Today, we left Topeka in the late morning to – maybe – target central Nebraska for the possibility of supercells. The shear was good, but the instability and the moisture were marginal. I really thought that we wouldn’t chase at all, but I was wrong.
After arriving in Grand Island, Nebraska (where we would stay for the night), we learned we would be heading northwest towards a developing storm in northern Nebraska. The development was over 200 miles away. It was already 4:30 p.m. Well, to make a long story short, we “expedited” the process of getting there. In doing so, more than five vehicles in the armada were pulled over by an increasingly angry county sheriff. After pulling over driver number 5, he said “If I pull over one more car in your armada, I’m going to write every [expletive] car a ticket. And I’m going to call all the county sheriffs and this state and we’re going to shut you down!” Well, the information was disseminated quickly (thankfully), and no one sped after that.
The storm was "supercellular" for -- maybe – four volume scans. The base of the storm was halfway up the troposphere. We did a south to north transect from the inflow and through the core towards Ainsworth on HW 7, and that was that. We headed back around sunset.
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