Okay, our interesting area of congested cumulus focus to the west of
North Platte has waned, and we are now favoring east and southeast of
North Platte towrd Lexington. There is good towering cumulus growth
to our immediate east-southeast, whcih we are now beginning to drive
back under now.

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nice looking hard towers to our WNW or NW as we are driving north on
US-83 toward LBF. Lincoln County, NE looking pretty good right now per
obs and 1km vis.

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Mike Umscheid Photography

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We were sitting in McCook and have repositioned north of town to get a
good view of the sky and monitor data. Incredible moisture for this
far northwest — 72 dewpoint in McCook!! (For a surface-based CAPE of
about 5,000 J/kg!) It is unusual to get lower 70s dewpoints into
southwestern Nebraska. A nice cumulus field has developed and we are
expecting aggressive convective development in a matter of an hour or
two not far from here.

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Mike Umscheid Photography

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Nothing new to report as we hung around Lodgepole for awhile to see if a storm would emerge from the showers. It didn’t happen so we are blowing off the chase. We will drive to Ogalalla after dinner for the night
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