I’ll try and make this brief, since I need to do a forecast for today’s chase. We are in Dickinson, ND this Saturday morning. We left Gillette, WY yesterday afternoon and followed high based, non-severe storms from the Belle Fourche area north to near the North Dakota state border south of Dickinson. There just wasn’t enough moisture to sustain good, organized severe storms/supercells. It was pretty much a bust, for I thought we’d at least see a picturesque supercell. Oh well. My website is currently having some issues, and I’m lucky to get this blog update out, if I can. I’ll try and post pictures soon if the site can come back alive.
Today (Day 5), we are targetting an area between here and Bismarck it appears. The RUC breaks out storms in this area along a stationary front extending southwest to northeast across ND… from a deep surface low over Wyoming. Unclear what kind of storms we’ll be dealing with, but there’ll be higher CAPE today.
Here are some photos from yesterday’s chase:
