Wesley Luginbyhl, Curtis McDonald and Daniel Betten were among the handful of storm chasers who were able to document a tornado from the incredible supercell in Cherry Co, Nebraska on Monday! The storm raged over south-central South Dakota and the north-central Nebraska sandhills for most of Monday evening, with powerful inflow winds and damaging hail causing extremely treacherous conditions; on radar it exhibited very impressive characteristics as well -- at one point a velocity couplet was registering over 130 knts of gate-to-gate shear! Luckily the storm was over mostly rural areas the entire time, so damage was isolated.

The active severe weather pattern continues today across a large part of the south-central US and in the mid-Atlantic states into southern New England. Again, practically all modes of severe weather will be possible! An area of convection in southern Nebraska and northern Kansas is currently progressing generally southeast and may develop into a more threatening MCS over MO and KS. More storms are likely later today in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. In the northeast, storms are already beginning to fire and will continue to increase in coverage as the afternoon progresses, bringing the risk for damaging winds and large hail with a limited tornado threat.