dmckemy
EF1
Quite an eventful day for me! Started off the day heading toward Scottsbluff and arrived in town shortly after 1pm local time. Storms were starting to fire off of the higher terrain in Wyoming and were making their way toward the Nebraska panhandle. We slowly made our way toward the storms and set up just southwest of Scottsbluff. One of the suddenly intensified on radar and developed a nice hook on radar with decent rotation on the velocity scans. We noticed some lowerings in the distance with the storm and saw some dirt being picked up into the updraft. Unfortunately, with the bluffs and hills in the way, it was hard to determine if a tornado occurred for sure in that area; however, there was a visible debris cloud beneath what I think was the main circulation (and there were even small funnels), so I believe a tornado may have touched down briefly. I submitted my report online with some pictures as well, but have yet to hear anything back about it yet.
The storm didn't last too long, however, died within a half hour to an hour after it dropped the possible tornado. New storms were firing off in the northern pandhandle and eastern Wyoming, so we made our way north to check out those storms. One storm in Wyoming a tornado warning on it, and according to GRLevel3, had over a 100 knots of gate to gate shear and 3.75 inch hail on it. We made our way to that storm, but by the time we had gotten to it, it had weakened significantly. Still, the storm had impressive structure with it, and we watched the meso of the storm come toward us while slowly becoming outflow dominant.
A friend had some software that did panamora's and helped me stitch together the above image. I thought it came out very well considering I did not have a tripod handy!
I also got a video timelapse of the feature as it moved toward us. I think I may have captured some Kelvin-Helmholtz wave action going on between the 28 and 45 second mark in the meso (it's a little easier to see in HD on the video).
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The storm didn't last too long, however, died within a half hour to an hour after it dropped the possible tornado. New storms were firing off in the northern pandhandle and eastern Wyoming, so we made our way north to check out those storms. One storm in Wyoming a tornado warning on it, and according to GRLevel3, had over a 100 knots of gate to gate shear and 3.75 inch hail on it. We made our way to that storm, but by the time we had gotten to it, it had weakened significantly. Still, the storm had impressive structure with it, and we watched the meso of the storm come toward us while slowly becoming outflow dominant.
A friend had some software that did panamora's and helped me stitch together the above image. I thought it came out very well considering I did not have a tripod handy!
I also got a video timelapse of the feature as it moved toward us. I think I may have captured some Kelvin-Helmholtz wave action going on between the 28 and 45 second mark in the meso (it's a little easier to see in HD on the video).
Watch video >
