june 12 2005 chase

	Departed KC at about 430am and "intercepted" a severe MCS along the KS turnpike about 2 hours later.




	After a data stop in Shamrock, headed down to the Turkey TX area in time to check out some developing storms along the dryline (340pm).
	The storms were poorly organized and struggled for quite some time.
	Dropped down on Highway 70 toward Matador as cells began increasing farther south along the dryline. Continued onward into northern Dickens county and intercepted a very beefy supercell and possible brief tornado (506pm)
	510pm
	519pm - from the looks of this updraft, the low-level thermodynamic environment was incredibly sweet ahead of the dryline for this event
	534pm - waffled back and forth between this storm and the developing tail-end charlie in Garza county. This LP storm was in between the two.

	559pm - finally committed and made it down into northern Kent county to see the beast of an updraft
	600pm
	601pm
	602pm - cloud base motions increasing
	605pm - a large stovepipe tornado develops and persists for a couple minutes

	622pm - I underestimate the distance and movement of the storm and, unsure I can beat it across the highway, I head east and south
	634pm - I come back out of the rain again north of Jayton to view an incredible "wedding-cake" HP
	636pm
	638pm - thought this was the general "interest area" due to massive amounts of rapidly condensing inflow
	640pm
	654pm - continue southward toward Jayton and a tornado "comes out of the rain" on the hind end of the updraft

	655pm

	I abandon the storm and head south for an ongoing supercell, reaching it about an hour later in Fisher county TX (west of Hamlin). To say the storm was highly electrified would be an understatement.
	754pm - obvious HP/outflowish characteristics
	759pm
	803pm
	804pm
	805pm
	823pm
	827pm - sun sets behind a line of chasers ~100 cars long
	a nice sunset beneath the storm's backsheared anvil