6/1/2014 - Ashland, KS Supercell

Began another short jaunt to the Plains very, very early Sunday morning. We targeted western Kansas, but continually shifted our target southward as we got closer. After driving through a couple hours of elevated convection along the Kansas-Nebraska border, we finally broke into the "hot" air just north of I-70. We continued south into the messy setup, latching onto some severe convection near Dighton, KS. We enjoyed the scene, but eventually turned our attention to a tail-end storm near Ulysses, KS -- naturally, as we finally got ahead of this storm, we killed it. Ah, but not to be deterred after hundreds of miles of driving, we continued to focus on convection to our east, flanking a line of rapidly intensifying storms north of Meade, KS.  It was fascinating to watch this convection cross a boundary and intensify as the LLJ ramped up. We raced east and south, finally getting ahead of the storms near US 160-283 west of Ashland, KS. The line put on a hell of a show in the evening light. We continued to jump a few miles down the road as the line pushed south. Just north of Englewood, KS, a storm pinched off from the line and became a nice supercell in perfect evening light. Just a spectacular scene as the sun set on us. We grabbed some gas in Buffalo after shooting lighting for a bit. Overnighted in Woodward, OK.

Scene lapses.