Chasecation 2013 Day 8 - Black Hills Magic

We’ve been doing a lot of driving for not seeing tornadoes this week, though we have been on some good storms in the meantime. Hoping that the Black Hills produces for us today, and we may even end up in southeastern Montana for tomorrow’s storms.

Yesterday put us on a supercell north of Goodland, KS and up into Nebraska, which looked nice at times but had a high base throughout its life cycle. We got somewhat close to a tornado-warned storm in southern Nebraska after the first storm, but the road network was not favorable and it was after dark, so after some lightning shots we bailed to the north for the night.

Here’s what the first cell looked like at it was dropping 1.75″ hail to the north:

One of these days I’ll get more stuff from Ian and James to post on here. We’ve just been getting in late in recent days and have been too exhausted to do much after getting into the hotel. With next week looking fairly active, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting a down day any time soon.