Yet another late night which will be followed by an early morning tomorrow as we overnight here in Walnut Iowa. Our original target for today was to be southeastern Kansas and we actually motored south from Salina this morning until a new Storm Prediction Center forecast was issued at 11 a.m. CDT. That, and a bright blue sky with no clouds caused us to swap ends and caravanned northward to southern Nebraska. We found an outflow boundary from earlier storms and parked underneath it in along a quiet country lane with no other chasers anywhere in sight to wait.
As things percolated a storm finally went up just to our north and we gave chase to what eventually became a tornado warned cell. We saw mean looking rotating wall clouds, a funnel or two (one could have been a tornado but we didn't confirm debris under it), and some very large hail. I'll post photos as soon as Blogger decides to behave. Meanwhile check out the photos that I'm sure will be on the Hokie Stormchase FB page.
Tomorrow's target: north-central Illinois.
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