{"id":12679,"date":"2015-06-17T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:11:04","slug":"june-17-2015-black-hills-and-badlands-supercells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2015\/06\/17\/june-17-2015-black-hills-and-badlands-supercells\/","title":{"rendered":"June 17, 2015 Black Hills and Badlands supercells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SPC showed a tornado risk of 5 percent from about Gillette, WY, to Sidney, NE, today. \u00a0A slight risk with a hatched hail area covered much of ne WY, sw SD, and w NE. \u00a0So, it was with some anticipation that we motored north from Ogallala to Alliance this morning. \u00a0After lunch and a stop at Carhenge, we continued north into South Dakota as a storm was organizing over the Black Hills.<\/p>\n

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\"150617_7726_Alliance_NE\"<\/a> \"150617_7725_Alliance_NE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A mesoscale discussion was issued for the region around 3:30 p.m., and a severe thunderstorm watch an hour or two later.<\/p>\n

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SPC Mesoscale Discussion 1051<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the Black Hills storm organized and rotated south of Rapid City towards highway 79, we watched from a high spot to its south.<\/p>\n

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\"150617_7732_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a> \"150617_7737_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a> \"150617_2314_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A lowering seemed to scrape the ground, but I did not see any good, organized low-level rotation with it. \u00a0The updraft was spinning hard, though, and in order to stay with the supercell we jumped on Highway 40 from Hermosa and headed southeastward. \u00a0I found a high spot off of the highway which afforded a splendid view of the storm!<\/p>\n

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\"150617_7741_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a>\"150617_7746_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a>\"150617_7751_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a>\"150617_7755_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a>\"150617_7765_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The cell was getting an LP look, and continued to sport a fine wall cloud. \u00a0From here the road network kind of deteriorated as the cell drifted into the Badlands. \u00a0I thought that we might have a great photo opportunity with the supercell over the Badlands, so we continued to the southeast on 40 towards Red Shirt. \u00a0Near there we stopped again to look at the storm, and it was going down the tubes quickly. \u00a0Bummer.<\/p>\n

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\"150617_7768_Hermosa_SD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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We tried to salvage the day by going after new, strong stuff near the SD\/NE border to our south. \u00a0 Near Oglala, SD, we stopped near sunset to photograph some impressive convection against the South Dakota sky. \u00a0One big updraft was to our WSW, another was to our SSE, and a couple of others were to our east. \u00a0And, zillions of bugs were all around us and we were suffering immensely just by being outside. \u00a0The air was still and this was about the worst I have ever experienced, bug-wise! \u00a0Anyhow, I did manage to get some pretty shots.<\/p>\n

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  SPC showed a tornado risk of 5 percent from about Gillette, WY, to Sidney, NE, today. \u00a0A slight risk with a hatched hail area… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-62","7":"category-lightning","8":"category-sunsets-and-storms","9":"category-supercells","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12705,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}