Day 32: Grasping at Straws
That was the name of the game on June 10. We were told the only real targetable region was in southwestern Kansas during the morning weather briefing. It was not known whether or not storms would initiate due to morning precipitation and overcast skies for most of the day. Finally skies began to clear in earnest and the atmosphere became weakly unstable. There was enough of a lifting mechanism to generate storms late in the afternoon, but they never could really organize into supercells. They seemed to be more multicelluar storms that continued on through the evening through outflow. This outflow can be seen by shelf clouds on each storm as we tried to collect data in the evening. Because there was no discrete cells, the sounding teams called off operations early and headed to our hotel in Dodge City. The drive back was quite interesting as the storms developed into a large complex at sunset that made for a slow go and some cool photos.
This was what the storm looked like when the Armada was obtaining data.
Shelf Cloud!
More shelf cloud
One of the brightest rainbows I have ever seen.. Its also a double rainbow!!
