After one photogenic daylight tornado, this dryline-fired supercell puttered along in messier form, with multiple, seemingly disorganized updraft areas, for over an hour. Then near sunset, a series of tornadoes began, starting with a brief dirt whirl under the flanking line near Fowler. That soon was followed by this vortex near Minneola, which developed as the new flanking-line’s updrafts (already having shown itself to be rife with vorticity) merged into the main storm. The tornado behaved accordingly, but somewhat unusually, starting out as this slim, dusty, tilted tube, then evolving into a more erect, stovepipe-like shape before disappearing into the darkness. Thanks to a roadblock related to a wreck caused by the tornado, we were prevented from getting much closer than this, and from seeing most of its 23-mile lifespan that included EF3 damage. Still, it was a rare spectacle to see a tornado under such marvelous light!
4 ENE Fowler KS (17 May 19) Looking ENE
37.4022, -100.1329