The next morning began extremely early as the two target areas in consideration were pretty far away from Watertown, SD. After deciding on a target of Eastern Nebraska, the team set off on I-29 once again for another lengthy drive. The team arrived at the target area early for the second day in a row, which allowed the team to have some downtime while waiting for convective initiation.
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| The team killing time on a hill north of Lincoln, NE. |
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| There were strong surface winds gusting at high as 33 mph at times. |
Once convection initiated, the team immediately went into collection mode on storms west of Wahoo, NE. Already experiencing a barrage of computer problems, my afternoon got a little worse as I found myself stuck behind several locals and other chasers. This impeded my progress enough to allow the hailcore from another cell south of our initial storm to overtake me and collection 1 on our east/west road. After surviving several uncomfortably close CG lightning strikes and some questionable driving from those around us, we were able to clear the hailcore just as the meso was approaching our east/west road. After continuing another 3 miles east to get further ahead of the core, I found myself underneath the meso just as a gustnado spun up just east of my north road option.
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| A rather well defined but brief gustnado crossing my east/west road. Image taken by the dash cam. |
Distance: 2,181 miles
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