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I hope your all having a nice weekend. Once again another tricky day with the SPC throwing out several possible scenarios for today's slight risk, we are going for the south central Nebraska play. The HRRR model is showing initiation 2-3pm CDT with several supercells possible. Tornado risk is low but a straight line wind event later in the day could be possible. It looks like any cells will develop into HP monsters. We are seeing our first cell with an overshooting top about 100 clicks to our NE...so things are already kicking! On a side note to try and cover the dropping in and out and for testing of all the tech in the car to help us improve streaming will will also be live on chasertv look out for UKTWISTERHUNTERS. Stream and chasertv will be up in the next 20minutes...next update will be when we reach Ogalala off the i80

Tom, Correct, the second photo is what was left of our cell that we chased....it did a hard SE turn tried a few times then died off. Me n Paul took some hail in the car park for fun. Quick note if your going to look up have your sunnies on!

Thanks for sticking with the stream yesterday.....all chasers went down outside sterling. Should be better today in better areas of coverage!

incredible structure on this storm...simply wow!

excellent just let me know when its dropping out etc can reboot v quickly think we are trying to push too many frames a second and its buffering will look at dropping them. Our cell just turned into a classic supercell.......in immediate need of Gas!!!!!

ah stream again....says its sending data this end will reboot...got our first CG! Check stream in 90seconds

here we go........ https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/18341-approaching_storm/

Approaching the anvil on our target storm east of Cheyenne, we are currently 25 miles east of Sidney. Looks like we will have to drop south off the i80 as the storms are SE movers. Sam bit messy down that way at the moment, and don't think things will stay discreet for long....will keep an eye on it. Best play still looks like the storms coming off the front range. I think that area will be our target for tomorrow!

Chase is on......... Storms are now starting to come off the Colorado and Laramie mountains, keeping an eye on them all parameters suggest one or two of these will develop into supercells before forming an MCS in the evening.

Got some timelapse footage and full speed of the cell as it developed...will upload this evening could not face it at 3:30am!!!

Latest SPC updates has us bang on schedule for the 5% Tornado risk in NE CO...........aiming for Julesburg CO. Did some tinkering and stream and GPS should be dropping out less than yday. Better reception around this part of the world! Also lost some of my initial post above...apologies!

We started today torn between two possible chase targets: Our first option was the IA/MO/IL corner or just west of this location as the models have a toward the IA/MO/IL corner and just west of there. Clearing on vis sat and the models have a shortwave trough pushing through there in the afternoon/evening. The other play is in Eastern Colorado where upslope flow is establishing itself and will allow for instability to increase mid afternoon with a chance of supercells, large hail, good lightning and a small chance of Tornadoes. Although the CO play is further away we decided to take that as it offers the greater chance of a Tornado and also places us in better position for tomorrows risk. Will update you guys as we enter CO and we know abit more.......

https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/18334-img-0654/ A quick shot for those who are still up going to take some pain now looking to take cover from the MCS cant outrun it

car took a bit of a bump had to restart all back up and running we are on a tornado warned classic supercell.....turning car round to get a view for you guys!! see im nice!! Got a WALL CLOUD now

Here we go folks......chase is very much on cell about is to cross the warm front and should explode!

chasing the cell that has cropped up in the warm sector........looks more favorable than the stuff to the SW keep watching!

current area to capped, heading back south to see what happens when the storm moves into more favorable conditions!

Gonna restart the stream all looks good this end with it..... Next hour or so should be a good show!

Cheers Tom, Looking good here.....very good, PM me on facebook if stream drops etc etc CU field looking good going to stop and wait in Norfolk.....

Tom, Things are looking good, CU field starting to bubble up at our location. Yep all set to upload a video when we get some footage! Thanks Again

Bit of a tricky setup today but one that we could reap the rewards of......... So the main target for today is the surface based triple point that is setting up along the warm front in E NE. If the clouds from yesterdays storms can clear, which at this moment looks like they are trying then storms that do initiate will enter an atmosphere of strong instability and good amounts of shear varying in height which are excellent conditions for nurturing supercells. After the sun sets the low level jet will kick in and any storms still rumbling will get one hell of a boost and we will be in lightning heaven! Currently heading east on i80.....will update you again after lunch!

Quick Update..... After lunch in Wheatland we headed a few miles further north to wait for initiation as a severe t-storm watch box was issued for our area. Storms fired in Montana and back in Denver which were not forecast or modeled further south. We waited, and storms finally started to develop due to the orthographic lift provided by the Rockies. We jumped back south and watched as a storm grew on the mountains and began to ping out lightning, the storm finally moved off the mountains and moved NE into the warm moist air and pulsed up and down in intensity. We chased it north and attempted some daytime lightning but the storm looked to be weakling so we headed south, as we left the storm ramped up again and we were suckered into a chase instead of dropping south to i80 and catching some lightning off the storms coming in from Colorado. The road options were not great and very slow, as we tracked the storm west to east it ramped up and took on supercell characteristics, we found a north option which would have made a great intercept road. We went slowly north and watched as the cell which was confused between LP and classic features crossed infront. The storm went severe but we missed our intercept by around 5 minutes. The guests got to sample some pea size hail and some jaw dropping scenery. From there we dropped back south and then south east to try and pick up the storms moving into Nebraska, due to slow roads we barely gained on these storms so stopped in Scotts Bluff for dinner and then went due south to the i80 and then east to Sidney where we crashed for the night. A few images below! https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/18333-wy-scenary/ https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/18332-wy-updraught/ https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/18331-wy-hail/