5/23/06 REPORTS: SD / NE / KS

[Jeff Buss]

Didn't get out of work in Lincoln until 4:30, so made my way west to Grand Island. North of Grand Island on Highway 281, we had storms lined up north/south, all to our west. This is my first season using ThreatNet, so it's interesting to compare what the program is showing with what's actually there. Saw some convectively-induced dust storms, which produced a rather eerie effect against the dark skies.
Decided to head back south to intercept the storms firing south of Hastings. Traveling through Grand Island, we noticed a large gust front which had that wall-cloud lookalike appearance. As we proceeded towards Interstate 80, it crossed in front of us. Just as we had a good view of it, the armored plated "Tornado Car" buzzed by us in the next lane heading in the same direction. Gave me second thoughts for just a moment!
We played storms all the way to York, but found Highway 81 was closed north of town. With sunset approaching, we decided to call it a night and headed home.

 

[Jimmy Deguara]

We chased the region south central Nebraska from just west of Cairo knowing well we had no chance to make the storms further north. A liner mode was more than expected given the wind shear dynamics as noted above.

Probably the best features observed were the lightning in Fremont and of course the strong gustnado near Archer. In regards to the evidence of a tornadic circulation, I am not totally convinced we have evidence thus far to prove we observed a forward flank tornado. Any comments are certainly welcome.

Nick Moir suggested he observed rotation on the gust front - the featured noted above the dust - something I was not aware of at the time.

Here is his photograph

http://www.australiasevereweather.com/phot...06/0523nm01.jpg

A video has been provided though that I took prior to Nick's photograph:

smaller version:

http://www.australiasevereweather.com/vide...may_2006_02.wmv

larger version
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/vide...may_2006_01.wmv

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

 

[Robert Edmonds]

I didn't see the gustnadoes/naders. I ended up on some of the cells south. Did enjoy some nice sights though. The first one is a composite.

 

[Dean L. Cosgrove]

Having a great time chasing storms with my friends
Ericka Gray and Ian Gosling the past few days. May
23 we chased from Wood River to Lincoln, NE

Ericka has more pics on her site

http://www.tornadogirl.com/

Dean Cosgrove
http://chasetours.com/