Started the day in Spearfish with a series of choices:
play central North Dakota, east-central South Dakota, or hedge south toward the Nebraska Panhandle. After much hand-wringing, we picked the latter target. After the scenic drive through the eastern
Black Hills/Plains interface, we lunched at a park with take-out from at tasty
BBQ restaurant in Chadron. After lunch, we shifted south toward
Hemingford, where we hung out for a bit and watched explosive convection to our northwest. We moved west of Hemingfird and perched on a stunning ridgeline overlooking a beautiful valley amidst the Sand Hills in the foreground, and nearly stationary convection in the background. The
severe storms produced a number of circulations, but the low-level flow was lacking. After watching the storm from the same spot for nearly an hour, we moved east as it became outflow dominant. We stopped west of Hemingford and took in a wonderful skyscape, keeping an eye on a nice circulation to our northwest … alas, outflow was well ahead of the rotation. The storm then became a big, dusty guster. We moved southeast, snagging some pics of
Carhenge and the storm. We let this first complex go, and turned our attention to new convection developing north of I-80 in the far southern Panhandle. As we waited for a pilot car on a one-lane road, we got a wonderful view of a beautiful vault from a maturing supercell. This eventually died, and we moved south again to intercept another supercell. The last supercell of the day was a stunning LP bathed in oranges as the sun set. It was a beautiful and grand end for a somewhat marginal ingredient day. Overnighted in Ogallala.
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| Exploding convection west of Hemingford. |
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| Storm wraps up, but undercut by outflow. |
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| Stitch of 7-8 images west of Hemingford. |
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| Nice view of vault on second supercell after getting through the construction/pilot car south of Alliance. |
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| Group takes in the LP north of Sidney. |
Series of lapses from stills.
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