04-11-05 Washington, KS Cell near Surface Low

This cell went up near Marysville, KS just NNE of the surface low. The cell split and then intensified dumping large amounts of up to golf ball sized hail just ESE of Washington. The snow plows quickly came out to clear 36. The base looked interesting for a while with a decent wall cloud but as the cell moved NNE into Nebraska where the sruface winds were strong out of the North, it quickly transitioned to an outflow dominant cell with a large, gorgeous shelf cloud.

Chase log and photographs copyright Melanie Metz and Peggy Willenberg 2005 Twistersisters.com

Looking North at updraft base just East of Washington, KS after dumping large amounts of hail.

Updraft

Updraft base NE of Washington, KS

Hail on Hwy 36 after plows cleared the roads.

Golf ball sized hail stone (out of focus!)

Mixed hail

Looking North at updraft base

Looking south at the advancing shelf cloud in southern Nebraska south of Beatrice.

Old building in Kansas