currently photographing nice tall cloud-to-ground lightning flashes
near Johnson, KS. It was a fairly successful day of storm photography
despite storms being way outflow dominant (not a surprise given the
environment). Will be in “lightning photography” mode until the end
and hopefully some nice colors here in a bit at sunset… then back to
Dodge for my first midnight shift.

I decided to make a run at this "no risk" outlooked area of northicentral kansas where there is mesoscale convergence from Hays to east of Hill City KS. I am in Plainville where it is a blast furnace 104 degrees and a dewpoint around 70! Its a nice clumped cumulus field here but will it lead to anything exciting? Models say NO but what will the real atmosphere say? Stay tuned

Well this chase day is over. It was not worth the drive as the storms were very unphotogenic in South Eastern, South Dakota I am heading south in the general direction of home probably staying along I 80 in Grand Island probably for the night, and will head on home tomorrow. There’s an outside chance I might chase. Some photogenic storms along the front, here home, but that’s somewhat doubtful more later.

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I’m sitting along hwy 37 between Parkston and Tripp, SD (south of
Mitchell), where there is a very moist southeast wind temperature
around 90 and a dewpoint around 73 to 75 degrees with surface-based
cape exceeding 5,000 J/kg. Extreme instability right now, and I am
monitoring some surface based cumulus growth to my west and southwest,
with an initial small storm trying to develop just south of Lake
Andes. This may be the start of the show. Tornadic supercell is
likely in this environment early this evening across far southeast
South Dakota, perhaps near Sioux Falls.