06.08.22
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A race against time 6/7

With a new Windshield fitted on Tuesday we were back on the hunt for some twisty winds! With Nebraska in our sights we were on the road again!

Leaving Garden City Kansas we headed North to Nebraska where there was a good risk of isolated supercells forming and sustaining themselves throughout the evening.

By 4pm we had our target storm, and we’re in position ahead of it.

The storm was moving consistently South East but at around 40 mph so staying on this storm was going to be tricky. The game of cat and mouse was on

The base of the storm
The lowering wall cloud, if a tornado was going to form this is where it would be
A tornado warning popped up mid photo!
A brief dusty tornado was reported while we were observing
Our view of the storm while it was tornado warned. There was lots of rotation and several times it looked like a Tornado was about to emerge.
Clouds kept dropping down from the base of the storm that looked very much like the beginning of a tornado, but nothing quite got going.

With Storm moving so quickly there were few opportunities to stop and take photos, the following time-lapse videos show the chase, including some pretty intense winds kicking up dust as we zig zagged South and East to try and keep up.

The storm as it’s about to cross the road ahead of us.
A rainbow forming from the rain in the core of the storm ahead
The sky was angry and turbulent, but no Tornados for us today
The sun highlighting a new updraft forming at the back of our storm
Sunset on another day

An exhilarating chase thst tooks is across 3 ststes trying to keep up with this fast moving storm. Not the most photogenic of storms but certainly an exciting chase.

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