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<\/a><\/p>\nApril 26 ^<\/strong><\/a> This San Angelo supercell was quite healthy, and was a great start to the chase season.\u00a0 Nighttime brought excellent CGs for the CCDs.<\/p>\n May 1 ^<\/strong><\/a> HP fun in southeast Kansas, without the tornado muss and fuss.<\/p>\n May 3 ^<\/strong><\/a> Balloon launches at NWS FTW on a down day<\/p>\n May 4 ^<\/strong><\/a> The Hollis Bridge of Doom almost gets its sandy revenge<\/p>\n May 5 ^<\/strong><\/a> This supercell sent softball-sized hail hurtling earthward upon the citizenry and infrastructure of Garden City, Kansas…no doubt resulting in a negative impact on a garden or two.\u00a0 Bruiser wouldn’t have it any other way.<\/p>\n May 6 ^<\/strong><\/a> The Texas Panhandle finds itself beneath convective bliss<\/p>\n May 7 ^<\/strong><\/a> The Red River of the South is privy to severe storms.<\/p>\n May 8 ^<\/strong><\/a> A beautiful supercell in western Kansas has its way with Jetmore.<\/p>\n May 9 ^<\/strong><\/a> An isolated supercell treks across the central High Plains, but cool outflow greatly minimizes tornado potential, sparing dozens from harmful winds.<\/p>\n May 10 ^<\/strong><\/a> Images of the long-track Picher, OK, tornado obscured by precipitation.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n May 13 ^<\/strong><\/a> A cell north of Mineral Wells, TX, amused us for an hour.<\/p>\n May 14 ^<\/strong><\/a> A strange-looking LP near San Angelo is followed up by a beast, at a town named Brady.<\/p>\n May 15 ^ <\/strong><\/a> A nicely-sculpted Mexican HP cell fails to produce proper I.D. and forges into Texas, at Eagle Pass.<\/p>\n May 17 ^<\/strong><\/a> Death Valley was not convenient for Death Ridge adventures, so we visited Big Bend.<\/p>\n May 20 ^ <\/strong><\/a> It’s great to be back on the Cheyenne Ridge!\u00a0 A beautiful, isolated storm put on a colorful display at sunset.<\/p>\n May 21 ^<\/strong><\/a> Who cares about this day?\u00a0 The good stuff is fast approaching.<\/p>\n May 22 ^ <\/strong><\/a> Tornadoes at last!\u00a0 A tornado-crazy supercell skirted Grainfield, Hoxie, and Dresden, Kansas.<\/p>\n May 23 ^<\/strong><\/a> In southwest KS, a very strong tornadic supercell bisected Clark County and took aim on Greensburg.<\/p>\n May 24 ^ <\/strong><\/a> A plethora of tornadoes was observed with this isolated supercell near Enid and Perry, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n May 25 ^<\/strong><\/a> We fiddled around with some mildly interesting Kansas storms and missed the biggie at Parkersburg, Iowa.<\/p>\n May 26 ^<\/strong><\/a> Storm chaser error:\u00a0 I abandoned the Pratt storm prior to tornado development.<\/p>\n May 27 ^<\/strong><\/a> What makes a storm go mad?\u00a0 Certainly it was not the conditions on this fine day in OK.<\/p>\n May 28 ^<\/strong><\/a> We deemed this a positioning day into Nebraska for the following day, and visited Monument Rocks in western Kansas.<\/p>\n May 29 ^<\/a><\/strong> Our tour was on the Kearney, Nebraska, tornadic storm like white on rice.<\/p>\n May 30 ^<\/strong><\/a> The atmosphere made chasers in southeast Kansas wait all day before doing what it is supposed to do.<\/p>\n June 7 ^<\/strong><\/a> A very entertaining and photogenic supercell produced a slender tornado near Downs, Kansas.<\/p>\n June 9-10 ^<\/strong><\/a> Junky storms in NE and SD with Dallas Raines and company<\/p>\n June 11 ^<\/strong><\/a> Storms were bunched up in NW Iowa, and we found one near Ashton which looked to be briefly tornadic.<\/p>\n June 12 ^<\/strong><\/a> Severe storms near Emporia, Kansas, were wet and messy.<\/p>\n June 13 ^<\/strong><\/a> An electric updraft gave our shutters a workout in southwest Oklahoma on this evening.<\/p>\n June 14 ^<\/strong><\/a> A supercell trekked southward through the Palo Duro Canyon area, and another storm after sunset sparked enough to make lightning photographers out of us all.<\/p>\n June 15 ^<\/strong><\/a> A healthy and wicked updraft base in Beaver County, Oklahoma, produced some dusty spinups.<\/p>\n June 16 ^<\/strong><\/a> We played upslope and lost in northeast NM, and wandered around Solano.<\/p>\n June 17 ^<\/strong><\/a> New Mexico did a little better than the previous day, but that’s not saying much.<\/p>\n June 18 ^<\/strong><\/a> Tornadoes continued to be in short supply this June.\u00a0 A nicely-sculpted storm north of Kearney called it a day as we approached.<\/p>\n June 19 ^<\/strong><\/a> Numerous cells along I-80 in the Nebraska Panhandle posed for us.<\/p>\n June 20 ^ <\/strong><\/a> A pretty CB reaches for the tropopause east of Littleton, CO, on a non-chase day.<\/p>\n June 21 ^ <\/strong><\/a>Jailhouse and Courthouse Rocks were emitting some sort of magic atmospheric stabilizer dust, effectively producing fair conditions in the Panhandle.<\/p>\n June 22 ^ <\/strong><\/a> This anti-cyclonically rotating updraft near Alliance, Nebraska, might look normal to you Aussie chasers.<\/p>\n June 23 ^<\/strong><\/a> A Sand Hills supercell that actually closely parallels a paved road!\u00a0 There is a God!<\/p>\n June 24 ^<\/strong><\/a> This amazing sunset in Corson County, South Dakota, was broadcast in living color.\u00a0 Go ahead—click on the “June 24” link—it’s only five bucks.<\/p>\n June 26 ^<\/strong><\/a> Thedford, Nebraska, had the pleasure of our presence on several occasions on this chase day.\u00a0 One cell north of town was a laminar-sided delight.<\/p>\n June 27 ^ <\/strong><\/a> Some weak activity in western Kansas was not good enough to aim the camera at…and never end a sentence with a preposition.<\/p>\n June 28 ^<\/strong><\/a> Back to the Old 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