Target: Lake Toronto, Kansas

July 7, 2016

Target: Lake Toronto, Kansas

A frustrating chase started out at home in Lee's Summit around 4 pm. An outflow boundary remained generally stationary across southeast Kansas all day, and convective models indicated storms would fire in that vicinity around sunset. Given ample instability and good shear I set out for Nevada, Missouri, which turned out to be too far east. A supercell formed near Matfield Green, Kansas and slowly moved south, producing at least two large tornadoes. Once the storm cut off my access to the west, I decided to call the chase off near Lake Toronto, considering the lack of any reasonable road options. The storm was putting down several CGs, so I decided to use the lake as a nice foreground for the lightning strikes. 

post event

• SPC Event Archive Page

• NWS Wichita Write up