March 23 - Storm Chase by Benjamin Tillotson
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4:25pm
We had our first chase of the season yesterday. We saw some severe storms in Kansas heading NE at about 1:30 pm so we headed east of Kearney to intercept them.
Small shelf cloud near Aurora.
This is the first time we used GRlevel3 radar for chasing and it was very nice. The GPS hookup with it is very nice. I don't think we could have chased some of these storms without it.
This storm near Seward had a tornado warning but I don't know if it ever produced one. It looked kind of hopeful as it got closer to Seward but once it got north of town we couldn't keep up since the storm was moving at an insane 75mph and the only option was gravel roads.
We decided to head for a new tornado warning south of Lincoln. This supercell reportedly produced several tornado's and was the most damaging storm in the area. We never saw any tornado's but the storm had some cool structure.
North of Lincoln
There were a lot of close lightning bolts at this point and we wanted to get the tripod out and take some long exposures but it was moving fast so we didn't really have time.
