March 14

The severe weather graphic for Trojan TV News on the morning of the 14th.

Extremely unsettling moments as the storms race off to the east while I'm stuck in KCMO traffic, falling behind. 

After escaping the Kansas City metro, I come up on some remanent showers of the squall line.

5:08 pm radar presentation. The squall line has been rather anticlimactic up until this point apart from severe bow heading towards Pilot Grove, MO. Noting the better cells coming out of southern Missouri, I decide to continue further east to Columbia.

As I catch back up with the squall line, I wind up in its outflow, where severe winds blow leaves around and throw a cardboard box at me.

After arriving in Columbia at 6 pm, immediately blast south to get on a severe storm that is showing signs of becoming supercellular

Absurd satellite imagery of the blockbuster pressure system so far through the afternoon.

6:02 pm radar of my target storm.

A view south on Hwy 63 of the anvil from the storm. Note the orange hue of the clear sky just along the edge of the anvil.

Lowering underneath the storm's updraft base comes into view.

Elongated shelf/wall cloud hybrid appears underneath the storm with lightning as it approaches.

Smoke from a small fire, likely started by lightning, to my west.

6:26 radar of the intense storm passing by.

The storm passes just to my north with the lowering and forward flank downdraft clearly visible. I quickly drop south to position on a new supercell shortly after this.

6:32 pm radar while I begin heading south towards Jefferson City, MO.

The storm begins to come into view.

I pull into the fire station in the Tebbetts, MO township to finally get out and observe the storm with two fire fighters watching it. A funnel appears to begin to poke down. 

Radar presentation of the supercell just after 7 pm. Note the RFD surge beginning to intensify.

RFD clear slot of the storm as it begins to surge to our north.

The storm continues to the north, with the rotation intensifying behind the rain.

The storm goes tornado warned.

Snacks with Ryan Hall Y'all on before driving home.

Surreal view of the moon and nighttime sky with the dusty, smokey haze.

Eerily smokey sky with the Kansas City skyline with a now very strong smell of smoke.