Unusual in such close proximity, two high-based, low-precipitation (LP) supercells drift across the western Nebraska sky in opposing stages of marginal supercellular organization, as if ships of vapor passing in the daylight. The right (northern) storm, small and shrinking, had been the first, but no longer produced noticeable rain, and would be mere wisps of remnant cloud material within another half hour. It was supplanted by the newer storm at left that vigorously grew, expanded its updraft, and offered its earliest visual and radar evidence of storm-scale rotation. Though quite road-sparse (only two viable east options for 50 of the miles between Harrison and Mitchell, both dirt) the rolling hills of the western Nebraska Panhandle make a magnificent platform for storm observing, when action is close enough.
17 S Agate NE (19 Jun 10) Looking WSW
42.19, -103.8006Two LPs
Unusual in such close proximity, two high-based, low-precipitation (LP) supercells drift across the western Nebraska sky in opposing stages of marginal supercellular organization, as if ships of vapor passing in the daylight. The right (northern) storm, small and shrinking, had been the first, but no longer produced noticeable rain, and would be mere wisps of remnant cloud material within another half hour. It was supplanted by the newer storm at left that vigorously grew, expanded its updraft, and offered its earliest visual and radar evidence of storm-scale rotation. Though quite road-sparse (only two viable east options for 50 of the miles between Harrison and Mitchell, both dirt) the rolling hills of the western Nebraska Panhandle make a magnificent platform for storm observing, when action is close enough.
17 S Agate NE (19 Jun 10) Looking WSW
42.19, -103.8006