David Draun
EF5
Yeah Ryan, you saw myself, Fabian Guerra, Steve Mirsky, and the rest of our team. Great meeting you.
We thought this was going to be a bust in the Nebraska Panhandle as showers/storms were going up then diminishing to virga showers just as they went up. We debated on going to South Dakota to see if we can catch anything. As we are starting on our way back home, thinking a bust was going to be a sure thing, Bob Schafer calls up and tells us the radar is lighting up. We witness rapid cloud motions on the front flank of the virga showers. It was quite interesting but we thought it was nothing. LOL, I zoomed in on one of the photos of this motion to make it look like a wall cloud. A half-hour later in Hyannis, NE Bob calls again to say explosive thunderstorm development is likely as the front initiates. He goes on to say there is a 71 dBz cell to the north. As we exit the van, we constant thunder as the explosive development occurs right above our heads. Great storms with awesome shelf cloud/outflow structure, brief high-based meso/wall cloud, inflow tails, a hailbow, and more continuous lightning! Bust averted!
