2025-04-17 REPORTS: NE/MN/IA/MO

[James Wilson]

Yesterday definitely overperformed especially after the cells got past the river. Here's a few photos of the cell that was to the South and then the monster night time wedge.

 

[Randy Zipser]

Here is a link showing neat satellite imagery of "exploding" CBs over NE and IA on 04/17/2025:

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[Tony Laubach]

Yeah, over-performing is probably the understatement of the season so far... intercepted the initial supercell west of Fremont and documented the landspout/gustnado activity there before the haboob-looking thing rolled into Fremont. Had to make a creative escape out of the traffic on the east side of town to NOT get completely clobbered in the hail.

Getting held up there prevented me from getting back to Omaha in time, so I opted to abandon that cell and make a run for the southern cell, catching it just before dark and got an INCREDIBLE view of the tornado near Tabor.