Medicine Lodge, Kansas tornado: April 8, 2015 — Bryce Kintigh

Published on April 8, 2015

Chasing in the Gypsum Hills of western South Central Kansas can be difficult. Knowing the area, I positioned the team to sit on a hill just southwest of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, which gave us a pretty decent vantage point to the storm coming from the west.

It took the storm a while to get going, but when it did, it produced a pretty tornado, as seen from afar.

A tornado from April 8, 2015 west of Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

The tornado stayed over a rural area and did not produce much in the way of significant damage.

Timelapse of a supercell producing a tornado near Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

Bryce Kintigh

Bryce has been chasing storms since 2003. Growing up on a farm in North Central Kansas, weather has always played a big role in his life. In 2018, Bryce finished his Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. His favorite weather memory would have to be seeing a large wedge tornado with a satellite tornado in 2007. When Bryce isn’t on the road chasing storms, he enjoys spending time with friends, cheering on the Kansas State Wildcats, and traveling. He hopes to visit every National Weather Service radar site in the nation, visiting over 135 thus far. Bryce is often heard on KAKE-TV, tracking storms all across Kansas and the Midwest.

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