6/07/2009 REPORTS: CO/KS/NE/IA

[Jeremy Den Hartog]

Not a whole lot to add to what was already discussed. We arrived at the Pawnee City, NE storm approximately 10 minutes before it was tornado warned (we were approximately 5 miles WSW of Pawnee City). We found a good 'elevated' location to view the storm from - at the time nobody was around. By the time we moved on (about 30 minutes later), I would guess there was 50+ chasers/spotters/locals in the same area we were. I was a little bummed the storm never produced a tornado but it had a really nice wall cloud with at times a nice 'beaver tail'. Chatted briefly with one of the locals who said he had came across the 'TIV" just south of Pawnee City watching the same storm. Eventually this storm started to show signs of weakening as well as we were starting to approach the Missouri River so we decided to make a play on the Forest City/Oregon storm. We caught up to it in approx 30-45 minutes (just as it was going through Oregon) but managed to stay behind the hail. Like everyone else, we saw some MONSTER hail laying on the ground but unfortunately didn't stop as the storm looked like it may produce a tornado any minute but it unfortunately never did. We stayed on that storm about 30 minutes before calling it a night and heading back home (got home about 3:00 AM). Anyhow, here are a couple pictures...

Nice wall cloud from the Pawnee City, NE storm:

This is the radar image from the approximate time the above picture was taken (just before the storm was tornado warned). It was trying very hard to produce :

The same wall cloud after it had passed by us:

Came across several of these from the Vortex2 team just outside of Forest City:

 

[Danny Neal]

Was with Adam so our reports are the same. He took a lot of pictures and I took a lot of video that I am currently uploading to Youtube. Will post a couple when they finish.

A couple of thoughts.....

* The closest we saw to it tornado-ing was just outside of Winston, MO where the wall cloud was pretty pronounced but still a tad bit high based

* That updraft was one of the, if not the, most impressive I have ever seen. If I didn't know any better I would have thought someone dropped an A bomb on KC.

* The biggest hail we encountered was maybe golfball. But it lasted for about 10 minutes and came down hard.

* After gassing up in Jamesport, we witness one of the most impressive displays of lightning either of us have witnessed. This A-bomb updraft was lit up like a X-Mas tree for about 30 minutes (and beyond) Constant anvil zits, crawlers, CG's and multicolored IC.

* The chaser convergences surrounding the TIV and SRV were unreal. Just outside of Pawnee City, NE we were going to bail on the storm and head for the nuclear bomb in NE KS when we got caught by.... must have been 75 cars all following the TIV and SRV. You could tell most were chasers as well, but a number of them had kids in the backseat and what not.

 

[Matthew Harding]

Scott Roberts and I had toyed with the notion of making a play on anything that developed south of I-70 yesterday, but after much discussion in Florence, decided that the better play was to be on anything that developed near the meso-low/dryline intersection in SW KS.

We made this play for a couple of reasons:
1. We would be out of the mob that was up in NE KS, NW MO, SE NE
2. We felt that any storm that developed and could attach itself to a localized boundary had a chance of going tornadic.

So from Florence, we headed west toward Hutchinson. Once there we seen a couple of microburst-like features to our W. Once the call was made to make a play on those, they fizzled. Our next play was to intercept the storms coming up from N OK. We finally intercepted those about 2330z and stayed with them through the Wichita area.

Our highlight came when we seen what appeared to be another microburst-in-progress about 3 miles W of Clearwater. After close scrutinization of the video, we were able to detect a funnel-like cloud dangling above the area of dust, and for just a couple of seconds, it appears the dust takes a turn. With this info in tow and just not sure enough to make a call, we go to the NWS and try to gather a consensus to which none was made.

I am posting a link to the video so that you can see for yourself and make a call:
http://blog.ksstorm.info/2009/06/coulda-been-but-maybe-not.html

 

[Eric Flescher]

tube like structure

Just got back from Omaha after sleeping there after the all day chase 5/7 and a bust on 5/6.

James Seitz, Uday T. and I were on this chase.

I took videos and stills of those tube like structures
videos of the hail bouncing and pics (coming)
pics of the huge and varied hail (coming)
superb lighting show at night near St. Joseph til 12:30 AM (coming)
great chase convoys ( rubber ducky)
Met new people, saw faces know from Stormtrack, missed Doug Raflik by a couple of feet (PM please)
Pics and video clips etc posted later when I upload etc etc
Nice colors , structures and more

I videotaped and noted those tube like structrues

Curious: Mike - What were these tube like structures (Mike mentioned) and see in his pic?


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Nearing the supercell near Oregon MO.

Under it maybe in Oregon MO.

Big hail falling during both.

 

[Tyler Burg]

Got another of the IA supercell as well as a few lightning images on my website here... http://www.tonightssky.org/accounts/060709.html

 

[Steve Worthington]

WOW what a weekend for us:
Starting off in Hutchinson Ks going to Wyoming catching up to the cell in extreme western Nebraska and chasing it all night to North Platte Friday night then going to the "Great Iowa BUST" with everyone else for Saturday then driving back to Kansas just to turn around for another 600 mile chase yesterday up north.
Total chase miles this weekend were over 2000.

I hooked up with the southern part of the cell as that's where GR3 showed the most rotation yesterday. I like everyone else had to scramble to find a way to cross the river. Took Hwy 36 east to some county roads to run up north and rejoin the cell from the south/east corner. WOW was that a crazy idea. I will never take county roads in MO again...lol. Yea right...lol..
Anyway, I got to se some pretty good stuff popping out of the woods every once in a while. I turned around and went south and found Hwy 6 and my location was just west of Marysville. Went east to the Marysville town parade then back south to catch the new cell down around Cameron. Once again backwooding it all the way down there....lol.

The crazy thing of the whole night was getting hit by the microburst on my way back home to Kansas on the turnpike south of Emporia. It took our pathfinder and pushed me from the right lane to the concrete wall in the middle of the Hwy head-on. I thought I was a goner! Going 70mph to being pushed sideways will make you pucker a little.
Anyway here's a few pictures from MO yesterday.

The so called Tornado that was rain raped along Hwy6.
picture of it in the rain:

Cleaned up the contrast and adjust the light to see whats inside the rain and this is what I find.

and the rest of the nights pictures

 

[Joel Wright]

I chased with Jeremy Ludin, so I don't really have too much more to add. We followed the main cell pretty much from it's birth near Wheaton Kansas, all the way to east of Maysville Missouri. We were both quite shocked at how quickly that storm "dug in" and shifted east-southeast in the extreme northeast corner of Kansas. That's where we got cornered against the Missouri River between the expanding meso/associated wallcloud to the expanding RFD. The main part of the RFD actually missed us just to the east by about 200 yards. Over there you could see much heavier rain and significantly more hail falling. The sight of those giant stones hitting the Missouri River is something I'll never forget. Even though the main RFD just barely missed us, we were still close enough to get some very large stones falling here and there. Some of them were as big as baseballs. I think I even got one on video about the size of a softball. Gonna have to really review that video in detail. Currently working on uploading it all to the computer. We hope to have it up within a day or two.
What came at the end of the night was very unexpected. After we left the storm east of Maysville we called it a day and decided to head south to Cameron for the night. We picked up some beer, and headed for the hotel to unwind and review some video. Well, apparently the day was not quite done. Storms had fired up west of I-35 west and southwest of town, but at first they didn't look all that impressive. Over the period of an hour or so they began to look more supercellular as they began to "dig in" and turn more to the right. Soon a weak couplet formed southwest of Cameron and the storm became tornado warned. Ludin was literally standing in the doorway to our hotel room shooting lightning when this was all going down. It wasn't long before the winds kicked up and then shifted from the south to the west, and then quickly to the north. Very heavy rain fell with northerly winds gusting greater than 50mph. After maybe a few minutes of that, very suddenly the winds and the rain shut off. Then a minute later winds picked up again but this time out of the west, probably gusting over 30mph. That only lasted less than a minute. After that it was dead calm. It wasn't long before we started hearing reports of tornado sightings just to the northeast of Cameron. Apparently a large tornado was even reported by somebody in that area.
I can't wait to see what the KC damage survey shows from this storm. It appears the meso was organizing pretty quickly as it passed over Cameron. Luckily it didn't get it's act together sooner.
Here's a shot that Jeremy took shortly before the rain and wind picked up. It looks like there's a meso with possibly even a funnel decending on the right side of it. Could just be scud around the edge of the meso though. Hard to tell with just the illumination of the lightning. Very interesting to say the least. I should mention our room faced east, so this is looking northeast.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Ditto.

Like Doug Mitchell said, Mark Sefried and myself dropped southeast out of Forrest City and avoided any hail. Avoiding the precip core also allowed us to get back ahead of the cell quicker than we probably otherwise would have.

Only thing different to add from the other reports in this thread would be hours after sunset near Chillicothe. We had given up the chase at sunset, but made the choice to drive straight home overnight taking Highway 36. By chance the supercell paralleled highway 36, just a few miles north of us most of the trip. At one point, near Chillicothe around 11 PM the storm wound up again on radar producing a decent couplet (ironically right as the tornado warning was finally downgraded to a severe thunderstorm warning). So, we headed north out of town a couple miles where I shot a couple photos of a newly formed wall cloud with scud feeding into it. Once the wall cloud was about to overtake the highway we blasted back south to 36. Moments later Tyler Constantini reported a tornado crossing the highway where we were sitting a moment before. I had no visual on anything tornadic, so I'd be interested to see what he has to share.

Here are a couple photos of the wall cloud near Chillicothe, Missouri around 11:00 PM.

 

[Bob Hartig]

No need for me to reiterate what a bunch of people have already said, so I'll just hit the highlights of my NW Missouri chase:

I intercepted the storm on the south edge of Big Lake, MO. At that point, the wall cloud looked to me like it had been rather high-based and was beginning to lower. The rotation organized nicely and passed by to my south, at which point golf balls and larger started falling around me and I decided to vamoose. Wound up right behind the DOW and others of the Vortex 2 armada and followed them toward Forest City. I stopped along SR111 long enough to get a few photos of the wall cloud, which I had outpaced and which was now advancing toward me. Where I stood, the inbounds were really ripping, and I thought the storm was getting ready to tornado. But it never did.

I finally dropped the chase around Altamont. I'd been back-woodsing it for a while, darkness was closing in, and the storm had established a history of not producing tornadoes. So I concluded to head for home. No point in doing a night-time chase in unfamiliar, rural territory. As the storm approached Gallatin, it was producing one of the nicest radar images I'd seen that day, but I was ready to hit I-35 and start the drive back to Michigan.

Here are a few photos.

 

[Steve Polley]

Started off the day near Horton KS with Corey Sloan, Scott Tomlinson, Mark Diaz and my self. Followed the north cell west of Falls City and because of the river and road networks, decided to head east ahead of the storm and cross the river now. Followed the storm through dekalb county where the velocities scans tightned, did not see the funnel that others got to see. Followed the storm after dark to near Chillicothe where we caught an amazing lightning shot that Scott took with my camera We then headed east towards Cameron where another storm was moving out of Clinton county. Followed this storm back near Chillicothe and noticed several lowering s to the north but couldnt confirm ground contact. Exciting chase. Best structure of a Missouri storm that I have seen in a long time.

 

[Simon Brewer]

Juston Drake and I measured a 5.25 inch diameter hail stone in Oregon,MO. We grabbed and measured the largest stone closest to the car, because they were still falling! It looked like some other stones in the vicinity were possibly larger! This hail stone is largest I've personally measured, so that makes me pretty happy!

Wish we would have hung out in Oregon and tried to find some larger hail stones, but we were under the impression the supercell might eventually produce a tornado.

Simon

Check out a rough page for the day below:
http://www.stormgasm.com/6-7-09/6-7-09.htm

OK, got some pics from this day...

 

[Olivier Staiger]

got a few pix in a slideshow here from June 7

http://www.kyte.tv/ch/9038-klipsi/466806-kansas-june-7

 

[Bill Hark]

Nebraska and Missouri Supercells

June 7 was an exciting chase day across Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. There was a surface low shifting northeastward across northern Kansas into Nebraska and a warm front to the east. The mid level jet was spreading across the Plains with southwesterly flow. The surface winds would be from the southeast in northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska giving increasing shear. I was concerned about the strong cap and fairly week surface winds. The SPC had issued a moderate risk for severe storms including very large hail and possible tornadoes.

I started in Beatrice, Nebraska and was chasing with Scott McPartland, Dave Lewison and Jim Edds. We were also with Charles Edwards who was leading Cloud 9 Tours and Rocky Rascovich was helping Charles drive the tours. Also in our caravan was George Kourounis who was filming the “Highway to Hail” episode of his televison series, Angry Planet, meteorologist Mark Robinson, Jack Kertzie, adventurer Nik Halik, and George’s producer. Since we all agreed on the same general target area, we traveled as a caravan. The initial target area was extreme northeastern Kansas. We traveled south on 77 toward Marysville, Kansas and waited at a local convenience store. Soon other chasers congregated in the same area including the Twister Sisters (Peggy Willenberg and Melanie Metz). It was fun hanging out and chatting while watching the sky and checking data. I was concerned about high level clouds moving into the area causing a decrease in instability along with losing our backed winds as the low shifted eastward. After a couple of hours, our group headed eastward along 36. We expected storms to form in southeastern Nebraska. While on our way, we noticed some showers forming near the Kansas border south of Beatrice on XM and GR Level 3. One suddenly exploded into a developing storm. We briefly paused to see if its growth continued and if there were storms developing to our east. As this was probably the main storm, we turned north on 75 by 4:02 PM. We blasted west on 8 toward Pawnee City, Nebraska. By 4:35PM, I could see the storm updraft. There were some small storms to the south but this was the dominant one at present. Just east of Pawnee City, we stopped on 4 and watched. The storm was already rotating but the base was fairly high. We backtracked east to avoid the large hail and passed Pawnee City at 5:19PM. We parked a few miles to the east on 8 at 5:30PM. The storm was spiraling upward in a corkscrew shape. George and his group were closer to the storm to sample the hail. At times, we could hear the hail roar as golf ball and larger hail approached our location. Smack! The first piece of hail that I saw hit my car. I shifted eastward while Dave and Scott stayed a few minutes longer to see some hail. They have hail shields attached to their car that offer some protection. We met again a few miles east and shot more video. The storm, now tornado warned, was slowly moving east. We saw an intermittent ragged wall cloud but no tornado. The storm was impressive. We stopped again at 5:45PM. There was a new supercell forming to our southeast but we were hesitant to leave this tornado-warned storm. The first storm was now more to our north and formed another wall cloud at 5:55 PM. It soon vanished. We decided to leave this storm that was now starting to weaken and head for the growing southeastern storm. This second storm had a strong updraft and anvil. It became tornado-warned. We crossed the Missouri River at 6:04PM on 159. Soon, we saw large hailstones scattered on the ground and shredded leaves. There was a spotter report of 4 and ½ inch hail that had just fallen. Charles’ group, Jim, Dave and Scott decided to briefly stop and examine the large hail. I continued toward the storm since I was concerned a tornado could form at any time. I now wish that I had stopped to check out the large hail scattering the ground. Progress in the rain was slow due to a long line of cars including vehicles from VORTEX 2. I followed 59 and briefly shifted south on 29 before picking up 59. By 7:15 PM, I was out of the rain and could see the mesocyclone. There was a broad circular area of rotation. I reached Savannah, Missouri by 7:20PM. Following the storm was difficult due to winding roads and traffic. I went east on State Road (SR) E, then picked up 169 north at 7:32PM. The storm was strengthening and could produce a tornado at anytime. I wanted to be able to see the storm but not be under the meso. The setting sun caused the sky to turn orange behind the storm. I was now ahead of the approaching storm. I stopped on a hill near the intersection of SR N and 6 (6 miles west of Maysville and about 2.7 miles northeast of Amity.) at 7:52 PM. The storm was beautiful as it was lit by the setting sun. At one point, the sun came through the storm clouds. The whole storm was rotating. There was an area that was lowering and a clear slot formed. A tail cloud was present. Below the lowered area, I could see some rotation in the rain curtains but not enough to call it a tornado. This area was rapidly approaching my position. It transitioned to a larger wall cloud at 7:56PM. I continued east on State Road 6. I passed Cloud 9 Tours and Dave and Scott at Marysville as they were getting gas. They had taken a more southerly approach to the storm. I continued east. The traffic was getting heavy as hoards of chasers, locals and the VORTEX 2 vehicles were funneled down a few narrow winding roads. I stopped briefly to watch the storm. There was continued broad rotation. The Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) passed me and turned up a side road. The area was getting too crowded. I shifted east and joined back with Dave and Scott along with Cloud 9 Tours. We drove south a few miles and watched the storm in the growing darkness. Lightning flashed to the north while lightning bugs flashed across a field in front of our group. We continued to St. Joseph, Missouri and had dinner at Dennys, the only open restaurant. George and his crew joined us and showed off their hail dents along with a big red spot on his shoulder from a hail stone.

Although no definite tornado, this was a very exciting storm chase with two supercells. I will be interested to see if there is tornadic damage in the area below the lowering that I watched.

Awaiting initiation in Marysville, KS

[URL]http://www.harkphoto.com/060709marysville.jpg[/URL]

XM image from my car while approaching storm at 4:32PM
[URL]http://www.harkphoto.com/060709xmimage432.jpg[/URL]

The first storm at 5:26PM

[URL]http://www.harkphoto.com/060709supercell526pm[/URL]

Wall cloud on the first storm at 5:54PM
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709northernsupercellwall1554.jpg

Another image of the wall cloud on the first storm.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709northernsupercellwall2.jpg

View of the second storm to our east at 6:02PM. We bailed on the first storm and headed east.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709easternsupercell602.jpg

Approaching the eastern storm at 6:18PM. Amazing updraft!
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709approachingeaststorm618pm.jpg

Catching up with the meso at 7:21 of the second storm near Savannah, MO.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709cathingupwithmeso721.jpg

Views of the supercell from hill near the intersection of SR N and 6 (6 miles west of Marysville and about 2.7 miles northeast of Amity.)

7:51PM
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709rotatingsup751.jpg

7:53PM. Notice the tail cloud and lowering.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709rotatingsup753.jpg

7:56PM The meso was rapidly approaching my location but had widened.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709rotatingsup756.jpg

I was stuck in the middle of a line of chasers.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709lineofchasers.jpg

George was hit with a hailstone. Here is his bruise several hours later. George had a helmet but no shoulder pads.
http://www.harkphoto.com/060709georgehailbruise.jpg


Bill Hark

 

[cdcollura]

Good day all,

Finally got some pictures and a brief chase report up for June 7, 2009 from NE Kansas / SE Nebraska and into NW Missouri. Three supercells were intercepted, the first being a storm near Summerfield, Kansas near the Nebraska border, then another one farther southest into extreme NW Missouri near Oregon producing TREMEMNDOUS hail, and finally a supercell well after dark with a tornado near Cameron (illuminated by lightning).

Above: Stout updraft goes up on storm developing near two intersecting boundaries near Summerfield, Kansas.

Above: Rapidly rotating portion of first supercell southeast of Pawney, Nebraska.

1). June 7, 5:30 PM</B> - Observation and indirect penetration of an extremely severe, and possibly tornadic thunderstorm along and near the Kansas / Nebraska border / Highway 99 from near Summerfield, Kansas in Marshall County and eastward towards Du Bois, Nebraska near Highways 8 and 50 in Pawnee County. The storm was a classic supercell thunderstorm that was observed from initiation west of Summerfield and followed to its point of weakening to an LP storm (due to its inflow being cut-off from another supercell to the SE). The storm came very close to producing a tornado with excellent rotation and rain wrap during its most intense phase. An unconfirmed report of a tornado was associated with this storm, but only a rapidly rotating wall cloud was observed south of Humboldt. The storm had hail up to softball-sized (4"), but the core was avoided and not penetrated. Winds near 40 MPH (inflow / outflow) were observed along with moderate rain, small hail, and frequent lightning with some close hits. Conditions producing the storms were surface heating, intersecting boundaries (triple point), low pressure area, and upper trough. Documentation was still digital photos and HD video. A 2009 Chevy HHR was used to chase the storms. A tornado watch was also in effect for the area until 11 PM CDT.

Above: Explosive development of second supercell storm viewed from Falls City, Nebraska looking east into NW Missouri.

Above: Close up of hailstone (melted) collected west of Maysville, MO - Hail over 4" was found earlier near Oregon, MO.

Above: Interesting rotating area of the supercell storm east of Maysville, MO before weakening and moving towards I-35.

2). June 7, 8:00 PM</B> - Observation and indirect penetration of another extremely severe, and possibly tornadic thunderstorm from near Falls City, Nebraska in Richardson County, across the Missouri River through Oregon, Missouri along Highway 159 / 59, and into Daviess County near Altamonte, MO and Interstate 35. This dangerous classic to HP supercell storm developed southeast of the original supercell storm earlier in Marshall County, KS and had little "competition" from nearby storms (southernmost "Tail-End Charley" cell). The storm core, near Oregon, Missouri, consistently was producing incredible hail approaching, if not exceeding 5" (one chaser report was 5.25")! Hail at least grapefruit sized was observed on the backside of the storm passing through Oregon, with the VORTEX II teams / other chasers creating a massive chaser caravan. The storm produced many rapidly rotating wall clouds / funnels with a powerful (60 MPH+) RFD. Of course, the core was not penetrated, but still winds to 60 MPH, frequent lightning with close hits, torrential rains, and large hail (largest observed falling was quarter sized as the storm weakened later). A large funnel / possible brief tornado was observed with this storm near Maysville in DeKalb County from near Highway 6.

Above: This was south of DeKalb / Caldwell County looking north towards Cameraon, MO at about 10:45 PM CDT when storm spotter were reporting a large tornado with another supercell well after dark.

3). June 7, 10:30 PM</B> - Observation and direct penetration of a very severe, tornadic thunderstorm from near Clinton and DeKalb counties in Missouri, near and west of I-35 and south of Cameron and Osborne. The storm was an HP supercell storm, and hail up to golfball-sized (with isolated pieces to half-dollar) as 1.5" to 2" was encountered with 60-70 MPH winds, torrential rains, and continuous lightning with numerous close hits. A wind shift from strong easterly to strong westerly was encountered when exiting the storm core to the south (mesocyclone). Once clear of precipitation, the storm updraft region was observed from the south at a distance of 5 miles or so, illuminated by the frequent lightning. A large wall cloud, and subsequently, a large silhouette of a tornado became visible for several minutes. Spotter reports confirmed this, putting the tornado in southern DeKalb County over open farmland. The storm weakened and evolved to multicell afterwards.

I am also working on a chase log for June 5 and June 7 and it is available below...

http://www.sky-chaser.com/mwcl2009.htm

 

[Paul Townsend]

I took a little trip this past weekend to the central Plains. Saturday was the usual "Paul's out so it is going to be a cap bust day."

Since I don't have dedicated internet access, I targeted Topeka as my initial gathering-data spot for Sunday. I made sure to look for spots further north to get data, as I drove down US 75 toward Topeka, and I almost just stopped at the Super 8 in Holton instead of going on to Topeka. It became clear that veered winds were going to kill the chances of good storms this far south (Topeka), so I went back up US 75 to Holton.

I spent a couple hours at the Super 8, looking over data. It seemed to me there were going to be 2 distinct episodes of good storms in the Holton vicinity. The first with the surface low/baroclinic boundary near the NE/KS border during the daylight, with the westerly 850mb winds demarcating the southern extent, and then back down further into northeast KS near sunset and after dark in association with the strengthening lower level low in southwest/south central KS.

I waited on a number of scans after the initial updrafts developed. I wanted to see how far south distinct cells would develope. The weakish and linear echoes south of the main storm didn't seem to want to develope. I hate leaving my data source but I had to head out to catch the action before it got to a point that my intercept from the south would be to the west of the action. I observed along the way that there was just a turkey tower or 2 dissipating from the bottom up, confirming the southern extent of the action.

I dinked a little bit with the linear southern echoes to see if one of the updrafts would get going. No such luck. I squinted into the haze and sun to the northwest and thought I could make out a strong tower and inflow clouds, so I busted north and west as fast as I could. I honed in on the action area right at the NE/KS border.

Soon I was in the mix with mobile mesonets/TIV/Timmermobile/hoards of chasers. Disorganized and somewhat chaotic rear flank downdraft action was observed. As much or more horizontal vorticity than vertical vorticity. Briefly got out and filmed a narrow RFD cut that was nearly straight above me. Let the flow push down on my face. Was "cold" as expected.

Laptop was acting up so I lost my navigation tools. Stopped to fix that. New storm was somewhat evident to my east but with worsening terrain and road network that way, and with sparse river crossings, I decided not to head to that beast. Instead I drove back down to Holton and made sure the nighttime scenario was on target, and got a room.

I had the opportunity to do my first nighttime chasing. Though I really didn't chase per se. The first place I stopped ended up being a great place to film the 2 tornado-warned supercells in the Fairview vicinity.

Below is a funnel from the eastern storm:

As I was filming and enjoying the first storm a second one got its act together: