Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
www.robinlorensonphoto.com
660.287.0950
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June 6, 2009
Monitoring CU development NW of Julesburg, CO
Heading west towards towers by Kimball, Nebraska.
Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
www.robinlorensonphoto.com
660.287.0950
Chase Acct: June 5, 2009 (Southern NE Panhandle)
This is very brief with a more detailed account to be written later on next week. My chase partner Robin Lorenson and I left Salina, KS about 8:45am for a target somewhere around Sidney, NE to Sterling, CO. We missed the La Grange, Wyoming 25-minute tornado event by about 30 minutes. We were simply late. Other storm chasers had the same fate as I’m finding out (including Bill Hark, who we chewed the fat with for probably too long in retrospect in Sterling!! 
It was great to catch up with you again though, Bill!). However many others were not late, who were already up along I-80 in the early afternoon — including Vortex-2. Some fine High Plains storm photography, though, ensued as we followed the supercell as it evolved over the next several hours from south of Harrisburg to north of Dalton to southwest of Oshkosh by late-evening twilight. Below are a few images from this chase:
June 5, 2009
chase has ended for the day
Robin and I managed to photograph a very beautiful supercell across
the southern Nebraska panhandle. Even though we missed the tornado
this storm produced earlier in the afternoon, this was a very fun and
rewarding chase. We managed to get fairly close to a very wild
rotating cloud mass northwest of Dalton shortly after there was a
storm merger. I thought for sure tornadogenesis was imminent on a
couple occasions, especially with the cloud bases so low. In fact,
there was a broad dusty circulation we noted which very well could
have been a brief, broad/weak tornado. We are going to be staying in
Ogallala, NE tonight. Tomorrow’s target is still uncertain with a
number of different options possible. -Mike U with Robin L.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
WOW structure!!
HP supercell NE of sidney nebr
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
Giant circulation!!!
Robin Lorenson
Robin Lorenson Photography
www.robinlorensonphoto.com
660.287.0950
Redeveloping supercell updraft structure
Looking north from 10 N Potter NE
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
Update from the field 2330 UTC
Robin and I are watching the initial supercell weaken quite a bit to
our NNW, however a new updarft is developing rapidly to our WNW. We
are sitting on a farm road about 10 NNW of Kimball. We missed the
long-lived tornado by 30-45 minutes or so. We were just too late to
the storm. Matt Crowther reported observing the tornado for some 25
minutes. Can’t wait to see his images. We will sit here at our spot
until it becomes clear we need to make a move. As we were driving
into Kimball, though, we probably caught a glimpse of the last stage
of the tornado way off on the horizon some 30 miles away to our
northwest. We have no image documentation of this though. More later
as time permits.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
Classic supercell updraft and wall cloud
Looking nw from about 10 nnw of kimball,ne
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)