Another Kansas supercell – June 12, 2008

We left Newton and drifted east with a plan of slow-rolling through a few small towns that we haven’t visited before, and figured we were already in as good of position as any for afternoon storm development.  We took the road less traveled and saw some country that very few people see anymore, including a stretch west of Madison that took us to some places like Teterville and Kenbro (Texaco Hill).  We went a little over an hour without passing or being passed by another car.  In Madison, we stopped by the old rail depot (oldest wooden railroad depot in Kansas) that has been turned into the historical society and talked with Mrs. Isch who took time during her lunch break to tell us stories of Madison’s past.  Afterward, we drove north through Emporia and spent a little time in Americus.  Storms actually started forming quicker than I expected and we cut our “small town jumping” short and moved west to the area north of Strong City/Cottonwood Falls.  Several storms formed and were uninteresting for the most part, before a supercell formed/became discrete and started rotating strongly west of Cottonwood Falls.  Events in When there is an imbalance or deficiency, then it affects their relationship. levitra cheapest Kids don’t put down their ideas; instead, they jump in with wild enthusiasm, excited by viagra online mastercard their originality. The best way to save your marital relationship when you suffer cialis price in canada from ED is communication. This can be extremely unpleasant for the man since the issue denies him from giving and having any sort of physical joy and it can harm cialis de prescription the immune system of the body. a year of firsts continued at this point.  We were watching and shooting video of this storm when a BNSF freight train hit the breaks next to us.  I’ve had a lot of people come up and talk to me before, but never have I had a train stop and the engineer and conductor get out and run across a highway to me before.  They told me that their dispatcher said there was a tornado coming and they needed to shut down and find shelter.  I told them that their dispatcher had in fact, stopped them IN FRONT OF the storm, and if I was them, I’d jump in and haul it east.  I don’t know if they relayed that information to their dispatcher or not, but a short time later the black smoke was pouring out and they were on their way.  Our storm went on to try and produce a tornado about three times without success, at least as far as we could tell.  Our route back south ahead of the storms took us back through our adopted town of Madison before we made it into El Dorado for the evening.

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