Brandon Sullivan
EF5
Storm initiation to start soon! Headed for des moines.. watch has been issued
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3/31/07 NOW: IL / MO / IA
- Thread starter Brandon Sullivan
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Jim Placzek
Not chasing just observing from home in Omaha. Nice area of cumulus growing in bright sunshine south of Omaha. Area of storms has developed from about Lincoln to Pawnee City. Current temp is 64 F and S wind at 20.
Jeff Miller
EF5
Tornado Watch 100 Issued for NE so starting the Now thread for today's severe weather.
Lines of towering cumulus with imbedded heavy rainshowers moving through extreme NE Nebraska ATTM...sunshine is coming out, towers are not the crispest at this point with visual obs here near SUX. Main emphasis is the strong to severe thunderstorms developing on radar SW of Omaha towards Lincoln and severe warned. Expect intensification and supercell storm mode posing a tornado threat. Activity should increase rapidly this afternoon.
Mods: Please delete the other NOW thread as this was posted earlier. thanks.
Lines of towering cumulus with imbedded heavy rainshowers moving through extreme NE Nebraska ATTM...sunshine is coming out, towers are not the crispest at this point with visual obs here near SUX. Main emphasis is the strong to severe thunderstorms developing on radar SW of Omaha towards Lincoln and severe warned. Expect intensification and supercell storm mode posing a tornado threat. Activity should increase rapidly this afternoon.
Mods: Please delete the other NOW thread as this was posted earlier. thanks.
Jeff Miller
EF5
Already a tor warn for a minisup effecting Johnson/Otoe counties in Nebraska. Radar indicated at this time but in a very favorable environment for intensification. This could certainly be an interesting day. Interesting NNW storm motion too should prove for different chase approach tactics.
Jeremy Ludin
EF2
Sitting in Ottumwa gathering data with Joel Wright. Towers exploding everywhere around. May head a bit west of town and try to intercept the new cells going up there....
Brandon Sullivan
EF5
jeremy.. when you get a chance.. check your pm's.. we can meet up maybe. we are headed your wayy. looking at that northern mo cell moving NNE..
Paul Townsend
Sitting at a rest area about 35 miles west of Iowa City....storm gaining strength just west of me crossing I-80. May blast up north with it here in a sec.
Michael O'Keeffe
Major convection is visible to my NW. i'm on I35 near Excelsior Springs, MO. Will most likely move north and west.
Bill Schintler
EF4
I'm in Iowa City. The cells you're on are rapidly moving north across the WF into stable air... I'm watching the stuff intensifying along the IA/MO border, and may opt to blast west on I-80 for an intercept if radar trends continue to look favorable. Those cells will have some unstable air to work with for the next few hours.
- bill
Brent A. Clair
EF0
I'm going to hang around home at the EMA in Adams County. I'll pass on any info from the southern half of the watch.
fplowman
Storm Chasers.. Congratulations you can choose whats behind door 1 - 20 lol
I dont know which one to go after.. Im on I 80 trying to decide what to do.. What a nightmare.. Sitting at the motel 6 outside of 59hwy to Harlan
I dont know which one to go after.. Im on I 80 trying to decide what to do.. What a nightmare.. Sitting at the motel 6 outside of 59hwy to Harlan
Jeff Miller
EF5
at work, pea to marble hail barrage for 60-90 seconds here in North Sioux City from one of the storms. These storms are quite active electrically as well with frequent CG and IC lightning. Torrential downpours that turn off and on as sudden as one flips a switch.
cstrunk
EF3
Tornado Warning for the storm near Panora, IA in Guthrie County. It's showing some decent rotation and it heading north-northwest. It looks like the storms are starting to get a little more organized. It is going to be very hard to determine which storms to go after, being they are small and very numerous. Good luck out there guys.
Jim Zandonai
Looks like a solid line of strong storms has formed from C-IA to NE MO. moving rapidly NNE and strengthening in EC-SE IA. The Benton co. storm is the only one showing a a rotation around here..actually looking in the line like a small bow developing earlier. Be interesting to see how far North and East the line goes.
