A marginal day for supercells with a broad target range from Kansas to southwest Texas. We drove southwest from Topeka and decided to play the Kansas side of things where supercells under a tight mid-level vort max formed. We stayed generally northeast of Pratt and found ourselves on a tornado warned storm near the town of Sylvia. This storm actually had some of the better structure we had seen in weeks and for a time had us believing that a tornado might very well occur. We watched very low cloud bases in the inflow region that were highly sheared… it was just having trouble tightening up. Our interesting period lasted about 10 minutes before a strong surge of outflow began racing southward. We did get a decent core dump of 1.25 inch hail about four miles west of Sylvia.
