Over the hills and through the dales, to the supercell we go. South-central Nebraska’s rolling greenery, away from the nearby Platte River Valley, offered a pleasing foreground for this beautiful yet menacing sky. The storm’s obvious outflow dominance signaled that little to no tornadic potential would arise anytime soon. Regardless, it was more than intense enough to force large sheets of boundary-layer air through inversion layers above the cloud-condensation level, and into the middle to upper troposphere, at vertical velocities exceeding the fastest skyscraper elevators, and at scales dwarfing any grain elevator.
9 NNW Gibbon NE (7 Jun 24) Looking N
40.8592, -98.912