Today, we saw some widely-spaced intense tornadoes, but not a lot happened in the mid-Kansas area that was most highlighted, as all tornado reports are a long way from Wichita.
Tomorrow's outlook has an enhanced outlook for hail, wind, and tornadoes
The HRRR runs have several intense helicity tracks across the enhanced-moderate risk area. A little bit away from OKC and Wichita.
15% hatched tornado risk in the area of Wichita.
There may be quite a bit of interest on this forum in the next few days due to the multiple severe weather outlooks. Finally, I believe we will see lots of storm chaser action in the Plains, after a period of quiet weather for the region. Here are the next 4 days of outlooks.
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Seems like this might have been a tri-state tornado warned supercell at times (not quite the same three states as the famous Tri-State Tornado of 1925)
ongoing tornado!
Grand Forks was high 99, low 60. That breaks a high temperature record of 95, set back in 1906. Surprisingly, Grand Forks was 86 degrees on May 11th, 2023 and 85 degrees on May 11th 2024. These are nearly the maximum values since 1907.
Here's some proof that the snow clouds came from the east. The Kewanechee Valley cam is from about 8000ft on Trail Ridge Road, on the west side of the Park.
The snowbanks shown here melted down from about 9 ft high recently