Realized with all the ado about Sunday, I never said much about what I saw Monday the 19th. Woke up in Pratt and got to Lincoln, NE by lunch time, and was hungry after not having eaten since lunch the previous day, failing to find anything local (and I was sick of fast food) open in Alva, OK after 9 PM on a Sunday. However I was a little too leisurely and found myself about 20 minutes out from the intercept when the tornado warning went out on a cell approaching the Silver Creek/Genoa, NE area. I finally got visual of a promising looking wall cloud with a dual tail cloud structure off NE-34 north of Silver Creek.
However this seemed to be the cycle's peak both visually and on radar, and the tornado warning was allowed to expire. I quickly got confused/frustrated by the convective evolution as a bunch of new updrafts blossomed in a solid band to the south, and it appeared on track to become an upscale-growing mess. Thus I abandoned this group of storms, costing myself the tornadoes which later occurred near Schuyler/North Bend.
I dropped south to a severe-warned cell that was all by itself, after calculating I could intercept it somewhere near Sutton in about an hour. Approaching the exit for US 6 at Fairmont, the storm revealed itself with a photogenic LP "barber pole" structure and mammatus under the anvil.
I watched for a while and took some tripoded video to timelapse, but this storm soon began to shrivel and die both visually and on radar, and I started the long haul home.
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