{"id":10406,"date":"2013-05-29T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2014-03-01T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T06:37:12","slug":"may-29-2013-howard-county-ne-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2013\/05\/29\/may-29-2013-howard-county-ne-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 29, 2013 Howard County, NE supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our group departed Ogallala late morning, not too far from SPC’s moderate risk area (Broken Bow, NE, south to Quanah, TX).\u00a0 SPC had a 10-percent hatched tornado risk from about Gove, KS, south to Paducah, TX. \u00a0 500mb flow was from the SSW at 50 knots, and moisture was plentiful.\u00a0 I targeted northwest Kansas, and storms were going up nearby when we reached Atwood.\u00a0 These cells were trucking north to NNE very quickly, and they were unable to get really strong.\u00a0 By mid-afternoon, we were somewhere north of McCook, NE, staring southwest to west at a disappointing line of junk.\u00a0 There may have been embedded rotating updrafts, but this was neither photogenic nor fun to chase.<\/p>\n

With plenty of daylight remaining, I decided to blast east to get into some sunshine and uncontaminated air.\u00a0 Three hours later, we were north of Grand Island, with a tornado-warned supercell to our northwest.\u00a0 We came up to it near Cotesfield in Howard County, and witnessed a fairly impressive wrap-up with good cloud motions.\u00a0 But, the cell was moving quickly to the northeast, and our road network was working against us.\u00a0 After a brief and futile attempt to stay close to the rainy and now messy storm, we dropped south to another one that was coming at us.\u00a0 This one was a dud, and we called it a chase and headed south to Hastings for the night.\u00a0 The four images below are of the Cotesfield area activity.\u00a0 Apparently the tornadic storms of the day were not too far east of Grand Island, and SPC’s tornado forecast did not amount to much.<\/p>\n

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