7 Tornado Interceptions During Kansas Outbreak

Tour Type: Tour 2
Chase Date: 2007 APR 23
Target Area: Protection, Kansas
Images: 11

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What a day this turned out to be!  Not only did the folks on Tour 2 get a closeup and personal meeting with a tornado on the 21st of April, but just 2 days later they saw 7 tornadoes in Southwestern Kansas on the 23rd.   

The day presenting many challenges with a few different interesting target locations, either in the Texas Panhandle or in Southwestern, KS.  The day required intense monitoring of every little detail throughout the afternoon, my original target was the Texas panhandle, but it became evident my early afternoon that it was the wrong play and we repositioned on the second area of interest in southwestern Kansas and northwestern Oklahoma.

Our first storms of the day were intercepted near Buffalo, Oklahoma where we witnessed our first brief tornadoes of the day  (I believe there were three out of this storm) just to the north.  That cell died out, a new cell formed on its southern flank and we shot north to meet the cell as it crossed into Kansas due to limited road options.  

When the cell finally caught up to us it went crazy and produced tornado after tornado for a show that lasted several hours.   We caught a total of at least 7 tornadoes between these two supercells and spent much of the early evening hours photographing lightning out of this thing as it moved away from us to the northeast.

Overall - an incredible day for an already incredible tour!

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