Yesterday, around the Kansas City metro area, we finally got some much needed rain. Severe thunderstorms developed in a north-south oriented line from Omaha down to just west of KC. Surprisingly, a few miles to the west of Omaha, one of the storms was capable of producing funnel clouds and even a brief stretched rope [...]
Tonights beautiful display of lightning was prompted by an MCS that made its way out of south-central Nebraska and pushed a fairly windy and strong gust front ahead of it. This gust front (or outflow boundary) was the triggering mechanism needed to get a few summertime pop-up CB’s (cumulonimus a.k.a thunderstorm clouds). Along with these [...]
It was a long drive that seemed to fly by as I drove up. A triple point setup was in the making and I was targeting an area between Aberdeen and Watertown, SD. Storms fired around 5:00pm CDT and exploded upwards. From initiation to tornado warned, it had to have been less than one hour. [...]
