2000 Chase Highlights
May 29
June 3
July 8
| On this day we found ourselves East of a
powerful line of large cells. The southernmost cell was to our west and it took on a triangular appearance.(#2 & 3)
We tried to get to North Platte
but the trip down was just too risky with the rain core moving in
rapidly from the west.(#4) We got near the notch of the Southern
storm but it never showed signs of rotation. To the southwest there was a wall cloud that began to sweep up dust off the farm fields.(#5); We raced to Grand
Island as massive amounts of dust were sucked into the storm from
miles ahead of us as the storm followed.(#6) A wild chase. |
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| After a long
drive up to South Dakota we encountered several small storms that
seemed to display supercell characteristics but only #1 became
intense enough to cause a warning, the storm weakened by the time we
encountered it. We saw a few other nice storms near rapid
city(#2 to 4) |
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| We drove up to Eau Claire, Wisconsin on a day with enormous CAPE hoping to catch storms that were under a tornado watch. After sunset we encountered a supercell to our north that displayed the most spectacular lightning show I have ever witnessed (#7 & 8). We also witnessed a lightning bolt that came up from the ground (below the Gallery viewer). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sometimes lightning comes up from the ground! |
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