Monday, April 26, 2010

4-23-10 SE Nebraska Chase

We took off from Sioux Center, IA at 7:00AM with a target of Marysville, KS. We arrived in Marysville, KS around noon, grabbed a bite to eat topped off our tanks and reviewed data. The SPC issued a torndao watch to our NW, even though I'm not one to chase "dots" after reviewing the data on the 18z model run we knew we had to run a little NW so we took off and ended up in Geneva, NE we were further south than most chasers, this gave us a great vantage point to see towers shooting up. We decided to head east and ended up in Crete, NE where we sat and watched the major storm to our SE develop. We sat there until it was SVR warned, when it went warned we took off to Lincoln, NE not too long after getting into Lincoln it became Tornado warned, we then flew to the updraft area by Waverly, NE. We did see a wall cloud and a ton of scud action. Overall it was a successful chase with us ending up on the strongest storm in SE NE. Here are some pictures of the event.




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