Day 6 of our 2016 tour had a very high likelihood of storms and tornados- a 15% risk was issued which is very unusual.

However the conditions were not favourable for discreet supercells to form instead lots of storms were possible across a large swathe of the Mid West which made chasing very challenging.

We spent most of the morning heading North and West around a large storm system in Central Kansas. Severe storm and tornado warnings were going up all over the place, but we tried to stay disciplined and avoid the draw for the early storms to wait for something better to fire up East of the dry line and West of the out flow boundry the central storm system created.

The western edge of the central Kansas storm system, not sure I've ever seen such an angry sky!

View as we skirted West the storms towards our target area for the day.

We kept heading South before eventually finding several possible severe warned storms to chase. We spent almost 30 minutes chasing a storm tracking North towards Dodge City before deciding it was moving too quickly for us and targeting a new storm to the South into the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Target for the day

Chasing this storm became as much about road selection as anything else- masive hail was reported so we had to make sure we didn’t head into it at the wrong point or we could have been in trouble!

This was a good sign we were in the right place.

Shortly after this our storm was tornado warned. And we were in exactly the right spot, just north of a town called Ashland which had its Tornado sirens blaring!

Tornado warned

After this storm moved north we called it a day and headed for Dodge City.

However we were still treated to some stunning views on the way home.

Sunset in Southern Kansas

A perfect end to a fantastic week of chasing or is it!