Yet another silly chase decision. Hot hot air, and rather crappy shear down here leads to the above. The thing sat there forever, slowly getting smaller and smaller, never being structured all that nicely. At least I could sit here in this one spot and watch it RIGHT THERE for a good hour. The radar estimated storm total precip looked pretty darn funny on GR3. Since it wasn't moving, the totals looked like a big supercell...5-6 inch totals.

I left for home as it began to skinny up. It's now orphan anviling itself behind me. No storm left, just the anvil. Back in the day, before really easily accessed data, you'd see an anvil and drive towards it...not really knowing too well how the storm was doing. It was never fun to get to a sight like this, with no storm left....just the orphan anvil. Other storms were now erupting to the right/ne of it.

I took a route through KS up to Rulo. This was the setting sun, being "rained on" east of Rulo. Car headlights below.

Looked like the storm was trying to put out the sun...or something.

Lightning was great before it was dark out, not so great after.

Those are not rocks you see on the highway. This gravel road I'm on goes nowhere, but into a cornfield. Thousands of baby frogs were losing their lives here. I kept seeing things hopping that looked like grasshoppers on the road. Nope, they were baby frogs about the size of a quarter....thousands of them. What a mess that highway was. The ones you see on there are likely the live ones, the "others" just don't show up so well anymore.