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8 June 2018 – Severe Thunderstorms Western South Dakota

This day started with a little more promise than most of the season had to offer.  We woke in Chadron, Nebraska and had a couple of fairly close plays to choose from.  One would be early, isolated supercell development to the northwest of Rapid City, the other would be slightly later storm development near and east of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.  We worked our way north to Buffalo Gap where we could observe both areas unfolding to plan.  A supercell was northwest of Rapid City, and towering cumulus clouds were rising to our east.  The Rapid City storm was looking impressive both on radar and visually from our distant vantage point.  But this storm was surrounded by chasers and in a fairly poor road network at the north side of the Black Hills.  We made our decision to run east toward the new development and started along the scenic drive east from Buffalo Gap toward Rocky Ford.

Along the way, storm development in front of us was impressive.  There was steady growth of tall convective towers both visually and on radar, where no pulsing was indicated.  These storms decided it was time to go and they went, chewing nicely on MLCAPE that was around 4500 j/kg.  Our chase ran into a snag just south of Rocky Ford when we were informed that one of our chase party didn’t like the idea of chasing in the Pine Ridge Reservation.  We had to find a quick way out.  Unfortunately, we had already come about half way in.  The decision was made to go north to Scenic – east through the eastern side of the Badlands National Park and meet up with the interstate southeast of Wall.  We would then drive east on I-90 for about an hour to Murdo and head south to see what condition our storms would be in by the time we got there.

Sadly, but not too unexpectedly, what had been discrete supercells had become bowing line segments during our three hour detour.  We made a stop just west of Mission, SD where we got our first good look at the oncoming storms:

Needless to say, with that look, any chance of tornado production had ended and we decided to shift southward and see what lightning could be had.

We made a couple of stops south of Valentine, Nebraska where things were more casual:
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Lightning didn’t cooperate, with most of the cloud to ground strikes staying buried in the heaviest precipitation.  We had some mammatus clouds to view back to our south and east, but this was pretty much the end of the day for us.

 

7 June 2018 – Severe Thunderstorms Southeast Wyoming

I started the day in Goodland, Kansas and made the long drive north across far southwest Nebraska, northeast Colorado and into southeast Wyoming.  The general area between Lusk and La Grange appeared favorable for severe storms – and with a little luck, something pretty photogenic.  The first organized development occurred just south of Chugwater and made slow progress northeast to near Torrington:

The storm itself never looked that great, but it was nice enough when combined with the beautiful green country of southeast Wyoming.  I followed it northeast while observing a considerable amount of cloud to ground lightning strikes and some small hail.

It’s funny some of the things you come across while roaming the plains… like this old Denver fire engine:

I came across an old Huntley, WY school.  I would like to know more about the history of this school.  For a town that has less than 100 people, this building was huge.  And there were many more large buildings.  This school looked capable of holding several hundred students at one time:

 

I met up with Pete, Dan and Bernie just northeast of Torrington where we watched numerous areas of storms develop and weaken all directions from us.  We were even treated to some mammatus, half inch hail and a high base funnel from our original storm as it weakened overhead.

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We ended up stopping just north of Van Tassell to watch a beautiful sunset before driving to Chadron for the night:

 

 

 

29 May 2018 – NW Oklahoma Supercell

This day was one of the small few that showed some pretty nice potential.  With a retreating outflow boundary across northwest Oklahoma and nicely backed, moist flow on the north side of it, it had the makings of a tornado day.  I got a bit of a late start which eliminated any chance at seeing the tornadoes which occurred near Dodge City – but I doubt I would have made it there anyway.

A storm developed along the Kansas/Oklahoma border northeast of Buffalo and steadily organized into a supercell while remaining nearly stationary.  It seemed in the perfect spot to become a tornado producer.  We spent a good amount of time viewing this storm along and north of Highway 64 from just east of Buffalo to northwest of Freedom.  There were periods that wall cloud features were demonstrated, but motion in these features was never strong enough to make you think that something was imminent:

 

When the storm started moving, it turned to the southeast and started accelerating.  It also transitioned to a high precipitation supercell that became rather uninteresting.  We stopped south of Waynoka and shot a few pictures:

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The storm apparently produced a brief tornado near Waynoka, but this would have been buried deep in precipitation – precipitation that included baseball size hail – and we weren’t going to poke our heads inside to see what it looked like.

Probably the best image of the day came of sunset just east of Fairview.  There were storms developing to the right and left of the setting sun.  Crepuscular rays and brilliant color were being displayed on mammatus associated with earlier storms.  Quite a sight!

 

28 May 2018 – Panhandle Supercells / Weak Tornado

This was a fun chase day in the Oklahoma Panhandle, primarily in the area near and east of Guymon.  There were numerous storms along a north/south line that stretched from southwest Kansas to the Texas Panhandle.  Despite the close proximity of the cores, the chase wasn’t too complicated thanks to limited chase traffic and a good road network.

Here was a view of the broken line showing how closely clustered updraft and core areas were to each other:

Several of the storms were rotating and exhibited supercell characteristics.  Occasionally, lightning cooperated enough to give me a few shots.  Here was a storm just west of Adams, OK:

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The tornado had a broad, bowl shaped appearance with wisps of condensation reaching to the ground for about 2-3 minutes.  It did not appear to be a very strong event.

 

 

 

25 May 2018 – Supercell TX Panhandle / W OK Storms

I didn’t intend on chasing this day, but got the itch to roll into western Oklahoma for some lightning opportunities.  Sadly, good lightning ops never presented themselves.  I ended up making it as far as the Texas Panhandle where I watched a couple of storms die.  One of them produced this rather humorous funnel cloud as it took its last breath:

The winning part of the day came near Erick with a brilliant amount of color painted on the backside of storms as they moved east across western Oklahoma:
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19 May 2018 – Supercell near Fairview, Oklahoma

This chase day never took me far from home, and I spent most of it measuring hail.  The first storms I picked up on were just east of Hennessey and I measured severe size hail stones from north of Orlando into Perry.  I let these storms go and drove west to Douglas where I watched a storm weaken, then drove north to Medford and measured more severe size hail.  I was calling it a day and returning south through Enid when a storm started developing northwest of Fairview.  This storm was the most impressive of the day and even warranted a Tornado Warning for a time:

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Rotation was evident at cloud base with the storm, but it never gave good reason to believe that a tornado was imminent.  I saw baseball size hail falling just north of Fairview. Luckily, I managed to miss any big hits.  I spent a good amount of time trying to capture lightning east of Fairview before returning home.  As has been the case in 2018, I didn’t have a much success.

2 May 2018 / Oklahoma Supercells

While we didn’t feel as good about tornado potential as the day before, it still looked like tornadoes would be possible – this time in Oklahoma.  Storms started forming near the Texas/Oklahoma border not long after we left Okarche, and we drove straight to our first severe storm northwest of Elk City.  What we found was completely uninteresting.  It was hazy, and the updraft was high based and lacked any pleasing structure.  It was a short look and we started southeast toward the next storm of interest.  A tornado warning had been issued for a storm near Lone Wolf.  We experienced some heavy rain and hail while driving south from Sentinel to Hobart.  As soon as we got to the northwest side of Hobart, we popped into rain free conditions and found the updraft region just southwest of us.

 

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We made one more stab at a storm south of Snyder which we followed to northwest of Lawton.  This storm had size issues for most of its life and we seldom saw anything of interest with it.

Our drive home became tough in Grady County where we came across intense rain, hail and even accidentally came very close to a small tornado near Pocasset.  All of this was at night of course, and we didn’t see anything reportable.

1 May 2018 / Kansas Supercells

Our target this afternoon was north central Kansas.  I wish we would have stuck to that; we might have been treated to a couple of tornadoes.  We first drove northwest making it to Woodward where we went north to Coldwater.  By 3 pm, scattered storms had began developing from just north of Dodge City, north northeastward to near the Nebraska border.  Other storms were forming north of Salina.  By 3:30 pm, several of the northern storms had become severe, and we were continuing to move north with our original target in mind.  By 4 pm, a storm had started taking shape to our west over northeast Hodgeman County.  It didn’t take long for this storm to become a healthy supercell, and a Tornado Warning was issued for it as it clipped the northwest corner of Pawnee County and was moving through Rush County.  We had this view of the storm to our west at 4:23 pm:

Taken from just south of Albert, KS.

Taken from just south of Albert, KS.

Slow rotation was evident, but rising motion wasn’t that impressive, and the storm just didn’t look capable of producing a tornado at the time.  We drove west from Albert and north into Bison where we were clipped by the forward flank of the storm and received hail we measured at 1.78″.

We stopped at 5:32 pm and had this view to the northwest from near Olmitz, KS:

The storm structure had steadily improved, but the updraft region looked quite wet.  The idea of letting this storm go and making a move to developing storms to our south was already creeping into our minds.

The updraft region came closest to us while we were near Susank.  Here, the overall structure was still quite impressive, but there still lacked much in the way of any identifiable motion.  The storm seemed to be missing something:

 

Not putting two and two together, what it was missing was waiting for it another hour or so down the road to the northeast.  Conditions favorable for tornado production near an east/west boundary that was our original target.  Sadly, we let this storm go and started south.

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Interesting to look at for a bit, but it was clear this storm was too small to get anything done.  It didn’t take long for us to start southwest.  The next storm had just produced a weak tornado in Oklahoma and had crossed into Kansas, to the south of Coldwater.  While driving away, we stopped once more to look at our LP storm from northeast of Pratt, KS at 7:08 pm:

We ended up driving a few miles southwest of Medicine Lodge, KS and arriving at our newest target storm just as it rapidly fell apart.  It was approaching sunset and we took the time to watch that, and grab a few pics before returning home: