April 22:
This looked like a good cold core low set up. An occluded boundary extended from northeast, KS northwest to a surface low north of Beatrice, but no storms formed even with good convergence and MLCAPE near 2,000 J/KG.
Supercell: 0
Tornado: 0
Chased with Nancy.
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June 6:
Drove from Kansas City to Southwest SD. We made it northeast of the Bad Lands and watched 30 miles to our SW produced a tornado for about 20 minutes. We go on a second supercell across far southwest SD.
Supercell: 2
Tornado: 1
Chased with David Gold and SLT’s MC tour.
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June 7:
We watched a linear line of supercells develop southwest of Albert Lea, MN. The tail end of the line of storms became an HP supercell. We drove south and saw a nice supercell southeast of Iowa City that had a rotating wall cloud. This storm became an HP supercell.
Supercells: 2
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and SLT’s MC tour.
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June 10:
Intercepted 2 HP supercells near Winner, SD. Shortly after the two HP storms began to merge a big squall line developed.
Supercells: 2
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and the SLT’s MC tour.
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June 11:
Intercepted a high based supercell near Heling, ND. We dropped south to another high based supercell near Meadow, SD.
Supercells: 2
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and SLT’s MC tour.
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June 12:
Tried to play a line of storms in south central SD, with the northern storm taking on supercell characteristics. Once it became outflow dominate we gave up chasing and went to Wall Drug.
Supercell: 1
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and SLT’s MC tour.
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June 14:
We stayed ahead of the dryline hoping that a storm would develop across west central ND. We were giving up driving Towards southeast ND, then we saw a storm explode to our west. So we turned around and went west to watch a nice LP supercell. A wall cloud formed and was rotating before the storm started to weaken after sunset. The Mosquitos were just horrible. Swarms of thousands of mosquitoes would land on you outside of the van and then 100s of mosquitoes got into the van and bit everyone on our drive to the motel.
Supercell: 1
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and the SLT’s MC tour.
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June 15:
We watched a storm go up in northwest IA and then it turned into an HP supercell. We followed it for about 10 miles but threw in the towel since we were all sick of watching HP storms and the low-level vertical windshear was so marginal there would not be any chance for tornadoes. So we left to have dinner at the Harrah’s resort in northwest MO.
Supercell: 1
Tornado: 0
Chased with David Gold and SLT.
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Overall this was a disappointing chase season with a slow start and the few good days I had to work. We had split flow across the plains during the MC tour where southern stream systems stole the good deep moisture return. After the distant tornado on the first day the MC tour, the remainder of the tour was dreadful. The pattern probably brought and end to the MC tour since both Dave and I could not justify wasting so much time chasing junk storms.
Supercells: 11
Tornadoes: 1
Bill’s count 108.