| Upon finishing a mid
shift early this morning, I was off for five days and amazingly the pattern
during this time would support storm chasing. I needed to drive to
at least the Black Hills today for some chance of seeing decent storms.
I was disappointed to find extensive
mid level clouds engulfing much of western SD by late morning, so after
getting a satellite and sfc obs update I shot east on I-90 to Kadoka where
better insolation was in place. I later traveled south on HWY 73
to HWY 18 and watched an outflow boundary and sfc trough in far northern
NE light up a few Cu. This photo shows the boundary in the distance
with some photogenic fragmented cirrus.
A soft Cb popped ~120mi to my south
and later a much stronger Cb (later SVR near Faith) erupted north by about
the same distance. Great, I had targeted in between two zones of
initiation--never a reassuring feeling! I debated dropping into NE,
but some stout Mdt Cu farther west along the Black Hills caught my eye
so I shot west and hoped they'd organize. |