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.