re: 5/6 Oklahoma/Kansas severe weather - High Risk- PDS Tor Watch

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Cell closing in on Hutchinson, Ks is trying to get its act together

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I spent the better part of two hours on the back of this one tonight. Did something really weird just south of Gypsum. It looked like it was trying to be a funnel cloud but it wasn't rotating and there wasn't anything definitely attached to the base but there were a bunch of super low hanging clouds real close together in the classic cone pattern. Only stayed that way for maybe 45 seconds but I had never seen anything act like that before. Kind of looked like someone trying to make a tornado out of Legos. It tried to form a bit of a wall cloud by Abilene when they put a warning on it but it never really had its act together very long. Still it was probably as good of a strom as any to chase in Kansas today.

Every once in a while I'll poke around in a neighboring state but I'm usually not real crazy about it. I've lived in Kansas my whole life and I have a pretty good idea which county roads you can go down and which you can't. I don't have that knowledge for any other state and it makes a difference. Even tonight a county road that is normally a good shortcut to take had a bridge out for construction and was closed which made me take an unplanned detour through the residential section of Abilene.