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VORTEX2: June 2, 2009 - 23 days. Operations provided for in the field (not V2): HP supercell.
Miles traveled today: 546. Total miles traveled: 7457 .

When we hear the words of David Dowell that tells us that today is not caccierà but we will move westward ahead of the weekend which promises to be very active in terms of weather certainly not the audience cheers. Last night before leaving for dinner it was proposed un'alzataccia and the possibility of an early departure at 7 am to be able to be in the afternoon in the Texas panhandle where the conditions for the development of supercells would be the best. All yesterday were a little 'excited by this new perspective, but at 10 pm Unfortunately, we had been notified of the decision of the great leaders that there was no alarm and no advance travel 7 hours to the south.

the morning so there is still a bit of regret about the decision today because today is the day finally classified as a travel day, however, when there might be some chance of interception in southern Kansas, perhaps marginal and apparently not comparable to the present conditions in Texas.
But what happens after the end of the briefing is deeply
to determine the trend of the day: three of the four probes and two other vehicles under the guidance of Tim Marshall get permission to leave the convoy and try to get off to the south of Kansas looking for some opportunità.E so while the entire cabinet take the direction of Interstate 70 in Hays, the five vehicles take the road south, the direction of Wichita, also followed by the TIV and
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The day is enriched by a lunch "All you can eat" buffet at Golden Corral in Wichita and a wonderful visit to the office of the National Weather Service city \u200b\u200bwhere we have the opportunity to participate in the briefing of several hours 14.The meteorologists on duty and the person you describe in detail the weather certainly confirming that there will be thunderstorms in the area. After the canonical picture memory group we head west puntanto the muzzles of our vehicles to Dodge City where he lives in the meantime had taken the first cumulonimbus.

In the path towards one of thunderstorms in Dodge City is transformed into a supercell and will soon appear in the first Thunderstorms Warning to everyone's surprise and also a report of a brief touchdown of a tornado a few dozen seconds. So here it is also triggered the tornado warning, including total disbelief. In the meantime, several Texas Thunderstorms Warning are active but still no Tornado Warning.

The entire armada of VORTEX2 is aimed at Colby in a travel day and we are experiencing one of the best hunting days of the whole project ... Pratt credere.Quando not reach a group of new cells take the form of a few dozen miles east
cells Dodge City in the convergence zone between the ground the winds that blow from the northeast to the north and the south-east in 'area where we are. The interaction then the outflow boundary of the first cell provides a further boost to the updraft of storms that begin to show signs of inequivocabli rotazione.Seguiamo very closely the movements of our time that within a few tens of minutes is transformed into a storm supercellulare also starting to move to the right of the mean motion of other cells. The sky almost serene south-east of the supercell provides fuel to the current entrants though not particularly strong support for a long period of time, the supercell.
In a short time a tornado warning is issued for our target. The vision of dell'updraft rotating base is great and the turn is so obvious that sometimes we expect something more to happen, the formation of a tornado is not so at this point escludere.Grazie to remain for a good road network good hour in contact with supercell that gradually transforms into a HP (high precipitation supercell).

color very dark clouds accompany the bands hail characterized by shades ranging from white to verdognelo. At times the wallcloud tend to drop dramatically giving us more excitement to the east of Sylvia. At the same time there's a strong report with hail the size of grains of about 4 cm in diameter and wind gusts up to 110 km / h. We can see the clear slot and end up inside the cage of the bear while a number of cloud-ground lightning blue run down from the base of the cloud.

With persistence and the firm in its intent today 14 people on board five submissions have experienced one of the best days of the entire season. For all this, but there is a price to pay and the bill comes after dinner: three and a half hour journey to cover the 250 miles that separate us from Colby, intended destination for the night.