Chase day 25 - NE/SD/ND

[Nick F]

Yesterday ended up more of a travel day than a chase day, we left our overnight stay in Goodland in NW Kansas and headed first west into Colorado before heading north into the far west of Nebraska - though always with an eye on storms coming off the Front Range to our west. We came across a non-severe line of storms that had earlier formed along the front range of northern Colorado and Wyoming and drifted east to our location in western Nebraska early evening. We decided not to keep going north to Rapid City to intercept the lone LP up there. Given the amount of driving these last few days.

 

Today, 5% tornado risk from north central Nebraska up through central/east South Dakota and on into eastern North Dakota. Target to be decided still. But hopefully we'll see some supercells today after just seeing bog-standard storms that slipped off the front range yesterday.

 

 

More on the T3 can be found in my blog here: http://nickweathereye.blogspot.com/

[chionomaniac]

My target today issomewhere between Miller to Ipswich, SD.

[icbinb]

One of those days where the team may have to compromise on a target with a view to tomorrow's risk. If I were ignoring tomorrow I would probably sit somewhere like Eureka.

[nsrobins]

Thanks Nick. The area between Sturgis and Vale, SD again looks favoured this afternoon with the combination of moisture and shear maximised here, especially from 22Z.

Wide open panoramas make for great viewing, but dirt roads likely.

[nsrobins]

14Z RAP and HRRR:
I like the WF play but that is way up in ND. I also like the area just east of the lee low/trough pretty much dead centre SD (Murdo, SD) at 22Z where HRRR plops a nice lone sup into a sheared environment. Will it be enough though?
The south/SW SD region would be better for tomorrow as others have mentioned.

[nsrobins]

Are you guys mobile yet today? The GPS is not showing any movement yet.

Some towers popping now on the ND/SD line and also down in SW SD - the two areas already highlighted.

Visibility looks amazing today (maybe 80 miles plus on flat terrain) so no problem spotting the initiation.

[matty40s]

Large storm popping up near Cannon Ball - I kid you not.

[matty40s]

now gone tornado warned, clear rotation visible on StormScapeLiveTV

[Boro Snow]

yep matty thats what i am watching, thought we had touchdown there

[AndyR]

Had a great day traveling to South Dakota. Waited a while for the storms to kick off. Lovely mommutas clouds. Best I've seen so far.

[IanM]

Very nice Andy, thanks for sharing