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United States : Kansas

4.8 miles (7.7 km) NE of Tyrone (OK), Seward, KS, USA
Approx. altitude: 883 m (2896 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap topo aerial ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 37°S 79°E

Accuracy: 3 m (9 ft)
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#2: That time I took a pic of an unremarkable state border sign to make it look like that's why I was there to the passing cars. You can see Walter's truck in the background. #3: View to the north #4: View to the east #5: View to the south #6: View to the west #7: Ground cover #8: All zeroes #9: About to punch through the dryline toward the supercells as we exited southeastward out of the Oklahoma panhandle #10: In James's tornado shelter in Norman, OK around 9:30pm

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  37°N 101°W (visit #4)  

#1: View to the southeast, confluence (and yucca) in the foreground

(visited by Gavin Roy and Walter Hannah)

27-Apr-2024 -- Our fourth of six Kansas confluences in four days, and a bit of a bizarre one to access. After some research we decide we’d park along the frontage road east of U.S. Route 54 right on the Kansas/Oklahoma border. Upon arriving there we discovered a newish barbed wire fence between the two roads, but luckily it was drooping low at exactly the point we needed to cross. We waited for a lull in the traffic and then darted across the highway, over the train tracks, over another unmarked, more decrepit barbed wire fence, then through some low scrub to the confluence. We zeroed out at 11:18am.

It was a beautiful Saturday, 73°F and breezy with supercells starting to fire way out to our east. We were back on the road by 11:30am and we ended up catching up with these cells as we drove southeastward out of the Oklahoma panhandle through the sharp dry line toward Oklahoma City for half marathon weekend. In fact, we spent part of this evening in our friend James’s tornado shelter as the sirens blared and an EF-1 tornado passed right through Norman. A memorable day.


 All pictures
#1: View to the southeast, confluence (and yucca) in the foreground
#2: That time I took a pic of an unremarkable state border sign to make it look like that's why I was there to the passing cars. You can see Walter's truck in the background.
#3: View to the north
#4: View to the east
#5: View to the south
#6: View to the west
#7: Ground cover
#8: All zeroes
#9: About to punch through the dryline toward the supercells as we exited southeastward out of the Oklahoma panhandle
#10: In James's tornado shelter in Norman, OK around 9:30pm
ALL: All pictures on one page