Jason Persoff
EF3
I'll be curious to read other posts and thought I'd start off the report log. In a word: linear.
Left N Platte and headed into Valentine, Nebraska. Watched early elevated convection steal the show and move rapidly east. Chased the long line of cells spanning from SD down to KS and saw them congeal into a squall line with no discernable features. The propagation of the cells southward along the line was obvious based on a line of towers and weakish anvils in low contrast haze. The cold front was so intense that the scoured blue sky and western winds traveled with me eastward into O'Neil, NE. Despite being in the TOR watch box, being in tandem SVR warns, it was at best a lot of driving for rain. Nebraska rain. But, rain all the same.
I guess the things that really blew it today (pun intended) was the southerly winds with little convergence along the rapidly-moving front (would have loved a little more backing). Everything was sort of out-of-synch with the best thermodynamics separated from the best wind fields.
Switched over to "virtual chasing" by the time I got to O'Neil and watched as the tail-end charlie storms on the line got their inflow cutoff by prefrontal storms that had fired in N/C KS.
Hope someone got lucky out there!
***Addendum noted by SPC log: From Union Cty SD at 0126z TORNADO THROWING UP LOTS OF DUST JUST EAST OF EXIT 38 ON INTERSTATE 29
Looks like a tornado could have used my medical services today (if only I could have seen some reprocity, eh?). LOL
Left N Platte and headed into Valentine, Nebraska. Watched early elevated convection steal the show and move rapidly east. Chased the long line of cells spanning from SD down to KS and saw them congeal into a squall line with no discernable features. The propagation of the cells southward along the line was obvious based on a line of towers and weakish anvils in low contrast haze. The cold front was so intense that the scoured blue sky and western winds traveled with me eastward into O'Neil, NE. Despite being in the TOR watch box, being in tandem SVR warns, it was at best a lot of driving for rain. Nebraska rain. But, rain all the same.
I guess the things that really blew it today (pun intended) was the southerly winds with little convergence along the rapidly-moving front (would have loved a little more backing). Everything was sort of out-of-synch with the best thermodynamics separated from the best wind fields.
Switched over to "virtual chasing" by the time I got to O'Neil and watched as the tail-end charlie storms on the line got their inflow cutoff by prefrontal storms that had fired in N/C KS.
Hope someone got lucky out there!
***Addendum noted by SPC log: From Union Cty SD at 0126z TORNADO THROWING UP LOTS OF DUST JUST EAST OF EXIT 38 ON INTERSTATE 29
Looks like a tornado could have used my medical services today (if only I could have seen some reprocity, eh?). LOL