Supercell looking north fropm clarksdale missouri
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June 7, 2009
Looking wsw fro a few miles w of pawnee city ne
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Awaiting convective development
Sitting in Beatrice NE along with matt crowther and scott bell waiting for storms to form. Very high cape/instability here just east and southeast of surface low. More later
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Midday update
As I type at 12:20pm, we are driving east on I-80 between Grand Island
and York. Latest 1km Vis and surface obs suggest an area of
convergence and cyclonic vorticity near Concordia. There is a kink in
the stratus field which indicates the surface low location as well.
This is the best play today I think. We will head south toward
Belleville and probably wait there. There is a band of mid level
cloud which is about to move over the target area which will probably
work against surface-based convective initiation, however, it is still
extremely early in the day (chase mode wise) and this will probably
move on out by late afternoon (I hope). We shall see. More later.
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Chase Acct: June 6, 2009 (Southwest NE)
Robin Lorenson and I photographed three different supercells across southwestern Nebraska. Our target was Ogallala to Sidney to Julesburg, which allowed us to hang around Ogallala for the better part of the afternoon along with Matt Crowther, Scott Bell, and Dave Blanchard. The first supercell we photographed was a high based well-sculpted “cinnamon swirl” supercell updraft as it tracked along I-80 from Brule to just northwest of North Platte before weakening. Robn and I stuck with this a little too long, while Matt Crowther and company broke off sooner in favor of new development back toward Julesburg, CO. Matt’s decision to break off that initial storm paid off, as they managed to get fantastic images of the 2nd supercell that tracked south of Ogallala. Robin and I caught the last glimpses of the supercell structure just after sunset from a viewing point a couple miles east-southeast of Elsie, NE. Matt and Scott joined us at this location and we watched a 3rd supercell track basically along the same track as supercell #2. There was just enough remaining twilight for my Nikon D3 to take advantage of, so I set it up on the tripod and shot continuous 5-second exposures of lightning illuminated structure… beautiful bell-shaped updraft with a wonderful convective top above. This was just a beautiful sight!! A very rewarding day on the high plains with the storms essentially to ourselves as all the other chasers targeted much farther east with little in the way of results.
June 6, 2009
Sunset supercell north of Grant, NE
Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
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Intercepting sunset supercell north of Grant, NE
Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
www.robinlorensonphoto.com
660.287.0950
Have been photographing a cinammon swirl supercell updraft along I-80
corridor. We are continuing east as it approaches North Platte, NE. We
noticed new storm development to the west on radar.
Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
www.robinlorensonphoto.com
660.287.0950