April 28

Me, my friend Tristen (center), and his friend Parker (right), eating lunch at school while Tristen and I discuss the upcoming chase.

Clearing comes in at 1:40 pm with the low level jet hanging on from the morning.

Spending those moneys...🫠

Heading north on I-29 to base out of St. Joseph, MO as our initial target area.

Enjoying some munch munch before the day kicks off.

Radar presentation at : pm as supercell storms erupt along the dryline in Kansas.

Anvil of the storms quickly blossoms as storms continue to explode.

Western skies darken as the anvil enlarges.

Mammatus clouds begin to appear as the anvil stretches overhead.

Mammatus clouds loom to the north and northeast underneath the anvil as far as the eye can see.

Dying thunderstorm to the northwest 

Tristen capturing mammatus clouds.

Impressive updraft and anvil structure of the main supercell.

Intracloud lightning flash with a cg reveling base/shelf cloud structure.

A larger positive bolt jumps down in the FFD of the storm. 

The storm begins to draw closer, and its core noticeably intensifies despite the outflow boundary.

I give a live update to the KCSSW Facebook Group regarding the severe weather threat.

Anvil crawler lightning jumps overhead between the updraft tower and the anvil.

6: pm radar presentation of the supercell just before we reposition.

Massive anvil cloud spreads ahead as we bail east.

Wild overhead anvil lightning as we move to keep with the storm.

The severe storm continues into Missouri, but its updraft stays linear, and the hook does not curl around.

Met storm chaser Austin Jones and his friend while stopping to watch the storm approach for a bit.

Anvil crawler lightning overhead.

TDWR radar scan of the supercell with a rain-loaded RFD after we reposition to the east.

Visual of the storm's mainly outflow dominant updraft region backlit by lightning!

A decaying cluster of formerly severe separate cells in Kansas moves into the Kansas City metro area with gusty winds and lightning.