Start/Ogallala, NE
End/Holyoke, CO
Lunch at Dix, NE D&B Diner
With moderate northwest flow aloft continuing above weak upslope flow on the High Plains, supercells and large hail appeared to be a good bet again in and around the Cheyenne Ridge this afternoon and evening. Like yesterday, moisture was just a bit too meager to allow much of a tornado chance. We found some convection by mid-afternoon in Weld County, near Keota. It was high based and not very strong. We went up to Kimball and saw much the same; it seemed to be a bit of a mess of weak storms. I decided to head east on I-80 to regroup and to get into better air. At about this time a downburst with 90 mph winds impacted a spot two miles north of Kimball, according to reports. We missed that.
New updrafts beckoned towards Sterling, so we headed that way from Sidney. Again, the storms were rather high-based and unimpressive. These dragged us to U.S. 385, and south of Holyoke a bit. A little after sunset, the activity perked up a little and we watched a couple of severe cells drift towards Nebraska.
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