > the overnight hours of June 16 and 17, 2017. In addition to producing
> > very strong winds and hail up to the size of baseballs, one
> > short-lived tornado was documented in central Marshall County:
> >
> > http://www.weather.gov/top/170616_summary
>
> I'm not surprised as intense as that particular portion of the storm
> front looked from here.  That also is the track the two previous tornado
> warnings in Nebraska were on.  The lighting from that portion of the
> storm was intense will multiple ground strokes.  Until my power went
> off, I didn't see that any tornado warning was issued for MS county.
>
> Fortunately for me, the cell stopped producing ground strokes a ways
> north of here as the complex had weakened some by 10:30.  That didn't
> spare me the wind damage, though.  The tree debris and other mess has
> been cleaned up and the 80/160m doublet is back in place.  Just lost a
> dog bone insulator out of the deal.
>
> BTW, congrats on your new call!
>
> 73, Nate
>
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