[MCARC] Tornado - 2.53 miles WNW of Beattie

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2017 19 Jun 17:01 -0500, Kenneth Kopp wrote:
> 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

Nice catch.  I agree, they missed on that one.  Badly.

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

Yikes!

There was a lot of energy in that particular cell.  Visually it looked
like a mesocyclone with a round shelf cloud (curved horizontally around
the cell) as it came in.  We caught the west side of it with the high
north wind.  I saw that KMYZ reported a gust of 67 MPH at 2255 CDT.  As
it updates every 20 minutes, I presume that value is the highest gust
reported since the previous report.  The 2315 CDT report showed 45 MPH
gust, as I recall.

73, Nate

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