The storm continued to exhibit non-supercell characteristics as it rolled south-southeast at 5:00pm. We found this nice scenic view on Hamlet Road just north of Hamlet, NE (40.411666, -101.223078) as we continued south on county dirt roads. I managed to capture one cloud-to-ground flash, which I cropped to a panoramic 3:1 image as shown here in Image #3
Time around 4:45pm CDT as we stopped briefly for structure shots looking to the west. The storm was taking on more precipitation in the rear-flank. A tall precipitation shaft was also rather cool to see to the northeast of the aforementioned rear-flank precip. Location west of Hayes Center (40.5107002,-101.2119980)
This particular stopping location was halfway between Hwy 61
and 25, due east of Imperial, NE (40.5318909,-101.2875977) looking almost due west. Dual
precipitation cores were noted, which provided for some interesting
shots.. including a rainfoot on the northern rain shaft.
A little bit further south than the previous shooting location (40.6283913,-101.2885971), Jay and I observed the storm wrap some rain curtains in a developing rear-flank downdraft region of the storm. A few attempts at funnel cloud wannabes were observed. Cloud-to-ground lightning was frequent enough in the forward flank downdraft/downshear anvil region of the storm to attempt at some Lightning-trigger shots, with one good frame and one better CG that barely caught the right edge of a frame in another shot.
This sequence of images was from 3:42pm to 3:57pm CDT looking west from a location about 9 miles south of Highway 23 and 7 miles west of Highway 25 southeast of Grant, Nebraska (40.6985016,-101.2869034). Jay and I found this nice overlook at a county road intersection watching the outflow scud forming at ground level and lifting up into the strong updraft of the developing supercell storm.
Awesome supercell structure looking west-northwest near West Point, NE...
The storm never produced a tornado, despite the significant amount of
rotation. This shot is handheld from in the car as a substantial amount of
anvil lightning was occuring very close to me. Not too long after this
image, the structure of the storm started to wane as storms to the south
merged with the supercell... ultimately leading to its demise.
