Today has been reasonably quiet across much of the plains. One storm had a tornado warning on it, but this was the remnants of yesterday's monster drifting across Louisiana. We decided to leave this one as it was never going to be as impressive as yesterday, would send us in the wrong direction for where we wanted to be the next few days and apparently the terrain is far from ideal for chasing. As a result we've spent the day in north west Nebraska chasing a very slowing moving line of multi cellular storms. A couple of cells had severe warnings on for a time but never for particularly long.
One of the good things about this system was the clearly defined outflow boundary that was visible on radar. So we ended up spending a large part of the day playing with that. It was really cool to feel the wind change from being warm and rushing into the storm to suddenly changing direction and feeling very cold as it rushed out of the storm. Sadly we could only do this for so long, as the road network in this part of the world is far from ideal with very few routes to choose from.
Radar sweep showing the MCS and the outflow boundary
With the storm back building we headed south on one of the few roads available to us in that direction and were able to get some pretty cool photos, especially with the sun setting. Eventually as the sun dipped further west we were blessed with a beautiful sunset and a rainbow, all framed with the constant flash of cloud to ground lightning.
We're now heading north ready for tomorrow, with the storm providing its final breaths of lightning. After the devastation of this time yesterday it feels strangely idyllic and except from the wind noise of the car, extremely peaceful.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring, hopefully another decent day!
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