The feeble, fibrous, cirrus remains of a little orphan anvil (the glaciated part of a disappeared deep-convective updraft) wafted harmlessly downwind and over the northern Nebraska Panhandle. Several of these popped forth from failed storm attempts during the hour and a half I waited here and slightly to the north near the South Dakota line, watching a local convergence maximum not quite be convergent enough. The flat tops of the cumulus humilis in the foreground reveal a story of an area of maximized lift, but too weak to sustained deeper towers. Meanwhile, supercells erupted around 100 miles to my south and north. What saved this chase day from busting was an eruption of mostly elevated convection to the east near sunset, and its beautiful painting of skyscape and landscape.
13 S Chadron NE (27 Jun 23) Looking NW
42.6409, -102.9765