North Central Kansas Storms June 20, 2010

This storm started near Stockton, KS, where the shelf cloud came rolling off to the east. Later in the video, we jump on a tornado warned cell in Jewell County, which ends up producing a rain wrapped EF2 tornado in Superior, Nebraska.

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Science & Technology

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• Stockton
• Kansas
• Storms
• June
• 20
• 2010
• Shelf
• Cloud
• Rooks
• County
• Severe
• Storm

[WickedTornado]

This is making me crazy. At the end of the vid...the nws wx. radio is saying where a tornado or severe storm is located....and I can't make it out. It sounds like 19 miles from GEOPIA or something. HELP!!

[wthrlbguy]

@WickedTornado The station is KNCK 94.9 from Concordia and the guy is saying Concordia. It took me a while to figure it out myself.

[wthrlbguy]

I agree with the small or "mini tornado alleys" theory. Try North central KS and South central NE for example. Jewell/Republic/Thayer counties always seem to get something, and then you get the Ellis/Trego/Graham/Rooks county hot spot too. Not sure why, but I've noticed that for years.

[WickedTornado]

@jbtornado Sorry I didn't see your post in here until now. Yeah, I was sitting in Formoso. What a bizarre / time warp place THAT is. They'll never know how lucky they were. Where were you sitting in Jewell Co? Or...were you mobile? I don't know if you experienced it, but when that rain began wrapping as I was in Formoso...I was on the phone with the NWS / Hastings, and have NEVER felt such hot inflow. It was literally like a furnace door being opened. It scared me sooo badly, haha.

[WickedTornado]

@wthrlbguy Yes, those mini-alleys just twist my mind! Why...why...why? If all else is equal...the terrain, altitude, water table, etc. why the same areas so often? Places like Grand Island Nebraska, Last Chance and Cheyenne Wells Colorado, Okla City...there are so many! I do hope prior to my passing on...that an answer is found.

[WickedTornado]

Grunt, do you live around that area (North Central Kansas?)

[WickedTornado]

@GruntJackson Man, that area around Downs / Portis, etc. seems to be a magnet for naders every year or so. For all the years that I've been so heavily interested in tornadoes, (50 of my 57 yrs.) and especially tornadic frequency statistics....the one big question I have tried to ascertain personally is WHY particular areas get hit all the time. I'm referring to small areas...not just big ones like "Oklahoma". I call 'em mini-alleys within tornado alley. Is it geographic, soil temps, etc. etc?

[GruntJackson]

@WickedTornado Just outside Downs. There was a car that got hit ahead of us too.

[WickedTornado]

@GruntJackson Where was it that you got caught up the spinup, Grunt?

[jbtornado]

hey nader, we were on that storm as well as it went into jewell county and were right by the rotation as it was wrapped in rain.. Right after that storm went through Randall, we ended up hitting a deer and saw tons of flooded fields and county roads in North Central Kansas