I am in Ogallala, Nebraska with Jim Leonard, Mike Theiss, and the Cyclone Tours. I’ll be chasing with them for the couple remaining days of my vacation. Looks like an interesting day in Southwestern South Dakota atop the upper ridge. Decent deep layer baroclinicity with adequate (yet still meager) moisture for supercells. Even though the 500mb winds will be fairly weak ~20 to 30 knots, a look at the forecast hodograph for the area reveals good length thanks to strong low level flow. The NAM shows a nice looking curved hodograph with a deviant storm motion of southeast at less than 10 knots. Storms should develop in the Rapid City vicinity and this is where we’ll be heading. Thursday (June 8th) looks like the same general area.
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June 7, 2006
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