{"id":11076,"date":"2014-06-17T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2014-08-16T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T22:16:48","slug":"june-17-2014-butte-county-sd-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/06\/17\/june-17-2014-butte-county-sd-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"June 17, 2014 Butte County, SD, supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our target today was extreme western South Dakota, but, unfortunately, we were starting out on the wrong side of the state.\u00a0 We headed north out of Vermillion to I-90 mid-morning and blasted west on I-90.\u00a0 SPC showed decent tornado chances today, favoring an area near the MT\/SD\/WY triple-point, and along the IA\/MN border.\u00a0 My western\/High Plains bias drew me west, as usual.\u00a0 After a quick lunch in Chamberlain, I stopped near Philip, SD, around mid-afternoon.\u00a0 Our western target area still looked good, but another area, to our south near Merriman, NE, was also looking promising.\u00a0 Chris Gullikson and I had a little chat as to what to do —- this was decision time.\u00a0 We both decided to continue with Plan A towards Butte and Harding counties in northwest SD.\u00a0 Tornado potential looked a little better there, but low clouds were somewhat slow to clear out in nw SD, which bugged me.<\/p>\n

A nice, big supercell developed right on schedule, near the WY\/MT\/SD triple-point, and we pointed the vans east from Faith for intercept!\u00a0 Things did not go as planned, though —- the darn storm remained stationary for about 2 or 3 hours!\u00a0 This meant that it took longer to get to, and it was spinning over a sparse road network.\u00a0 We tried to find a good spot along U.S. 85 west of Castle Rock to view the structure, but coolish, fast, low-level INFLOW from the east-northeast was often stratus-filled —- yuck!<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, we had occasional decent glimpses at impressive storm structure from about 10 – 15 miles away to the west and southwest.\u00a0 The supercell looked like a great tornado-making candidate, but our view for this was not optimal.\u00a0 Elsewhere today, a supercell or two near Merriman, NE, produced very photogenic tornadoes…and to add even more insult…a fairly stationary supercell produced a large, long-lived tornado not too far from where we started the day, south of Vermillion in northeastern Nebraska.\u00a0 Oh well, every season there is a day or two that you’d like to have back to do over, and today was that day in 2014.<\/p>\n

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