June 21 Update Part 2

Caught a beautiful striated, albeit fairly high based, tornado warned storm near Bassett, Nebraska tonight. It produce two funnels and also had hail to baseball size. Damaged the two vans from it. Then chased a line segment in Cherry county, Nebraska that was a spectacular lightning producer.

Back to Denver tomorrow to get ready for my North Land Lecture Tour.

Roger Hill

June 21

Crazy morning thus far! Intercepted a supercell producing 4.5" diameter hail near White Lake, South Dakota. The storm was spectacular! Now I am waiting for later convection to fire off the Black Hills. Stay tuned!

Roger

June 19

Well, June 19 was certainly an interesting day. I caught a classic supercell near Hoxie, Kansas that tried everything it could to produce a tornado, and failed. Another storm developed on its flank and that became our new target storm. We were in front of this beast as it morphed into one of the most incredible HP supercells I have ever seen, pummeling us with 4" diameter hail, high winds and a couple of funnel clouds. I even had a bolt of lightning that struck 100 feet from me. Quite intense.

Today, June 20, I am off to Valentine,Nebraska for what could be a wild afternoon of severe weather.

Roger Hill

Update, June 14

After a quiet few days, this past two days have been pretty exciting. We caught a briefly tornadic supercell near Murdo, SD on Tuesday, June 12th. A truncated cone funnel developed south of I-90 and briefly touched down as it approached the interstate. June 13th had some promise in the southern plains, and after a VERY VERY long drive to north central Oklahoma, we intercepted a tornadic supercell in Major county. We had to drive through one of the most intense cores I have ever driven through! We caught one tornado and a couple funnel clouds.

Today, Thursday, we will chase in the Red River area before heading back to Denver tomorrow.

Roger